{"id":126982,"date":"2025-09-08T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126982\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:24:08","slug":"early-attackers-to-light-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126982\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Attackers to Light Things Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    &#8220;], &#8220;filter&#8221;: { &#8220;nextExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, div&#8221;, &#8220;nextContainsExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button&#8221;} }&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Stage 15 \u2013 Sunday September 7<br \/>A Veiga\/Vegadeo to Monforte de Lemos<br \/>Distance: 167.8km (104.3 miles)<br \/>Profile: Medium mountain stage<br \/>Stage 15: A day for the break? <\/p>\n<p>This stage of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/vuelta-a-espana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-afl-p=\"0\">Vuelta<\/a> is a perfect opportunity for long-range specialists.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulties are frontloaded, with the opening 16km leading the riders to the summit of the category 1 Puerto A Garganta. A jagged profile follows from there, including the category 2 Alto de Barbeitos, with things only easing off after 92km or so.<\/p>\n<p>From there the terrain is mostly downhill to the finish, enabling the peloton to put in a big chase, but with many difficult days before then the sprinters\u2019 teams may find it hard to gather their forces.<br \/>Race director Fernando Escart\u00edn: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mid-mountain stage in the ever-winding Galicia. The terrain will be tough all day long and, although the sprinter teams will try to control the stage, those who escape or maybe a brave rider who attacks in the final kilometers may have a chance at winning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;], &#8220;filter&#8221;: { &#8220;nextExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, div&#8221;, &#8220;nextContainsExceptions&#8221;: &#8220;img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button&#8221;} }&#8221;&gt; Stage 15 \u2013 Sunday September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85,39562],"class_list":["post-126982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-vuelta-a-espana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126982","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=126982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}