{"id":613075,"date":"2026-05-31T03:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:29:13","slug":"arensman-and-bernal-head-to-rome-in-fourth-and-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613075\/","title":{"rendered":"Arensman and Bernal head to Rome in fourth and 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thymen Arensman will ride into Rome in fourth place overall at the Giro d&#8217;Italia, with Egan Bernal holding 10th place following the final day of climbing.<\/p>\n<p>The pair crossed the line in fifth and sixth place after two back to back ascents of Piancavallo, retaining their GC positions after a great display of teamwork on stage 20.<\/p>\n<p>Bernal put in a huge turn to help pace Arensman back to the group of chasing GC contenders ahead. The Colombian set a strong tempo and continued on the front as the Netcompany INEOS pair overhauled the gap to Felix Gall (Decathlon CMA CGM), Jai Hindley (Red Bull &#8211; Bora &#8211; Hansgrohe) and Derek Gee-West (Lidl-Trek).<\/p>\n<p>Up ahead Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) had soloed clear with around 11km to go to claim victory and cement his grip on the maglia rosa for 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Jack Haig had pushed on up the road as part of the day&#8217;s early breakaway. The Aussie led the group over the first pass of Piancavallo, before dropping back into the GC group late on.<\/p>\n<p>The action concludes in the Italian capital of Rome on Sunday, with riders required to cross the line safely to make sure of their final positions on the general classification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thymen Arensman will ride into Rome in fourth place overall at the Giro d&#8217;Italia, with Egan Bernal holding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613075","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\/613075","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=613075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}