{"id":125497,"date":"2025-09-09T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125497\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:59:07","slug":"police-remove-tree-trunk-cut-down-across-road-on-stage-16-of-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125497\/","title":{"rendered":"Police remove tree trunk cut down across road on stage 16 of Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"cff6cf64-7a3d-46b1-b782-2944e01d0a9d\">Police at the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/vuelta-a-espana\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/vuelta-a-espana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> have moved quickly to try remove a tree trunk felled and seemingly deliberately placed across the road during <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/vuelta-a-espana-2025\/stage-16\/live-report\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/vuelta-a-espana-2025\/stage-16\/live-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stage 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What appears to be an act of sabotage, but has yet to be officially confirmed as such, took place some 30 kilometres from the line in the hilly stage from Poio to Castro de Herville.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"cff6cf64-7a3d-46b1-b782-2944e01d0a9d-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Images on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpazioCiclismo\/status\/1965408501087478187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpazioCiclismo\/status\/1965408501087478187\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">SpazioCiclismo<\/a> show workmen armed with chainsaws removing the tree trunk, which crosses the entire road, outside the locality of Morgadans, close to the Alto de Prado climb.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">L&#8217;organizzazione ha dovuto intanto occuparsi di un albero che era stato tagliato e fatto cadere sulla sede stradale ai piedi dell&#8217;Alto de Prado, in localit\u00e0 Morgadans #LaVuelta25 pic.twitter.com\/0FVKSDeiWx<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1965408501087478187\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1965408501087478187\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"20bea9b5-49df-4ed6-a59b-16268fdde1a8\">The race, led by a breakaway of five riders, had not yet reached the location when the tree trunk was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Vuelta has been <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/people-are-doing-it-for-a-reason-its-horrible-whats-happening-vuelta-a-espana-leader-jonas-vingegaard-voices-understanding-for-pro-palestine-protesters\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/people-are-doing-it-for-a-reason-its-horrible-whats-happening-vuelta-a-espana-leader-jonas-vingegaard-voices-understanding-for-pro-palestine-protesters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affected by multiple pro-Palestine protests<\/a>, including several attempts to stop the race. At present, no group or organisation has claimed responsibility for the tree-felling incident.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a have moved quickly to try remove a tree trunk felled and seemingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-125497","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\/125497","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=125497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}