{"id":100361,"date":"2025-08-27T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100361\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:29:07","slug":"vingegaard-retakes-vuelta-lead-while-israel-premier-tech-delayed-by-protesters-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100361\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard retakes Vuelta lead while Israel Premier-Tech delayed by protesters | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jonas Vingegaard regained the red jersey after stage five of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> in a dramatic team time trial in which Israel Premier-Tech were delayed by pro-Palestinian protesters on the route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">UAE Team Emirates-XRG won the stage but Visma-Lease a Bike\u2019s second-placed finish allowed Vingegaard to regain the lead from Groupama-FDJ\u2019s David Gaudu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Although team time trials are now quite rare on Grand Tours, the format is making a comeback, with the time for each team considered when the fourth rider crossed the line on the 24.1km stage in Figueres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gaudu was level on time with race favourite Vingegaard after stage four, but the Frenchman took the leader\u2019s red jersey on countback. However, Visma-Lease a Bike turned the tables on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Team Emirates-XRG finished with a time of 25min 26sec, averaging nearly 57 km\/h, while Visma-Lease a Bike finished 8sec behind. Groupama-FDJ could only manage ninth place, 24sec behind.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Premier-Tech\u2019s riders were delayed by protesters during the stage. Photograph: Josep Lago\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Vingegaard now holds an eight-second lead over the Team Emirates-XRG trio of Juan Ayuso, Jo\u00e3o Almeida and Marc Soler. Lidl-Trek\u2019s Giulio Ciccone is 9sec back while Gaudu is 16sec behind in the general classification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israel-Premier Tech were stopped on the road by a group of protesters holding Palestinian flags, with half the team forced to a complete stop before they set off again.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-9\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n<p>Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-9\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The protest cost them several seconds, with the team eventually finishing 19th, 54sec slower than Team Emirates-XRG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard regained the red jersey after stage five of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in a dramatic team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-100361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}