{"id":47367,"date":"2024-06-28T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=47367"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:29:40","slug":"anders-foldager-maintains-hold-of-race-lead-at-okolo-slovenska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/anders-foldager-maintains-hold-of-race-lead-at-okolo-slovenska\/","title":{"rendered":"Anders Foldager maintains hold of\u00a0race lead at Okolo Slovenska"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Anders Foldager<\/strong> booked himself and <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong> another day in the race leader\u2019s yellow jersey at <strong>Okolo Slovenska<\/strong> following a hectic finale to stage three.<br>\u00a0<br>A bunch finish was anticipated in Dubnica nad V\u00e1hom, but\u00a0technical roads caused splits in the peloton as the line neared and Julian Alaphilippe made the most of them to attack\u00a0in the final kilometre to win the stage.<br>\u00a0<br>Foldager finished in the chasing pack behind, ensuring he held onto the overall race lead. With two more stages to go, the 22-year-old has an advantage of 10 seconds over Alaphilippe in the general classification.<br>\u00a0<br>Meanwhile, teammate <strong>Mauro Schmid<\/strong>, who debuted his Swiss champion\u2019s jersey during Friday\u2019s stage, sits in third just 13 seconds behind the Danish rider.<br>\u00a0<br>Team Jayco AlUla has led the race since the beginning after a commanding win in the team time trial on the first day. Foldager took over the GC lead\u00a0from his teammate <strong>Max Walscheid<\/strong>, after winning stage two in impressive style.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anders Foldager:<\/span><\/strong><br><em>\u201cThe final today was really tricky and dangerous. I\u2019m happy that I was able to keep the jersey for another day.\u00a0We still have many\u00a0guys\u00a0up\u00a0there in the GC and I hope that we can keep the jersey within the team for the last two stages.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2024 Okolo Slovenska GC after stage 3:<\/span><br><strong>1. Anders Foldager (Team Jayco AlUla) 08:43:23<\/strong><br>2. Julian Alaphilippe +10<br><strong>3. Mauro Schmid (Team Jayco AlUla) +13<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anders Foldager booked himself and Team Jayco AlUla another day in the race leader\u2019s yellow jersey at Okolo Slovenska following a hectic finale to stage three.\u00a0A bunch finish was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47370,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47367\/revisions\/47370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}