{"id":19988,"date":"2025-07-24T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19988\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:41:09","slug":"egan-bernal-is-back-to-lead-ambitious-ineos-grenadiers-at-vuelta-a-burgos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19988\/","title":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal is back to lead ambitious INEOS Grenadiers at Vuelta a Burgos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egan Bernal finished in the Top 10 overall of Volta a Catalunya (7th place), and in his big goal of the year, the Giro d&#8217;Italia, he repeated that 7th place after a race filled with attacks from the 28-year-old&#8217;s side. Although he wasn&#8217;t rewarded with neither inidividual success, nor a final podium, Bernal left a strong impression in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Bernal is expected to be one of the favorites to win the Vuelta a Burgos. He will be accompanied by some of INEOS&#8217; most reliable men in the mountains; Spaniards <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/omar-fraile\" title=\"Omar Fraile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Fraile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/oscar-rodriguez\" title=\"\u00d3scar Rodr\u00edguez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00d3scar Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonathan-castroviejo\" title=\"Jonathan Castroviejo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Castroviejo<\/a>. Also riding for INEOS Grenadiers at the Vuelta a Burgos will be Bernal&#8217;s traditional partner in crime <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/brandon-rivera\" title=\"Brandon Rivera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Rivera<\/a>, and young talent <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/andrew-august\" title=\"Andrew August\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew August<\/a>. The selection is rounded off by newcomer <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/peter-oxenberg\" title=\"Peter Oxenberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Oxenberg<\/a> who is expected to join the team from August 1 after having previously raced with partner team Lotto Kern-Haus in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal finished in the Top 10 overall of Volta a Catalunya (7th place), and in his big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-19988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988","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=19988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}