{"id":57408,"date":"2020-10-11T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=57408"},"modified":"2020-10-11T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T02:56:34","slug":"israels-cycling-team-notches-first-ever-stage-win-at-one-of-the-sports-biggest-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/israels-cycling-team-notches-first-ever-stage-win-at-one-of-the-sports-biggest-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s cycling team notches first-ever stage win at one of the sport\u2019s biggest races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 An Israeli professional cycling team won a stage of one of the three major international races for the first time ever on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57409\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57409\" class=\"wp-image-57409 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57409\" class=\"wp-image-57409 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alex-Dowsett-wins-Credit-Bettini-Photos-resize.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-57409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Israel Start-up Nation rider Alex Dowsett crosses the finish line in first place in Stage 8 of the Giro d&#8217;Italia Grand Tour race, Oct. 10, 2020. (Bettini Photos)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alex Dowsett won Stage 8 of the Giro d\u2019Italia for Team Israel Start-Up Nation, which was established in 2015 and joined the highest level of professional cycling only last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Giro d\u2019Italia is one of cycling\u2019s three prestigious Grand Tour races, along with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana.<\/p>\n<p>Dowsett cried after he passed the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the excitement demonstrates that our project has significance beyond sport, it\u2019s showing the true heart of Israel to hundreds of millions of fans around the world. I could not be more proud,\u201d team co-owner Sylvan Adams said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Start-Up Nation made its first appearance in the Giro d\u2019Italia in 2018 when Adams, a Canadian-Israeli real estate magnate,&nbsp;brought&nbsp;the cycling race to Israel for the first three stages, the first time any leg of cycling\u2019s Grand Tour races took place outside of Europe.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israel%E2%80%99s%20cycling%20team%20notches%20first-ever%20stage%20win%20at%20one%20of%20the%20sport%E2%80%99s%20biggest%20races\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[9350,9351,8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57410,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57408\/revisions\/57410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}