{"id":57025,"date":"2025-08-10T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T12:43:07","slug":"unfinished-business-ethan-hayter-set-for-vuelta-a-espana-for-soudal-quick-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnfinished business\u201d \u2013 Ethan Hayter set for Vuelta a Espana for Soudal \u2013 Quick-Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethan Hayter<\/a>\u2019s first season at Soudal \u2013 Quick-Step has been something
\nof a bumpy road. The 26-year-old British rider, crowned national road race
\nchampion in 2024 and a three-time national time trial champion, is set to make
\nhis return to Grand Tour racing at the 2025 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a later this month.
\nIt will be his second three-week race of 2025 after the Giro d\u2019Italia earlier
\nthis year ended in disappointment.<\/p>\n

The Giro was a setback for Hayter, who battled
\nstomach-related illness and left the race unable to show the form that had
\nbrought him early-season results. Since then, he has been working to rebuild,
\nusing the Tour de Pologne this week as a stepping stone towards the Vuelta.<\/p>\n

“I’m not great here, to be honest, compared to what I
\nexpected,” he told Cycling News. “But I’m working through it. I’m not
\nquite feeling myself, a bit slow and heavy. It’s a bit of a shame, I wanted to
\nstay a bit closer to GC and see what I could do there, maybe.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hayter acknowledged the challenge of finding form after a
\nlong gap from racing. “It’s been five weeks since my last race, so
\nhopefully I’ll be getting better as time goes on.” He added that while
\nnothing is guaranteed, the Vuelta is firmly in his plans. “I think I’m
\ndoing it, although until you’re on the plane, you never know for sure.”<\/p>\n

Hayter\u2019s only previous Grand Tour experience came with INEOS
\nGrenadiers, the team he left at the end of 2024 to join Quick-Step. That Giro
\ndebut earlier this year, illness aside, gave him a valuable reference point for
\nthree-week racing. “I only did that one Grand Tour with Ineos, so two is
\ngoing to be a bit of an unknown, but I came out of the Giro quite good,”
\nhe explained.<\/p>\n

His national titles, both on the road and against the clock,
\nprove his versatility, and he showed flashes of that form earlier in the
\nseason. “I did OK in Belgium and Nationals, so I want to get back to how I
\nwas there, feeling sharper in the races,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Vuelta will offer Hayter the opportunity to test himself
\nagain over three weeks, this time with a clearer sense of what to expect. With
\na mix of sprint stages, time trials, and testing climbs, the race could play to
\nhis all-round capabilities, provided he can recover the sharpness he had
\nearlier in the year.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully, I can improve there [in the Vuelta].
\nThere’s a bit of unfinished business there for sure,” he said, hinting at
\nhis determination to turn the season around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Hayter\u2019s first season at Soudal \u2013 Quick-Step has been something of a bumpy road. The 26-year-old British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-57025","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\/57025","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=57025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}