{"id":95418,"date":"2025-08-25T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:01:07","slug":"vingegaard-keeps-vuelta-lead-after-team-suffer-bike-thefts-but-gaudu-closes-gap-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95418\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard keeps Vuelta lead after team suffer bike thefts but Gaudu closes gap | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> yesterday, finishing third on stage three after a fraught 24 hours in which his Visma-Lease a Bike team discovered the theft of several bikes from an equipment truck.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard seemed largely unaffected, finishing on the wheels of second-placed Mads Pedersen and the stage winner, David Gaudu, after an uphill sprint at the end of the first medium-mountain stage of the race, a 139km ride from San Maurizio Canavese to Ceres in Italy.<\/p>\n

Gaudu, who was third on Sunday<\/a>, climbs to second place in the general classification after picking up 10 bonus seconds, while Pedersen\u2019s teammate Giulio Ciccone finished fourth and is third overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking in the bus this morning it was more for Pedersen, but [teammate Stefan] Kung said to me I have a punch and I can win today,\u201d Gaudu said after his first Vuelta stage win since 2020<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m very happy. I\u2019m very, very proud to win for me, for the team. This is, I think, the best start to the Vuelta we could get.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the stage, Vingegaard\u2019s Team Visma-Lease a Bike said police in Italy were investigating the theft of \u201cseveral bikes\u201d from an equipment truck. \u201cLast night, our mechanics\u2019 truck was broken into and several bikes were stolen,\u201d the team said in a statement. \u201cOur mechanics are working hard to ensure that the team is fully prepared for the third stage. The police have launched an investigation into the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vingegaard was also missing the support of Axel Zingle, after the French cyclist was in a crash on Sunday in the rain-hit stage that also caught up the team leader. Vingegaard went on to win with a bloodied elbow, but an injury from the crash has forced Zingle to abandon the race.<\/p>\n

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Visma said: \u201cOur medical team had to decide that Axel Zingle is not fit enough to continue the Vuelta. His first Grand Tour with the team comes to an early end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a yesterday, finishing third on stage three after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-95418","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\/95418","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=95418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}