{"id":602812,"date":"2026-08-24T05:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/602812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:28:12","slug":"brennan-takes-stage-2-of-vuelta-as-pogacar-retains-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/602812\/","title":{"rendered":"Brennan takes Stage 2 of Vuelta as Pogacar retains lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Matthew Brennan claimed victory in stage two of the Vuelta a Espana.<\/p>\n<p>Riding in his first grand tour, the 21-year-old sprinted to victory in the second stage of the event, a hilly course which ran from Monaco to Manosque.<\/p>\n<p>Pau Miquel finished narrowly behind Brennan in second, while Tadej Pogacar settled for third.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar still leads at the top of the general classification standings, with Brennan now sitting third.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Dunbar came home in 84th place, completing the stage in four hours and 48 minutes. Darren Rafferty finished in 163rd place in a time of four hours and 51 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Matthew Brennan claimed victory in stage two of the Vuelta a Espana. Riding in his first grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-602812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}