{"id":537917,"date":"2026-04-18T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:56:10","slug":"drama-unfolds-at-o-gran-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537917\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama unfolds at O Gran Cami\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the episode, the Portuguese team\u2019s sports director, Am\u00e9rico Silva, explained the team\u2019s version of the incident. According to him, the rider was trying to get into the break when a moment of tension arose in the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was trying to go clear into the break. The teams at the front blocked the road, pushed him into the gutter, and he reacted,&#8221; he said. In words to <a href=\"https:\/\/ciclismointernacional.com\/contte-expulsado-o-gran-camino-2026-movistar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ciclismo Internacional<\/a>, Contte explained further what happened: \u201cA breakaway had formed, and I was fighting for the mountain sprint and had to get in. Then they closed the road, as they always do when a breakaway forms, but in reality, the breakaway wasn&#8217;t actually formed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were people trying to attack, they gave me some space, I attacked, and a Movistar rider\u2014I don&#8217;t know who exactly\u2014looked back, saw me, and went after me as I was coming at speed. When that happened, which was from left to right, and since there was a rider next to me, I tried to put my hand on his backside to avoid falling. I fell anyway, recovered, and chased,&#8221; he recalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I rejoined the peloton, the race official called me over to tell me I was disqualified&#8221;. The decision was official. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t say anything else, just that I was disqualified. The official closed the window in my face, and that was it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Responding to the episode, the Portuguese team\u2019s sports director, Am\u00e9rico Silva, explained the team\u2019s version of the incident.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,183660,38938,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-537917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-gran-camino","10":"tag-movistar-team","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537917","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=537917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}