{"id":119529,"date":"2025-09-06T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119529\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:34:07","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-marc-soler-wins-stage-14-as-riders-from-the-israel-premier-tech-cycling-team-race-in-modified-jerseys-amid-more-pro-palestinian-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119529\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espana: Marc Soler wins stage 14 as riders from the Israel-Premier Tech cycling team race in modified jerseys amid more pro-Palestinian protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Soler won stage 14 of the Vuelta a Espana as riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team raced in modified jerseys amid more pro-Palestinian protests at the final Grand Tour of the season.<\/p>\n

Spaniard Soler powered up to the summit finish at Farrapona in the north of the country alone after dropping his fellow breakaway riders.<\/p>\n

Overall race leader Jonas Vingegaard was runner-up on Saturday, 39 seconds behind, as he edged out nearest rival Joao Almeida of Portugal – Soler’s UAE Team Emirates-XRG team-mate – on the second big mountain stage in two days.<\/p>\n

Denmark’s Vingegaard boosted his lead in the general classification by a further two seconds.<\/p>\n

Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock finished eighth and remains in third position overall, although he conceded a further 10 seconds to fourth-placed Jai Hindley, who also came fourth on the day.<\/p>\n

Riders from Israel-Premier Tech participated wearing jerseys without their team name on for the “safety” of the race.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, stage 11 ended prematurely with no winner declared<\/a> as police struggled to contain hundreds of flag-waving pro-Palestinian protesters in Bilbao.<\/p>\n

“In the interest of prioritising the safety of our riders and the entire peloton, in light of the dangerous nature of some protests at the Vuelta, Israel-Premier Tech has issued riders with team monogram-branded kit for the remainder of the race,” the team said on Saturday before the stage.<\/p>\n

“The team name remains Israel-Premier Tech but the monogram kit now aligns with the branding decisions we have previously adopted for our vehicles and casual clothing.”<\/p>\n

There was some disruption during the neutralised start as riders slowed to a halt to travel down a narrow road lined with people waving Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.<\/p>\n

At least 64,231 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n

The ministry also says 370 people have so far died during the war as a result of malnutrition and starvation, including three over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The Vuelta continues on Sunday in Galicia with the medium-mountain stage 15, a 168km route from A Veiga to Vegadeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Soler won stage 14 of the Vuelta a Espana as riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team raced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-119529","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\/119529","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=119529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}