{"id":692474,"date":"2026-05-25T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:38:08","slug":"gc-duo-hold-station-as-giro-reaches-final-rest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692474\/","title":{"rendered":"GC duo hold station as Giro reaches final rest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thymen Arensman and Egan Bernal arrive at the final rest day of the Giro d&#8217;Italia in fourth and 12th place respectively following a safe passage through stage 15.<\/p>\n<p>A rapid stage played out in a sprint on the streets of Milan, with the GC times taken early on safety grounds on a technical circuit.<\/p>\n<p>That allowed Arensman and Bernal to finish safely and begin their recovery ahead of Monday&#8217;s rest day and a gruelling final week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Netcompany INEOS worked hard to protect the duo on a fast day in the saddle, as well as set up Ben Turner in the event of a sprint.<\/p>\n<p>In the end a four-man breakaway proved to be too much for the peloton, with the quartet combining well to remain clear in Milan. In the end it was Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X Mobility) who won the four-up sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) heads into the final week with a race lead of 2:26, with Arensman 3:03 back on the maglia rosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thymen Arensman and Egan Bernal arrive at the final rest day of the Giro d&#8217;Italia in fourth and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-692474","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\/692474","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=692474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}