{"id":108256,"date":"2025-08-30T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:23:09","slug":"philipsen-doubles-up-in-busy-stage-8-sprint-at-the-vuelta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108256\/","title":{"rendered":"Philipsen doubles up in busy stage 8 sprint at the Vuelta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/corvos-vuelta-stage-8-2.jpg\" alt=\"Philipsen doubles up in busy stage 8 sprint at the Vuelta\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">A chaotic sprint closed out an otherwise fairly relaxed day out in Spain, as Torstein Tr\u00e6en holds onto the red jersey.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kit Nicholson\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/profile-pic-KN-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>It was a relatively quiet day out on stage 8 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a as the peloton raced through Spain&#8217;s Aragon region, inevitably culminating in a chaotic bunch sprint won by Jasper Philipsen, who took his 15th Grand Tour stage win in Zaragoza.<\/p>\n<p>As is so often the case on a relaxed so-called &#8216;transition stage&#8217;, the bunch gallop was particularly fraught, harder to control and more dangerous in the more populated pack. After the stage, two riders were relegated, with Lotto&#8217;s Elia Viviani losing the runner-up finish his team had worked so hard for, and Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) following the Italian&#8217;s irregular lead, resulting in his own relegation from sixth to the back of the group.<\/p>\n<p>With the GC contenders taking a day off (another one), Torstein Tr\u00e6en held onto his two-minute-33-second lead over Jonas Vingegaard, with a Cat.1 summit finish to come on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>[race_result id=23 stage_id=86352 count=10 gc=0 year=2025]<\/p>\n<p>[race_result id=23 stage_id=86352 count=10 gc=10 year=2025]<\/p>\n<p>How it happenedA three-man, all-Spanish breakaway of Joan Bou (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA), Sergio Samitier (Cofidis) and Jos\u00e9 Luis Faura (Burgos Burpellet BH) led the way through the northeastern Aragon region from Monz\u00f3n Templario to Zaragoza.The trio held an advantage into the finishing circuit, with Bou and Samitier holding the peloton off until 17 km to go.<\/p>\n<p>        Visma-Lease a Bike set the pace for much of the run-in from there, at least until 5km to go where the sprint safety zone began.<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"68b31bf19b1f946bccd40a43\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/vuelta-a-espana\/\" title=\"Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29621 vuelta-a-espana\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/jasper-philipsen\/\" title=\"Jasper Philipsen\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29276 jasper-philipsen\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasper Philipsen<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing A chaotic sprint closed out an otherwise fairly relaxed day out in Spain, as Torstein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-108256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}