{"id":3635,"date":"2016-04-24T04:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajd.elpy.io\/en\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2016-04-24T04:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T02:46:50","slug":"wc-cairns-ruaridh-takes-solid-25th-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/2016\/04\/24\/wc-cairns-ruaridh-takes-solid-25th-place\/","title":{"rendered":"WC Cairns: Ruaridh takes solid 25th place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ruaridh Cunningham<\/strong> had to take the pressure as our only downhill rider in <strong>Cairns<\/strong>, but on this crazy track through the tropical forest that was the last thing on his mind. No snake or spider attack happened on the track walk, so he only had to worry how to get to the finish as fast as possible. He was very fast on top part, know for it&#8217;s super difficult Rock Garden and tricky Alien Tree, however he struggled to find the right flow in the middle and especially bottom part \u2013 the \u00bbflat\u00ab part of the race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what Ruaridh had to say after taking 25th in Cairns:<\/strong> <em>\u201cRace was OK. I\u2019m not super happy with the result, at the same time I\u2019m not disappointed, it\u2019s OK. I\u2019ve been getting the top section good all week, but I\u2019ve never found my groove in the middle and bottom woods. Not a disaster, but I feel I could do better and there are definitely some things to work on before the next one.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bottom part was very flat, with a lot of turns that you couldn\u2019t really lean in to. I just found it very tricky. Because it was flat it was very easy to loose momentum and slightest slip or mistake and you lost a second. I\u2019ve been battling it all week, did couple of mistakes there and I think ultimately this is where I lost time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also adds: <em>\u201c25th on an average day is OK, but I want more.\u201d<\/em> We know he can do much more, and we all look forward to next race that will take place on the home soil in Fort William.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruaridh is now 22nd in the UCI MTB World Cup standings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World Champions <strong>Rachel Atherton<\/strong> and <strong>Loic Bruni<\/strong> were the fastest in Cairns. Racing continues on Sunday with the cross-country event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/62.50.72.82\/uciroot\/wcmtb\/2016\/DH_Results.aspx?id=51183&amp;language=eng&amp;code=FI\" target=\"_blank\">Results on the UCI website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtba.asn.au\/mtbworldscairns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Offical website of the event<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniortoolsteam\" target=\"_blank\">UTT on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Grega Stopar &amp; Urban Feren\u010dak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruaridh Cunningham had to take the pressure as our only downhill rider in Cairns, but on this crazy track through the tropical forest that was the last thing on his mind. No snake or spider attack happened on the track &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/2016\/04\/24\/wc-cairns-ruaridh-takes-solid-25th-place\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3642\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kd-rajd.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}