{"id":125901,"date":"2025-09-09T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125901\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:51:06","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-egan-bernal-wins-stage-16-curtailed-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125901\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a: Egan Bernal wins stage 16 curtailed by pro-Palestinian protesters | Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-Palestinian protesters continue to disrupt the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a>, with stage\u00a016 ending on Tuesday 8km before the scheduled finish at \u00adCastro de\u00a0\u00adHerville because of protests close to the line. The Colombian rider Egan Bernal won the stage, with Jonas Vingegaard retaining the overall race lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a big protest at three kilometres before the line. We will decide the stage winner and take times at eight kilometres before the line,\u201d the race directors announced on Radio Vuelta.<\/p>\n

The race had entered the final 15km, with Bernal for Ineos Grenadiers and Spain\u2019s Mikel Landa (Soudal Quick-Step) out in front; the Colombian won the sprint to the new finish line with Brieuc Rolland, riding for Groupama-FDJ, coming in third.<\/p>\n

A large group of protesters, \u00adwaving Palestinian flags, had blocked the road on the ascent to the line, and the finish was moved to the foot of the climb, on the 167.9km ride from Poio to Mos.Castro de Herville.<\/p>\n

Landa and Bernal were part of a 17\u2011man breakaway group early in the stage, and the pair had dropped everyone else by the time the announcement came. Bernal, a former Tour de France and Giro d\u2019Italia winner, secured his first Vuelta stage win.<\/p>\n

Egan Bernal leads the breakaway that eventually brought him his first Vuelta stage win. Photograph: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The peloton had been content to allow the riders up ahead to stay away, but on the penultimate climb the main bunch began to split, with the general classification contenders forming their own group. Vingegaard, who had a puncture and needed to take one of his teammates\u2019 \u00adbicycles, came in 15th, almost six minutes behind the stage winner, with the Dane\u2019s GC rivals alongside him. The pre-race favourite remains 48\u00a0seconds ahead of Portugal\u2019s Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG) with Britain\u2019s Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling<\/a> Team) third overall, more than two and a half minutes down on the red jersey.<\/p>\n

Previously there was no winner on stage 11<\/a>, after organisers ordered the race to finish 3km from the line because of pro-Palestinian pro\u00adtesters causing disruption at the finish in \u00adBilbao. There were incidents on stage\u00a010<\/a> which caused a rider to crash and also during the stage\u2011five team time trial when the Israel-Premier Tech team were stopped on the road by a group of protesters holding Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n

Israel-Premier Tech removed their name from riders\u2019 jerseys<\/a> on\u00a0Saturday, but the protests have continued, with Javier Romo (Movistar) crashing on stage 15 on Sunday. The Spanish rider was not at the start of the stage on Tuesday, abandoning the race because of injuries picked up in the crash after a man with a Palestinian flag tried to run up to the riders and a policeman ran across the road towards the spectator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protesters continue to disrupt the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, with stage\u00a016 ending on Tuesday 8km before the scheduled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-125901","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\/125901","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=125901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}