{"id":526728,"date":"2026-03-08T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526728\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:22:09","slug":"aleix-espargaro-responds-to-viral-cycling-video-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526728\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleix Espargar\u00f3 responds to viral cycling video controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The images generated an intense debate among fans and internet users. The episode also caused discomfort within <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/lidl-trek\" title=\"Lidl-Trek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lidl-Trek<\/a>, as the Spanish rider is an ambassador for the team and appears in the video wearing the kit of the German squad. Furthermore, Espargar\u00f3 had already had previous contact with the team after competing in two professional races during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The images generated an intense debate among fans and internet users. The episode also caused discomfort within Lidl-Trek,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[163184,64,63,784,93896,49602,85,261988],"class_list":["post-526728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-aleix-espargaro","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-lidl-trek","tag-sports","tag-tour-of-austria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526728","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=526728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}