{"id":106910,"date":"2025-08-30T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106910\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:54:10","slug":"torstein-traeen-keeps-la-vuelta-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106910\/","title":{"rendered":"Torstein Tr\u00e6en Keeps La Vuelta Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Torstein Tr\u00e6en has successfully defended the leader\u2019s jersey after his first day in red, completing Stage 7 of La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, which took the race from Andorra to Cerler over the most mountainous course of this year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n

The 188 km stage featured over 4,400 metres of elevation gain across four categorized climbs, presenting a challenging test for Team Bahrain Victorious, tasked with protecting La Roja while also supporting the squad\u2019s other GC contenders.<\/p>\n

\"\"Vuelta a Espana 2025 \u2013 80th Edition \u2013 7th stage Andorra La Vella \u2013 Cerler. Huesca La Magia 188 km \u2013 29\/08\/2025 \u2013 Jay Vine (AUS \u2013 UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG) \u2013 Torstein Traeen (NOR \u2013 Bahrain \u2013 Victorious) \u2013 Mads Pedersen (DNK \u2013 Lidl \u2013 Trek) \u2013 photo Luis Angel Gomez\/SprintCyclingAgency\u00a92025<\/p>\n

As on the previous day, the stage was shaped by a breakaway that proved decisive. Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG) launched the first attack on the Port del Cant\u00f3, later joined by 11 riders. TBV took responsibility in the peloton, working to keep the gap under control over the Puerto de la Creu de Perves and the Coll de l\u2019Espina, before the decisive final 12 km ascent to Cerler \u2013 Huesca la Magia.<\/p>\n

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On the last climb, Ayuso made his winning move with about 10 km to go, securing a solo victory ahead of Frigo (IPT) and Perna (Ark\u00e9a\u2013B&B Hotels). The GC group, including Tr\u00e6en in red, crossed the line 2\u201935\u201d later, ensuring that the Norwegian would keep the leader\u2019s jersey for another day.<\/p>\n

Tr\u00e6en admitted it was a nerve-wracking but emotional experience defending La Roja:<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s stage was quite emotional for me because I really felt the pressure after seeing how much work my teammates did to keep me in position to defend the jersey. At one point I was really nervous, because I didn\u2019t feel so good, but on the last climb I managed it well. Jack rode super, super good, closing big gaps and big groups. Finlay was excellent too on the climbs, Santi helped me a lot, and then obviously Roman, Mathijs and Nicol\u00f2 were riding like motorbikes when they came back. I\u2019m really proud to have teammates like these.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Vuelta a Espana 2025 \u2013 80th Edition \u2013 7th stage Andorra La Vella \u2013 Cerler. Huesca La Magia 188 km \u2013 29\/08\/2025 \u2013 Torstein Traeen (NOR \u2013 Bahrain \u2013 Victorious) \u2013 photo Luis Angel Gomez\/SprintCyclingAgency\u00a92025<\/p>\n

Torstein Tr\u00e6en will start Stage 8 still leading the General Classification with a 2\u201933\u201d advantage over Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) and 2\u201941\u201d over Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates). With tomorrow\u2019s stage designed for the sprinters, the Norwegian climber looks set to defend the red jersey for at least another day.<\/p>\n

\"\"Vuelta a Espana 2025 \u2013 80th Edition \u2013 7th stage Andorra La Vella \u2013 Cerler. Huesca La Magia 188 km \u2013 29\/08\/2025 \u2013 Torstein Traeen (NOR \u2013 Bahrain \u2013 Victorious) \u2013 photo Rafa Gomez\/SprintCyclingAgency\u00a92025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torstein Tr\u00e6en has successfully defended the leader\u2019s jersey after his first day in red, completing Stage 7 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-106910","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\/106910","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=106910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}