{"id":84453,"date":"2025-08-20T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84453\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:04:07","slug":"there-will-be-two-canadians-racing-the-vuelta-but-no-derek-gee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84453\/","title":{"rendered":"There will be two Canadians racing the Vuelta but no Derek Gee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel-Premier Tech released its <a href=\"https:\/\/israelpremiertech.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lineup<\/a> for the 80th Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and to great surprise there\u2019s no Derek Gee, but instead Canada\u2019s Pier-Andr\u00e9 C\u00f4t\u00e9 will get his first Grand Tour start. There will be two Canadians at the Vuelta, with Nickolas Zukowsky getting the start for Q.36.5. It\u2019s his second Grand Tour.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no reason yet why Gee was given the yank after months of his name on the tentative start list. Gee was also supposed to race the Tour de Poland but didn\u2019t roll that WorldTour race yet either. Canadian Cycling Magazine has reached out to the team for more information on the change of plans for Gee, but has yet to hear back.<\/p>\n<p>In his first year with the senior squad C\u00f4t\u00e9 has raced 43 days. He came eighth in the Baloise Belgium Tour\u2019s time trial. Recently he didn\u2019t finish the Tour de Poland, foregoing the time trial finale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CoteWorlds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CoteWorlds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1187\" height=\"742\"  \/><\/a>Cote representing Canada at last year\u2019s Worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Zukowsky\u2019s first Grand Tour of the year ended prematurely, as he crashed out of the Giro d\u2019Italia on Stage 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ZukowskyCrash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ZukowskyCrash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1212\" height=\"695\"  \/><\/a>A kinghell bummer for Zukowsky early on the Giro\u2019s Stage 4.<\/p>\n<p>Zukowsky, the 2023 national road champion, was recently 53rd in the Vuelta a Burgos.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel-Premier Tech released its lineup for the 80th Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and to great surprise there\u2019s no Derek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[20825,37377,49,48,635,43703,28668,50413,82,11588],"class_list":["post-84453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2025-uci-worldtour","tag-2025-vuelta-a-espana","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-israel-premier-tech","tag-nickolas-zukowsky","tag-pier-andre-cote","tag-sports","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84453","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=84453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}