{"id":501416,"date":"2026-02-24T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:51:08","slug":"if-people-dont-like-how-we-celebrate-they-better-get-used-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501416\/","title":{"rendered":"If people don\u2019t like how we celebrate, they better get used to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very beautiful day, I\u2019ll remember this race all my life: my first overall title. Honestly, it was a big goal for this season, and sometimes it comes when you least expect it,\u201d Iv\u00e1n Romeo began. The Spanish rouleur benefitted from his aggressive tactics, and a strong set of climbing performances in the second half of the race to defend his yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a time trial maybe it wasn\u2019t what I had in mind, but my form was excellent. And the team today was not a 10, but an 11. I did do nothing else but suffer on the last climb to win the overall,\u201d added Iv\u00e1n Romeo, admitting he hadn\u2019t initially targeted the general classification at this Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan was to stay with Andreas Leknessund, who was my closest rival on GC. I knew that, in my current shape, it would be hard for the others to take much time. I had 51 seconds on Pidcock, and when he attacked with 5,5 km to go I didn\u2019t have the legs to respond. I knew I had to crest the climb more or less close, and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big step for the 22-year old, who takes the first GC win of his career here; and adds to his already impressive palmar\u00e8s as a second-year elite professional. \u201cWe worked a lot this winter to make a big step up this season. The goal was to reach this level and fight with the best. So far everything is going that way, and we hope it continues,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ivan-romeo-andalucia-1253973994.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"Iv\u00e1n Romeo at the 2026 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Iv\u00e1n Romeo, winner of the 2026 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwipe\u201d at the Movistar Team haters<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Iv\u00e1n Romeo had a message for those who, in recent weeks, have criticized how he and his teammates celebrate victories:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this team we\u2019re all mates. If I hadn\u2019t won today, Jefferson [Alveiro] Cepeda could have because he was up the road. But he devoted himself to closing every gap perfectly. That\u2019s who we are, a tight unit, and if people don\u2019t like how we celebrate, they better get used to it,\u201d concluded the 2026 Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; \u201cA very beautiful day, I\u2019ll remember this race all my life: my first overall title. Honestly, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,222748,39552,85,225101],"class_list":{"0":"post-501416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-ivan-romeo","12":"tag-movistar-team","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-vuelta-a-andalucia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501416","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=501416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}