{"id":105513,"date":"2025-08-31T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105513\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:20:07","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-jonas-vingegaard-wins-stage-nine-to-narrow-gap-on-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/105513\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espana: Jonas Vingegaard wins stage nine to narrow gap on leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonas Vingegaard won stage nine of the Vuelta a Espana with a solo attack to narrow the gap to overall leader Torstein Traeen to just 37 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-time Tour de France winner shaved two minutes off Traeen&#8217;s lead in the ride from Alfaro to the Valdezcaray ski resort, landing his third stage victory in the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Tom Pidcock attempted to stay with the 28-year-old Dane along with Joao Almeida, but finished 24 seconds off the pace in second spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt great today, and I felt amazing on the final climb,&#8221; said Visma-Lease a Bike rider Vingegaard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I asked [my team-mates] to accelerate, and they did a great job. It was fantastic teamwork and I&#8217;m very happy that I was able to finish it off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norwegian Traeen launched a late attack in the final three kilometres to finish one minute 46 seconds behind Vingegaard, retaining the red jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard won stage nine of the Vuelta a Espana with a solo attack to narrow the gap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-105513","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\/105513","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=105513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}