{"id":598907,"date":"2026-05-23T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598907\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:21:08","slug":"no-gc-change-ahead-of-mountain-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598907\/","title":{"rendered":"No GC change ahead of mountain test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">There was no movement in the overall standings as Alberto Bettiol (XDS Astana) took the stage win from the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Filippo Ganna was keen to make the break, but was denied on multiple occasions by an aggressive peloton that wanted to deny the Italian victory in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Once the escapees had a sufficient gap, the peloton eased and allowed their advantage to grow, with Thymen Arensman, Egan Bernal and other GC riders keen to preserve energy ahead of stage 14\u2019s mountain test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earlier, Filippo Ganna and Connor Swift had been active in trying to get into the breakaway &#8211; which would seem pivotal due to the flat nature of the stage,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, Ganna was a marked man and his multiple efforts to escape were denied by the bunch behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A break finally went clear after around 45 minutes of cat and mouse chasing, which then saw the peloton reduce the pace ahead of a key weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Arensman and Bernal finished in a reduced bunch which finished over 13 minutes behind winner Bettiol, with attention already switched to stage 14&#8217;s GC test.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no movement in the overall standings as Alberto Bettiol (XDS Astana) took the stage win from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598907","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\/598907","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=598907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}