{"id":132745,"date":"2025-09-10T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132745\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:56:07","slug":"two-peaks-but-a-whole-lotta-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132745\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Peaks but a Whole Lotta Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage 17 preview of the 2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. Here’s what to expect, as well as the route, distance, stage type, and more.<\/p>\n

\"Vuelta<\/p>\n

Vuelta 2025 stage 17 profile (Photo: Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a)<\/p>\n

Published September 9, 2025 12:30PM<\/p>\n

Stage 17 \u2013 Wednesday September 10
O Barco de Valdeorras to Alto de el Morredero Ponferrada
Distance: 143.2km (89 miles)
Profile: Medium mountain stage
Stage 17: The scene is set for a big fightout on the final climb <\/p>\n

The non-climbers have another awful day in store, with yet another tough Vuelta<\/a> summit finish. The stage is up and down from the start, even if there are only two official categorized climbs. The first of those peaks 75km after the drop of the flag, with the next being the first category summit finish of the Alto de el Morredero. It averages slightly under 10 percent over 8.8kms of climbing, and will be another important GC test.<\/p>\n

Race director Fernando Escart\u00edn: <\/p>\n

\u201cA winding stage along the border between Galicia and Le\u00f3n. With an intermediate distance, it could be a good day for an escape, where climbers will have a chance to prove their worth during the final climb.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 17 preview of the 2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. Here’s what to expect, as well as the route,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,56905,54267],"class_list":["post-132745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-vuelta-a-espana","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132745","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=132745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}