Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen claimed his second stage victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage eight. <\/p>\n
The Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck rider edged out Italy’s Elia Viviani (Lotto) and Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) of Great Britain in a photo finish on the 163.5km stage from Monzon Templario to Zaragoza. <\/p>\n
“I had to find my way, take a bit of extra wind, and really come late because my legs were concrete,” said Philipsen. <\/p>\n
“But I just managed to win so I’m really happy, and the effort of the team has not been for nothing.<\/p>\n
“Every Grand Tour win is always a special one, and it’s never easy. You suffer a lot of days in the mountains to get here. From now on it’s going to be a tough Vuelta, but with the win, that always makes it a bit more easy.”<\/p>\n
General classification leader Torstein Traeen (Bahrain Victorious) retained the red jersey and remains two minutes 33 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) with 13 stages to go.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s stage is a 195km hilly ride from Alfaro to Valdezcaray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen claimed his second stage victory of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on stage eight. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-103727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}