{"id":143882,"date":"2025-09-14T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143882\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:45:07","slug":"pro-palestinian-protests-in-spain-force-cancellation-of-la-vuelta-cycling-races-final-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143882\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protests in Spain force cancellation of La Vuelta cycling race&#8217;s final stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Images showed cyclists at a standstill near the Royal Palace gardens, awaiting an escort from security forces. Riders were later taken to team vehicles or directed to their hotels under police protection.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Organisers confirmed the race could not continue due to the unrest.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Earlier on Sunday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez praised pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have taken place during the race.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;First of all, our recognition and absolute respect for the athletes, but also our admiration for the Spanish people who mobilise for just causes such as that of Palestine,&#8221; Sanchez said at a Socialist Party event in Malaga, according to RTVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images showed cyclists at a standstill near the Royal Palace gardens, awaiting an escort from security forces. Riders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-143882","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\/143882","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=143882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}