{"id":109418,"date":"2025-08-31T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:03:38","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-philipsen-sprints-to-stage-win-again-as-traeen-stays-in-red-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109418\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a: Philipsen sprints to stage win again as Tr\u00e6en stays in red | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Belgium\u2019s Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory in stage eight of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>, edging Elia Viviani and Ethan Vernon in a photo-finish as Torstein Tr\u00e6en retained the red jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Viviani\u2019s Lotto teammates tried to lead him out in the last 1,000m of the 163km flat ride from Monz\u00f3n to Zaragoza, but Alpecin-Deceuninck\u2019s Philipsen, who had also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/aug\/23\/vuelta-a-espana-jasper-philipsen-sees-off-ethan-vernon-to-take-red-jersey\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the first stage<\/a>, pushed in the final moments to steal the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A breakaway made up of Sergio Samitier, Joan Bou and Jos\u00e9 Luis Faura established a four-minute lead in the first 20km but were reeled in with 17km to go to set up a sprint finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Norwegian Tr\u00e6en (Bahrain Victorious) remains 2min 33sec ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) in the general classification, with 13 stages remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Philipsen, a former Tour de France points classification winner, said he lost contact with his leadout in the final kilometre. \u201cI had to find my way, take a bit of extra wind, and really come late because my legs were concrete,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I just managed to win, so I\u2019m really happy, and the effort of the team has not been for nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cEvery Grand Tour win is always a special one, and it\u2019s never easy. You suffer a lot of days in the mountains to get here. From now on it\u2019s going to be a tough Vuelta, but with the win, that always makes it a bit more easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Philipsen\u2019s 15th Grand Tour stage win closed the gap on points classification leader Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) to 12 points. Britain\u2019s Oliver Knight (Cofidis) withdrew due to illness, while George Bennett (Israel-Premier Tech) abandoned the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Vuelta continues on Sunday with a 195km hilly ride from Alfaro to Valdezcaray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium\u2019s Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory in stage eight of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, edging Elia Viviani and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-109418","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\/109418","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=109418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}