{"id":97889,"date":"2025-08-26T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:45:09","slug":"sean-quinn-bounces-back-with-vuelta-a-espana-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/97889\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Quinn Bounces Back with Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former US champion Quinn is racing his first grand tour since a knee surgery this spring and roared into Monday’s main breakaway to win most combative prize.<\/p>\n

\"Sean<\/p>\n

Quinn was on the attack Monday and won the most combative prize. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Updated August 25, 2025 01:51PM<\/p>\n

Sean Quinn didn\u2019t waste time making the most of his Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a comeback.<\/p>\n

The 2024 U.S. champion is in the Spanish grand tour after a long recovery from knee surgery this spring.<\/p>\n

The EF Education-EasyPost star jumped into an early move in Monday\u2019s 134.6km stage from San Maurizio Canavese to\u00a0 Ceres. The lumpy profile was ideal terrain for a breakaway, and Quinn didn\u2019t miss the chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always nice, it was worth the shot. It didn\u2019t work out today, but we know that if we keep trying, it will work out, so let\u2019s keep going for it,\u201d Quinn said after the stage. \u201cWe knew a lot of teams were motivated for a reduced group sprint at the end, I think we needed a few more numbers at the front to have a chance against the peloton. After the climb we were only two. It was hard for us to work it out today, but we\u2019ll keep trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day\u2019s main obstacle saw Quinn and Arkea B&B\u2019s Alessandro Verre hold on over the Cat. 2 Isiglio climb midway through the stage. Starting the day at 1:28 back, Quinn even rode into the virtual red jersey as the lead hovered at 2:18 before Lidl-Trek started to twist the knife.<\/p>\n

With 35km to go, Verre \u2014 who recaptured the King of the Mountains jersey \u2014 was neutralized by the bunch, leaving Quinn to savor his last few kilometers OTF.<\/p>\n

Quinn was eventually reeled in with just under 20km to go.<\/p>\n

The upside? After 110km in the breakaway, he won the day\u2019s most combative prize.<\/p>\n

Quinn: \u2018I thought I\u2019d never race again\u2019
\n\"SeanSean Quinn made Monday\u2019s breakaway count. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Quinn\u2019s 2025 campaign was derailed with surgery on his right knee earlier this year. According to a team vlog, the operation involved removing a plica and reducing an inflamed pad, forcing Quinn off the bike for months during recovery.<\/p>\n

Quinn only returned to racing at the Tour of Austria in July and was tipped to race the Vuelta after Richard Carapaz pulled out.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s stage was only Quinn\u2019s 13th day of racing in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were definitely times this past year when I thought I would never race my bike again, because of my knee,\u201d Quinn said in a team vlog. \u201cThat definitely showed me some fragility and reminded me that every race I do could be my last, whether I like that or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, cycling is so hard physically and mentally that maybe late in the season, you\u2019re ready to go home or ready to throw in the towel when you\u2019re suffering in a race, but I have learned that I need to treat every race as if it could be my last one,\u201d he said. \u201cThis year, I\u2019ll get to go to one stage race. So, I have to grab it with both hands and make the most of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quinn took those lessons into this Vuelta, and vows to keep pushing the accelerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US champion Quinn is racing his first grand tour since a knee surgery this spring and roared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,56902,56903,56904,56905,54267],"class_list":["post-97889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-american-racing","tag-tag-ef-education-easypost","tag-tag-sean-quinn","tag-tag-vuelta-a-espana","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97889","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=97889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}