{"id":122734,"date":"2026-06-11T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/how-cycling-legends-were-born-eddy-merckx-wins-his-first-grand-tour-in-1968\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:14:53","slug":"how-cycling-legends-were-born-eddy-merckx-wins-his-first-grand-tour-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/how-cycling-legends-were-born-eddy-merckx-wins-his-first-grand-tour-in-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"How cycling legends were born: Eddy Merckx wins his first Grand Tour in 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u2018How do you think you will fare this year when the road goes uphill?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>That was the question posed to a 22-year-old Eddy Merckx by a television reporter before the start of the 1968 Giro d\u2019Italia. Merckx\u2019s answer was simple and understated: \u2018I will try not to lose too much time.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclist.co.uk\/in-depth\/cycling-legends-eddy-merckx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018How do you think you will fare this year when the road goes uphill?\u2019 That was the question posed to a 22-year-old Eddy Merckx by a television reporter before the start of the 1968 Giro d\u2019Italia. Merckx\u2019s answer was simple and understated: \u2018I will try not to lose too much time.\u2019 Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}