{"id":3708,"date":"2013-01-18T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2013-01-18T07:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T07:13:14","slug":"south-africas-giniel-de-villiers-placed-second-in-dakar-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Giniel de Villiers placed second in Dakar Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3712\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/de_villiers_giniel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3712\" title=\"de_villiers_giniel\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/de_villiers_giniel-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/de_villiers_giniel-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/de_villiers_giniel.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giniel de Villies,during his 2009 win in the Dakar Rally<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frenchmen Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, both hoping to retain their titles in the Dakar Rally, stayed on top of the standings after Thursday&#8217;s 12th stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peterhansel kept his commanding lead in the car category, 50 minutes, 21 seconds ahead of Giniel de Villiers of South Africa and 1:31:06 in front of Joan Roma of Spain. Roma won the stage with American Robby Gordon 4:18 behind in second. With no need to push it, Peterhansel finished in sixth place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With two stages remaining, followed by the podium presentation on Sunday in the Chilean capital Santiago, Peterhansel knows anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Yes, for sure we can smell victory, but I can remember two times when I have lost the Dakar just on the last day, so we know that anything can happen,&#8221; Peterhansel said. &#8220;I could make a mistake, we could have some technical problems. So, there are still two days left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In bikes, Despres was 5:39 ahead of KTM teammate Ruben Faria of Portugal in the standings. Chile&#8217;s Francisco Lopez trails by 13:40. Frans Verhoeven of the Netherlands won the stage, 1:38 ahead of Faria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There are still two days left to race and, on the Dakar, you can be smiling one day and then unfortunate the next day. &#8230; So I&#8217;m saving my smile for when we reach the end of the rally,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For the moment, it&#8217;s going fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchmen Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, both hoping to retain their titles in the Dakar Rally, stayed on top of the standings after Thursday&#8217;s 12th stage. Peterhansel kept his commanding lead in the car category, 50 minutes, 21 seconds ahead of Giniel de Villiers of South Africa and 1:31:06 in front of Joan Roma of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s Giniel de Villiers placed second in Dakar Rally&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[2423,2420,2421,2422],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-cyril-despres","tag-dakar-rally","tag-giniel-de-villiers","tag-stephane-peterhansel"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/de_villiers_giniel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}