opening day<\/a> of the Tour de France at the start of July, two days before a broken collarbone sustained in a serious crash ruled him out of the rest of the race.<\/p>\nThe 27-year-old surged down the final straight following a lead-out from his Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck team-mates, claiming victory ahead of Britain’s Ethan Vernon of ProTeam Israel\u2013Premier Tech and Movistar’s Orluis Aular.<\/p>\n
“Winning is always a nice feeling and definitely when there is a reward like the red jersey, of course it’s a nice present,” Philipsen said.<\/p>\n
“After my crash in the Tour, I was really disappointed to be out. It was a setback. This was a nice goal, but I knew we only had one chance because there aren’t many opportunities for a sprinter like me at this Vuelta.”<\/p>\n
Tom Pidcock, tipped as Britain’s great hope after impressing at his new Q36.5 team this season, finished ninth.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Vuelta a Espana is starting outside of Spain for the sixth time, and the first time in Italy, with the largely flat 186.1km ride going from Turin to the town of Novara.<\/p>\n
Alessandro Verre claimed King of the Mountains points on the only categorised climb of the day on the ascent at La Serra, ahead of Joel Nicolau.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s second stage remains in Italy’s Piedmont region, with the 159.6km route beginning in Alba and ending with a 9.8km climb to the ski resort of Limone Piemonte.<\/p>\n
Four-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar is not competing in this year’s race as he focuses his attention on September’s World Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen will wear the first red jersey of this year’s Vuelta a Espana after winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-92293","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\/92293","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=92293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}