{"id":24319,"date":"2019-11-02T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T05:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=24319"},"modified":"2019-11-02T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T05:33:17","slug":"uae-team-emirates-ride-on-the-roof-for-the-dubai-fitness-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/uae-team-emirates-ride-on-the-roof-for-the-dubai-fitness-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Team Emirates Ride On The Roof For The Dubai Fitness Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the excitement continues for the Dubai Fitness Challenge, Emirates invited UAE Team Emirates to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Y-CpAEJgUQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test their riding skills<\/a>\u00a0and performance on the Emirates Group Headquarters rooftop.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the team\u2019s top cyclists and among the top young riders globally &#8211; Alexander Kristoff (ranked 8<sup>th<\/sup>), Tadej Pogacar (ranked 12<sup>th<\/sup>), Diego Ulissi (ranked 13<sup>th<\/sup>) and Jasper Phillipsen (ranked 79<sup>th<\/sup>) circled a purpose built track and even showed off their moves as they pedalled across the track.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates has been supporting UAE Team Emirates since 2017, in an effort to help bring the UAE to the world stage of cycling through competing in UCI World Tour events as well as promoting the UAE as a top level sports and cycling hub.<\/p>\n<p>During the Dubai Fitness Challenge, the Emirates Group has been running a variety of activities, including a full schedule of sporting events and trial classes for employees. The company supports and promotes a culture of health, including almost 40 different sports and hobby clubs already managed and run by Emirates Group employees, ranging from football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, cricket, cycling, rugby, hockey, amongst other sports.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24322\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/500_dsc-3592-731723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/500_dsc-3592-731723.jpg 266w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/500_dsc-3592-731723-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24321\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/500_dsc-3677-186922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/500_dsc-3677-186922.jpg 271w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/500_dsc-3677-186922-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the excitement continues for the Dubai Fitness Challenge, Emirates invited UAE Team Emirates to\u00a0test their riding skills\u00a0and performance on the Emirates Group Headquarters rooftop. Four of the team\u2019s top cyclists and among the top young riders globally &#8211; Alexander Kristoff (ranked 8th), Tadej Pogacar (ranked 12th), Diego Ulissi (ranked 13th) and Jasper Phillipsen (ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24323,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24319\/revisions\/24323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}