{"id":785796,"date":"2026-07-07T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785796\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:52:14","slug":"celebration-for-red-bull-and-van-poppel-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/785796\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration for Red Bull and Van Poppel in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cycling world is captivated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/idlprocycling.com\/idlprocycling.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour de France<\/a>, but other races are taking place elsewhere in Europe as well. In Romania, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/sibiu-cycling-tour\" title=\"Sibiu Cycling Tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sibiu Cycling Tour<\/a> has been playing out over the past few days. On the final day, it was a double celebration for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/danny-van-poppel\" title=\"Danny van Poppel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny van Poppel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/m\/race.php?r=258&amp;y=2026&amp;e=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">won the final stage<\/a>, and 19-year-old top talent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/lorenzo-finn\" title=\"Lorenzo Finn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Finn<\/a> claimed the overall victory.The Romanian 2.1 race had been the subject of much discussion just a day earlier, when a bear suddenly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/-meanwhile-in-romania-lorenzo-finn-had-to-deal-with-wout-poels-and-a-wayward-bear-in-his-path\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crossed the road in front of the leaders<\/a> during the queen stage. In that queen stage, Finn ultimately managed to shake off Wout Poels. The Dutch rider from Unibet Rose Rockets finished second, effectively ensuring that the overall victory would go to the much younger Italian.<\/p>\n<p>The final stage on day four was certainly not difficult, so Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe was expected to claim the overall victory anyway. Finn had no trouble during the 181-kilometer stage between the start and finish in Sibiu, and so the overall victory in the 2.1-category race marked the third professional win for the Italian, who is not yet 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sibiu-cycling-tour-beer.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"sibiu-cycling-tour-beer\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A bear suddenly appeared on the road during the Sibiu Tour on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe celebrates a double victory on the final day in RomaniaHowever, Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe was still hungry for victory, and with Van Poppel on the team\u2014as well as the speedy Davide Donati (who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/van-bekkums-brave-solo-bid-falls-just-short-as-red-bull-rookies-deliver-donati-in-bizarre-finale\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recently won a stage at the Giro Next Gen<\/a>, where he also took the points classification)\u2014there were certainly still opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner said than done, as the Austrian-German team controlled Tuesday\u2019s stage and brought it to a sprint finish. There, they coolly pulled off the win: Van Poppel took it ahead of his cheering teammate Donati. Oded Kogut finished third in the day\u2019s results for NSN.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe racked up four victories in Romania: two stage wins and Finn\u2019s overall victory, plus Van Poppel\u2019s stage win in the final stage. Those were victories 29 through 32 for the team, which will also be hoping to strike in the sprint with Jordi Meeus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/2026-tour-de-france-stage-5-preview-just-a-sprint-but-didnt-we-think-the-same-thing-in-pau-in-2024\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on Wednesday in the Tour de France<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cycling world is captivated by the Tour de France, but other races are taking place elsewhere in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,220980,198122,39733,371097,85],"class_list":["post-785796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-danny-van-poppel","tag-lorenzo-finn","tag-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe","tag-sibiu-cycling-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785796","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=785796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}