{"id":117839,"date":"2025-09-06T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117839\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:20:09","slug":"2024-vuelta-a-espana-runner-up-ben-oconnor-abandons-race-on-road-to-angliru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117839\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a runner-up Ben O’Connor abandons race on road to Angliru"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> runner-up Ben O’Connor<\/a> has abandoned the 2025 race during stage 13 to the Angliru<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Jayco-AlUla<\/a> leader was reportedly suffering the consequences of a crash that occurred during the stage to Larra Belagua earlier this week and has been forced to quit in the opening phases of the 202-kilometre stage, before it reaches the high mountains of Asturias later on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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O’Connor lost over a quarter of an hour on stage 12 winner Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) yesterday and was lying 25th overall, well out of the GC battle, when he quit.<\/p>\n

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The winner of the Col de la Loze stage in the Tour de France<\/a>, but unable to fight for the overall, as he had hoped, after a crash on the opening day, the Australian had then come into the Vuelta with serious GC ambitions.<\/p>\n

Last year, the 29-year-old finished second overall in the Vuelta, his best GC result to date in a Grand Tour, after a spectacularly successful stage win in the first week and subsequent defence of the overall lead for the best part of a fortnight against lead favourite and eventual winner Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).<\/p>\n

O’Connor had already ruled himself out of a return to the World Championships<\/a> this year, where he formed part of the winning TTT squad and then took second in the elite men’s road race behind Slovenia’s Tadej Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n

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