{"id":721676,"date":"2026-06-07T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721676\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:59:14","slug":"deja-vu-for-van-der-breggen-in-final-stage-of-the-giro-ditalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721676\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu for Van der Breggen in final stage of the Giro d&#8217;Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CORVOS_00039031-179.jpg\" alt=\"D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu for Van der Breggen in final stage of the Giro d'Italia\" 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\">For the second time in 2026, Anna van der Breggen started the final stage of a &#8220;Grand Tour&#8221; in the leader&#8217;s jersey, but ended up losing it. <\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abby Mickey\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abby-Mickey-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>If I had a dollar for every time Anna van der Breggen lost the general classification in the final stage of a major week-long tour in 2026, I would have two dollars. Which isn&#8217;t a lot. But it&#8217;s wild that it&#8217;s happened twice. <\/p>\n<p>On May 8th, Van der Breggen rode to her first WorldTour victory of the year at <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/van-der-breggen-storms-to-victory-in-first-gc-day-of-la-vuelta\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stage 6 of La Vuelta Femenina<\/a>. The ride granted the former world champion the red leader&#8217;s jersey, but one day later, she would lose it on the slopes of L&#8217;Angliru <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/blasi-wins-la-vuelta-stiasny-grabs-stage-7-on-the-slopes-of-langliru\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to Paula Blasi<\/a>. Van der Breggen rode a steady pace to hold onto second overall, but it was a blow to the SD Worx-Protime rider. <\/p>\n<p>When Van der Breggen took her second win of the year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/anna-van-der-breggen-giro-stage-2\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stage 4 time trial<\/a> at the Giro d&#8217;Italia, she looked to be head and shoulders above the rest. It was the best performance since she returned to the peloton last season, after retiring at the end of 2021. <\/p>\n<p>At the end of the fourth stage, Van der Breggen pulled on the pink jersey, and despite Demi Vollering trying to pull it off her for four days, the Dutchwoman held firm. <\/p>\n<p>Until stage 9. <\/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=\"6a25853188f03405d8ff3758\">\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\/womens-cycling\/\" title=\"women&#039;s cycling\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29644 womens-cycling\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">women&#8217;s cycling<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/anna-van-der-breggen\/\" title=\"Anna van der Breggen\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f2900c anna-van-der-breggen\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna van der Breggen<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/giro-ditalia-women\/\" title=\"Giro d&#039;Italia Women\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f291ee giro-ditalia-women\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giro d&#8217;Italia Women<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing For the second time in 2026, Anna van der Breggen started the final stage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-721676","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\/721676","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=721676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}