{"id":17518,"date":"2012-01-31T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17518"},"modified":"2012-01-31T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:45:05","slug":"us-cyclist-takes-tour-of-the-bahamas-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/us-cyclist-takes-tour-of-the-bahamas-title","title":{"rendered":"US Cyclist Takes Tour of the Bahamas Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17521\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17521\" title=\"bmc-cyclists\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmc-cyclists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmc-cyclists.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmc-cyclists-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bmc-cyclists-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured is a group of cyclists from the BMC Hincapie Team during the 9th Annual Tour of The Bahamas. Ty Magner, from BMC Racing, won the overall title in the Pros 1-2 category with a total time of 4:32.52. Edward Russell III \/ TNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If one was to ask Andy Mapple his reason for returning to the country, he would simply say, \u201cto win the Tour of The Bahamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a seventh overall placing, in the Masters 40-50 division last year, Mapple was determined to come back and capture the division\u2019s title. He knew he would have his hands full, in the stacked field of competitors, so his strategy was to head into Day Two of the 9th Annual Tour of The Bahamas with a comfortable lead, which meant winning the Time Trial and the Mile Circuit Race, both held on Saturday. Mapple\u2019s goal was then to be in the \u201cthick of the race\u201d on Sunday, to ride off to victory.<\/p>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s road race, which was 57 miles, Bahamian resident Lee Farmer crossed the finish line first but Mapple\u2019s time of two hours, 25 minutes and 27 seconds (2:25:27) was good enough to give him the overall title. Mapple, who represented Florida Velo, finished with a combined time of 3:40.22. Darren Fuller of BMC Hincapie Cycling was second overall, in 3:40.40, and Larry Stickler from Kentucky Flyers Cycling, finished third overall, in 3:40.57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Magner, from BMC Racing, won the overall title in the Pros 1-2 category with a total time of 4:32.52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-17518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}