{"id":75540,"date":"2016-04-26T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ur-team-cairns-world-cup-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:36:29","slug":"ur-team-cairns-world-cup-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/ur-team-cairns-world-cup-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UR Team: Cairns World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/P6nVTPexhOA<\/p>\n<h3>Tracey, who lives in Cairns, produced a stellar run to claim a fine second place in the womens elite final.<\/h3>\n<p>Cheered on by thousands of fans, the James Cook university student improved by two places on her Rd1 result at Lourdes, France.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mick, whose last 3rd place finish came in 2014, laid down a vintage run, and proved that he still has the pace to live with the very best in the sport. A 3rd place behind reigning World Champion Loic Bruni and fellow countryman Troy Brosnan was jut deserve for such a performance. Mick has also made a spectacular come back on the world cup overall ranking moving up to the 5th place now.<\/p>\n<p>Spurned on by being back in the country he grew up in, Mick stated<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal today was tenth, so anything above that was a bonus, so it\u2019s quite a big bonus,\u201d said Hannah who finished third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started getting a bit excited when I was going fast, I was trying to settle myself down the rest of the way. It was a good run, no major mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Neethling, still building after a horror 2015 showed glimpses of form throughout the weekend and took a 35th place after a poor first sector cost him. It is of note that Andrew was 3rd at the speed trap in finals and continues to build his speed.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Fayolle had an unfortunate crash in training prior to the event and sat out the race &#8211; but he will be back soon and looking to build on his 11th place qualifier at Lourdes.<\/p>\n<p>In the team overall event we claimed a first place &#8211; giving all the staff the chance to stand a world cup podium and showing what strength we have as a squad!<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the team has had a fantastic week in Cairns, enjoying the tropical environment and getting a chance for Mick and Tracey to perform in front of thousands of hyped up, excited fans.<\/p>\n<p>We want to thank all of you for your continued support and allowing us to achieve moments like this.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/P6nVTPexhOA Tracey, who lives in Cairns, produced a stellar run to claim a fine second place in the womens elite final. Cheered on by thousands of fans, the James Cook&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921],"tags":[3979,3968,3953,3947],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101871,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75540\/revisions\/101871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}