{"id":49270,"date":"2025-01-31T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=49270"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:54:20","slug":"%f0%9f%a5%88hatherly-takes-second-on-tough-mountain-day-at-alula-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/%f0%9f%a5%88hatherly-takes-second-on-tough-mountain-day-at-alula-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udd48 Hatherly takes second on tough mountain day at AlUla Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mountain bike world champion <strong>Alan Hatherly<\/strong> put in another sterling performance at the <strong>AlUla Tour<\/strong>, flying to second place on a tough stage four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a summit finish on day two, the fourth stage was another chance for the general classification riders to gain time in the overall standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race exploded on the tough climb to the Skyviews of Harrat Uwairid, which hit gradients of 22%. Hatherly and <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong> teammate <strong>Eddie Dunbar<\/strong> were part of a four-rider group that broke clear on the ascent, along with race leader Tom Pidcock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pidcock attacked on the steepest slopes, gaining a small gap on Hatherly and Dunbar. The two teammates worked well together to close him down over the top of the climb but just ran out of road as the finish line loomed into view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunbar then set up Hatherly perfectly for the finish, with the South African using his fast punch to take second place on the stage and maintain his podium position in the overall classification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Alan Hatherly<\/strong><\/span><br><em>&#8220;I had a badly timed puncture just in the lead into the climb, so it was a bit stressful coming back and moving into position again. Tom [Pidcock] made the climb hard and I just didn\u2019t have the legs. I think Eddie and I worked well together to control the second group and then bag second for the day. It\u2019s been an amazing tour so far and I\u2019m looking forward to wrapping it up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Steve Cummings<\/strong><\/span><br><em>&#8220;Obviously Tom is flying and the guys did everything they could to follow but they didn\u2019t quite have the legs. Alan still won the sprint for second, which was great. It\u2019s another big day tomorrow, and another opportunity to win again.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AlUla Tour stage four results<\/span><br>1. Tom Pidcock 03:09:46<br><strong>2. Alan Hatherly (Team Jayco AlUla) +12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AlUla Tour general classification after stage 4<\/span><br>1. Tom Pidcock 13:54:22<br>2. Rainer Kepplinger +29<br><strong>3. Alan Hatherly (Team Jayco AlUla) +32<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain bike world champion Alan Hatherly put in another sterling performance at the AlUla Tour, flying to second place on a tough stage four. After a summit finish on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49271,"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\/49270"}],"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=49270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49273,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49270\/revisions\/49273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}