{"id":116663,"date":"2025-09-03T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116663\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:10:07","slug":"ayuso-adds-his-share-on-and-off-the-bike-earning-praise-from-teammate-a-huge-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116663\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayuso adds his share on and off the bike, earning praise from teammate: “A huge effort”"},"content":{"rendered":"

To say that these have been tumultuous days at UAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/a> is an understatement. On the rest day, it was announced that Juan Ayuso<\/a> would be leaving the team, after which he lashed out at the team management before the start of the tenth stage<\/a>. But in the final part of the stage, the Spaniard was seen as a valuable domestique for Jo\u00e3o Almeida<\/a>. The statement is clear: I’m still here, and I’ll do my best.\u201cIt was a special day, given the circumstances,\u201d Ayuso told Eurosport after the finish. \u201cBut I’m very happy for Jay with his second stage win; he’s a good friend.\u201d Jay Vine<\/a> won the stage ahead of the GC contenders, giving UAE Team Emirates its fourth stage win in 10 days: a magnificent achievement.<\/p>\n

While the 22-year-old Spaniard remains the most discussed man in the Vuelta, this time he was seen at the front of the peloton after team leader Jo\u00e3o Almeida had made a remark after the ninth stage. \u201cI felt much better, definitely better than the day before the rest day,\u201d Ayuso explains. \u201cThey asked me to go for it at the start of the climb. I just set a steady pace, and it went well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read on below the video!<\/p>\n

Departure from UAE has been under discussion for some time: “I knew it already two months”Of course, the climber cannot ignore the fact that his departure has been met with mixed reactions, and he himself has been very vocal about the <\/a>management of his team. Moving on takes strength and energy. \u201cTo be honest, it’s difficult. That’s why I’m not going for the GC. I’ve known for two months that I would be leaving, which isn’t easy. I’m quite happy that it’s been announced, so we can finally close this chapter. Hopefully, I’ll be a bit more relaxed next year.\u201dBefore this Vuelta comes to an end, Ayuso wants to be valuable to his team. Almeida<\/a> wants to win the Vuelta, and his teammate hopes to be part of a team that wins a Grand Tour. \u201cOf course, it would be great. I had to go home when Tadej Pogacar won the Tour (in 2024, ed.), but I would love to be part of the winning team in the Vuelta this time.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more below the photo<\/p>\n

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Mikkel Bjerg<\/p>\n

Bjerg saw Ayuso put in huge effort<\/p>\n

Mikkel Bjerg is also here to win this Vuelta with Almeida, although the Dane also played a significant role in Jay Vine’s stage victory on Tuesday. \u201cThe plan was to get Jay into the breakaway, preferably with another rider, so that he wouldn’t be isolated so quickly. He was super strong today, so I helped him catch up with the others and did my part until he made his move early on. He had the legs for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great to help Jay, and I also did a turn in the group of favorites for Jo\u00e3o,\u201d Bjerg continued on Eurosport. \u201cIt was great to see Juan put in a huge effort, and then it was my turn. The level is extremely high; I could only keep up with his pace for a short while.\u201d Regarding Ayuso’s statement, Bjerg said: \u201cWe ride for sporting reasons, and today we showed that we ride as a collective. Everyone contributed, and we won four stages in this Vuelta. Somehow it works, doesn’t it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To say that these have been tumultuous days at UAE Team Emirates – XRG is an understatement. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-116663","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\/116663","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=116663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}