{"id":876457,"date":"2026-08-30T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876457\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:28:10","slug":"what-caused-pogacar-to-crash-out-of-the-2026-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876457\/","title":{"rendered":"What caused Poga\u010dar to crash out of the 2026 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> is out of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, but anyone who saw the Slovenian world champion from UAE Emirates-XRG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/tadej-pogacar-withdraws-after-a-hard-crash-on-the-eighth-stage-of-the-vuelta-a-espana\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">get into the ambulance<\/a> knew right away that this might spell the end of his season. With the World Championships and European Championships (in Slovenia) still to come after a hoped-for overall victory in the Vuelta, everything has suddenly gone awry. And according to people on the scene, a rock may have been the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar\u2019s crash was very strange, because he suddenly lost control of his bike, even though he\u2019s usually in complete control of the situation. Lack of focus? That didn\u2019t seem to be the case anyway, since Pogacar was riding on the left side of the peloton, quite far forward. Moreover, we\u2019d just had an intermediate sprint, and the finish of Stage 8 was approaching.<\/p>\n<p>An external factor? Yes, as it turned out. The Eurosport commentators quickly pointed out\u2014right from the motorcycle\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LucGrefte\/status\/2093724691772977623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a large rock<\/a> lying on the side of the road, at the spot where Pogacar had fallen. A silly rock, just like that silly roundabout in the Tour de France involving Jonas Vingegaard and Visma | Lease a Bike. It can\u2019t be\u2026Video: What caused Poga\u010dar to crash out of the 2026 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a?Enric Mas saw a frustrated Poga\u010dar on stage 7<\/p>\n<p>Tadej Poga\u010dar finished stage 7 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a strongly after a late attack on the final climb, following an acceleration by Decathlon CMA CGM for Felix Gall. Enric Mas suggested Poga\u010dar was frustrated and motivated by a grudge, though he didn\u2019t specify why.<\/p>\n<p>Poga\u010dar said he kept his team\u2019s tempo when Gall created a gap and then pushed to the summit, focusing on the general classification. Mas remains second overall, 3:50 behind Poga\u010dar and one minute ahead of Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d, stressing a step-by-step approach. Poga\u010dar called it a straightforward day, saved energy, didn\u2019t use teammates, and expects Stage 9 to be among the toughest.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/enric-mas-saw-a-frustrated-tadej-pogacar-on-stage-7-of-the-vuelta-a-espana-thats-why-he-rode-that-way\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar is out of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, but anyone who saw the Slovenian world champion from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,1422,129545,301174],"class_list":["post-876457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","tag-vuelta-a-espana-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876457","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=876457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}