{"id":665487,"date":"2026-06-30T04:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665487\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:50:33","slug":"the-art-of-the-pre-tour-de-france-altitude-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665487\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of the pre-Tour de France altitude training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stepping out of Juan Ayuso\u2019s cosy rented apartment that has been repurposed from a ski chalet into a cyclist\u2019s cabin, the setting sun is casting its last golden rays against Pico Veleta. At 3,398m high, it\u2019s Europe\u2019s highest road, inaccessible beyond 2,900m and blocked by eight-metre snow walls.<\/p>\n

But figuring out a way to the top of Veleta is not The Athletic\u2019s principal interest right now.<\/p>\n

Four-time Tour de France champion Tadej Poga\u010dar and his partner, AG Insurance\u2013Soudal rider Ur\u0161ka \u017digart, are holding hands like a pair of teenage lovers. Up ahead, 2026 Paris-Roubaix winner Wout van Aert is engrossed in a phone call.<\/p>\n

Across the road from them at the Sierra Nevada ski station in southern Spain, Paul Seixas and his Decathlon CMA CGM team-mates are absorbed by what appears to be an impromptu game of hide and seek, with four or five of them crowding around the back of a telecommunications box, laughing and joking in French like the school-age child Seixas was just one year ago. They are seemingly oblivious to the five deer that have just skipped straight past them.<\/p>\n

Scattered along the road are dozens of other WorldTour cyclists, each of them dressed in oversized puffer jackets and woolly hats.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an absurd, surreal scene. Like a real-life sitcom of cycling superstars set on what feels like Europe\u2019s most isolated street.<\/p>\n

At the far end of Calle del Torcal is the high performance CAR centre which at 2,320m above sea level houses the continent\u2019s highest soccer pitch, athletics track and Olympic-sized swimming pool. Not to mention pole vaulting apparatus, boxing rings and other sporting facilities. It\u2019s a playground for the sporting elite.<\/p>\n

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\n By May the region\u2019s ski season has long passed (Chris Marshall-Bell\/The Athletic)<\/p>\n

Along the rest of the street, apartments and ski lodges are playing host to pretty much the entire Tour de France peloton. Jonas Vingegaard, en route to comfortably winning the Giro d\u2019Italia, is one of the absent few.<\/p>\n

For several weeks every May, riders who will be fierce adversaries in the month of July come together as neighbours in Sierra Nevada. They live in the same communal blocks, share the same roads, and exchange smiles and the odd wave. But friends they are not \u2014 they are here to build the foundations for their next tussle.<\/p>\n

The plot structure of this bizarre soap opera is mindlessly repetitive, but incredibly effective: every day the cast wakes up, whizzes down towards the beautiful city of Granada to complete a training loop, and then slogs 1,500m of elevation back up to what has been converted from a buzzing and bustling ski resort (with the world\u2019s fourth highest snowfall this past winter) into a mostly abandoned settlement, where just two of the 100+ bars, restaurants and nightclubs are open.<\/p>\n

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\n A sense of loneliness pervades Sierra Nevada in May (Chris Marshall-Bell\/The Athletic)<\/p>\n

There are no adoring fans, no champagne bottles to be uncorked, and no trophies to be lifted. Professional cycling isn\u2019t too glamorous at the best of times, but a Sierra Nevada altitude training camp in May certainly isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

One rider jokingly quips to The Athletic \u201cit\u2019s like being locked in a prison\u201d. A part-obligatory, part-voluntary sentence it is, though.<\/p>\n

To be at one\u2019s best at the biggest bike race in the world, altitude training is a necessity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are not doing an altitude camp it\u2019s very difficult to perform well in a Grand Tour,\u201d says Lidl-Trek veteran Carlos Verona. \u201cYou see all the Tour de France is here now preparing for the race because it\u2019s something we all need to do. In the past it was something extra; now it\u2019s a basic part of training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verona will be riding at the Tour in support of his 23-year-old compatriot Ayuso, who, along with Poga\u010dar, Seixas and Remco Evenepoel, each request extra days and weeks to soak up the oxygen-boosting benefits of living at altitude before hopefully reaping them at the Tour.<\/p>\n

Life in remote confinement in Europe\u2019s southernmost winter resort is where Tour de France winners are built. So The Athletic heads along to experience what it\u2019s like to live (for a few days, thankfully, not weeks) on cycling\u2019s peculiar answer to Days of Our Lives.<\/p>\n

Training at altitude was first popularised for endurance athletes after the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City which were held at an elevation of around 2,200m. Those who had prepared in high-altitude environments performed significantly better than those who did not, proving a turning point in sports science.<\/p>\n

Since the Mexico Games, studies have highlighted that spending two to three weeks at an altitude between 2,000m and 2,500m increases the production of red blood cells and natural erythropoietin (EPO) levels, which in turn allows athletes to perform longer and more difficult efforts.<\/p>\n

A common misconception is that there\u2019s less oxygen at altitude. Oxygen levels remain at 21 per cent. But there is less oxygen pressure \u2014 essentially the air is thinner \u2014 forcing the athlete to work harder to adapt to a less oxygen-friendly environment.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until the 1990s that cyclists started embracing altitude \u2014 or sleeping in hypoxic altitude tents at home which simulates high-altitude environments \u2014 but that was mostly limited to the top riders.<\/p>\n

Team Sky (now known as Netcompany-INEOS) changed the game in the early 2010s when they started taking all their riders to altitude \u2014 usually to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and since post-Covid it\u2019s become the norm for climbers and GC specialists to spend more time training at altitude than racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done one altitude trip every one of my 16 years as a pro, but in the past few years I\u2019ve done three a year. In 2023 I spent more than 100 nights at altitude,\u201d Verona says. Most WorldTour pros don\u2019t ride more than 75 race days per year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember coming to Sierra Nevada in 2017 with Astana and we were alone,\u201d says Aritz Arberas, a coach at Lidl-Trek. \u201cNowadays Teide is full, Andorra too, Livigno and Isola as well. Find any altitude location and you\u2019ll find athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reason is simple: not only does science extol the benefits, but results \u2014 the most influential form of evidence \u2014 do, too. \u201cI\u2019ve worked with maybe 500 different riders, and I only know three for whom altitude doesn\u2019t work for them,\u201d Arberas says.<\/p>\n

One of those riders is Lidl-Trek\u2019s Mads Pedersen. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t help him, and he can achieve very good values and his perfect performance without altitude but there are very, very few riders who are like that,\u201d Arberas adds.<\/p>\n

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\n Mads Pedersen is one of the few WorldTour pros who doesn\u2019t derive any benefit from altitude training (NICO VEREECKEN \/ BELGA MAG \/ Belga \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The first thing that strikes any May visitor to Sierra Nevada \u2014 which means the snowy mountain range in Spanish \u2014 is how soulless it feels.<\/p>\n

Lonely chairlifts rock back and forth in the wind, nightclubs are shut, and car parks lay empty. The resort has slipped into hibernation, leaving behind a concrete skeleton of hotels and apartment blocks that on the busiest winter weekends can accommodate 20,000 visitors.<\/p>\n

Right now, there\u2019s no one up here and little to do. It\u2019s nothing more than a ghost town.<\/p>\n

The Athletic heads out for for a run in search of people and activity. Lidl-Trek\u2019s Mathias Vacek is sympathetic when we tell him of the struggles in the thin air. \u201cThe first two days you\u2019re here\u2026 woah, everything is so much tougher,\u201d he says. \u201cEverything feels doubly as hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all training. Ten riders and staff members from the Norwegian Uno-X Mobility team are returning to their apartments with several foot-long model airplanes that they had been flying with remote controllers.<\/p>\n

Then we see Poga\u010dar, \u017digart and a few more UAE riders admiring the setting sun which Verona describes as \u201cthe best sunset in the world.\u201d He adds: \u201cEvery day it\u2019s amazing.\u201d He\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n

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\n The sunsets from high on the mountain are something to behold (Chris Marshall-Bell\/The Athletic)<\/p>\n

The next day it\u2019s Seixas\u2019 turn with his Decathlon squad to head to the sunset vantage point which is ordinarily a rudimentary guardrail at a fork in the road. A sign says: \u2018Granada 32\u2019. Thirty-two kilometres to civilisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sleep as long as possible to kill the time,\u201d answers 24-year-old Vacek when I ask him what he does in his free time. \u201cI have my computer and play some games like Call of Duty, and with Lenny (K\u00e4mna, his Lidl-Trek team-mate) we also play table tennis which is quite fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lidl-Trek\u2019s Tour leader Ayuso reveals that a penalty shootout has also been organised for the team\u2019s next recovery day. \u201cWe\u2019ve found some activities, yeah,\u201d Vacek continues, \u201cbut it\u2019s not like you can go into the city and drink a coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some do more than socialise, though. Juanpe L\u00f3pez, formerly of Lidl-Trek and now of Movistar, met his girlfriend \u2014 a runner \u2014 at the CAR centre two years ago.<\/p>\n

The vast majority, however, are away from their loved ones. Staving off boredom and keeping insanity at bay can lead to questionable decisions.<\/p>\n

Last year, riders from multiple teams holed up in Sierra Nevada held unofficial races to try to claim downhill Strava KOM segments. Riders crashed, team directors fumed, and according to Vacek, the race is no more. \u201cIt can be dangerous and we said on day one we don\u2019t want to risk anything on the downhill,\u201d the Czech says.<\/p>\n

But a new fastest time from UAE\u2019s Florian Vermeersch<\/a> on June 2 of this year \u2014 23km at an average speed of 75kmh \u2014 suggests that not everyone has adhered.<\/p>\n

An unidentified \u2018Secret Pro\u2019, writing in Escape Collective<\/a> last year, gave an indication of why. \u201cIt was our only way of escaping\u2026 the only time to have fun at altitude is when going downhill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even the lonely vending machine housed in the CAR centre is stripped back of all joy: one solitary bag of tempting Oreos is the only snack that can be considered unhealthy, sitting incongruously next to a range of nutritional and protein bars.<\/p>\n

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\n Riders killing time with a game of table tennis (Chris Marshall-Bell\/The Athletic)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason it\u2019s like this though: it\u2019s a place to knuckle down. \u201cI was really looking forward to coming here even one month before,\u201d Verona says, \u201cbecause it\u2019s where you do everything as best as you can to try to be in your best possible shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt from the first day I was here that this was the moment to work hard. It\u2019s difficult to be away from my kids and my family, but it\u2019s very easy to be focused when I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sierra Nevada isn\u2019t the only altitude destination, but in May it\u2019s where the Tour peloton comes to build their condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of benefits of being here in May,\u201d Lidl-Trek coach Arberas says. \u201cThe weather is key, and it\u2019s often hot weather which helps us get ready for the summer. The routes are also very good: you can find long climbs, flat sections, and roads at altitude. Lots of different options that in other places you cannot find. And then there\u2019s the CAR training centre, where we use their resources like the sauna, ice baths and gyms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verona and six of his Lidl-Trek team-mates were training at Sierra Nevada from May 12 to May 29, while Ayuso stayed on an extra week before the Tour Auvergne Rh\u00f4ne Alpes (formerly known as the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9) where he finished third overall.<\/p>\n

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\n Lidl-Trek riders get their lactate levels tested during a training ride (Chris Marshall-Bell\/The Athletic)<\/p>\n

Alongside the riders were 15 staff members and three team vehicles. \u201cWhen you came to altitude in the past it was basic and you did everything yourself,\u201d Verona says. \u201cNow it\u2019s easy as you\u2019re surrounded by team-mates and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a team effort to make sure the riders are in optimal condition. \u201cEvery morning we measure their weight, heart rate variability, resting heat rate, oxygen saturation and various other values with the doctor to understand how their fatigue is evolving,\u201d Arberas says. \u201cWe\u2019re very careful about monitoring their training volume to make sure that their bodies adapt to the altitude as best as possible to be able to train well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re paid to only think about riding our bikes,\u201d Ayuso says. \u201cWe come back (from training) and we have everything done for us. We eat super good food and we\u2019ve got the best soigneurs (masseurs), physios, doctors, whatever. I just feel super grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

A light frost on the ground greets the riders when they wake up on the day that The Athletic sits in a team car following Lidl-Trek\u2019s training. They descend to Monachil, a village just outside of Granada, in full winter clothing, and then take off layers and apply suncream. The temperature difference from peak to valley is a staggering 15C\/27F.<\/p>\n

The seven riders have a 175km route planned with 3,500m of elevation gain, and on each of the three climbs they will perform a 15-minute interval test riding at 80 per cent of their heart rate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at their lactate, power and heart rate figures,\u201d Arberas explains at the start of the day. \u201cWe last did this training session in January. We want to see how their power rates have changed, and how their power decreases from the first to the last climb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arberas takes a blood sample from each rider\u2019s ear \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s easier and cleaner than the finger,\u201d he says \u2014 and a machine delivers the lactate results in 15 seconds. His helper, ex-Ethiopian pro Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael who escaped the devastating war in Tigray<\/a> on foot in 2020 to pursue his cycling dream, asks each rider for their perceived rate of exertion (RPE) from 0-10.<\/p>\n

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\n A machine can deliver lactate results 15 seconds after a rider\u2019s blood sample has been taken (Chris Marshall-Bell\/The Athletic)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hot, sunny day, and the riders feel the effort more and more as the ride progresses. On the first climb, La Gallina (translated as \u2018the chicken\u2019), the average RPE is two. On El Purche, the final ascent, Mattias Skjelmose moans, \u201cI was f***ing cooking,\u201d and K\u00e4mna says, \u201cIt was nasty in the heat.\u201d Two riders give an RPE of 5.5.<\/p>\n

Yet isn\u2019t just on the climbs that the riders are made to work hard: the seven Lidl-Trek riders are split into three different groups on the road. \u201cWe realised that when they\u2019re training as a group, the ones at the back aren\u2019t pedalling enough and are riding at a very low intensity,\u201d Arberas explains. \u201cSo we put them into smaller groups so they have to pedal at their power target.\u201d No drafting on training camp.<\/p>\n

Other riders from other teams are suffering too. Decathlon\u2019s riders begin a time trial session from the Mayerling cafe 12km south of Granada, which every May doubles up as the WorldTour peloton\u2019s rendezvous spot.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Julian Alaphilippe, agonisingly close to winning the 2019 Tour de France, is panting and breathing heavily when he and two Tudor riders come past the Lidl-Trek car. The Frenchman does have enough energy, though, to jokingly ask Arberas, \u201cWhat\u2019s the time gap?\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a race, it\u2019s training, but everyone\u2019s competitive. Everyone\u2019s eyeing everyone else up. By the end of this ride, Ayuso has burned 5,000 calories. He\u2019s also got a visit to the doctor scheduled.<\/p>\n

Just before the day\u2019s second climb, Puerto del Legionario, Ayuso is stung by a bee on his left bicep \u2014 almost exactly a year to the day since he withdrew from the 2025 Giro d\u2019Italia due to a negative reaction to a bee sting on his right eye.<\/p>\n

Calls are frantically made to multiple team doctors to conjure up the best plan in case of another flare-up, and The Athletic leans out of the team car to pass Ayuso ice to apply to the affected area. The first ice cube pass him falls out of his sleeve. Multi-tasking on the bike is difficult even for the pros.<\/p>\n

At first the Spaniard seems as concerned as team staff, but it soon becomes apparent that there will be no repeat of the Giro drama.<\/p>\n

Come the final climb, his bee sting is forgotten, replaced by another flash of adrenaline. \u201cEnorme\u201d \u2014 enormous \u2014 he says of the large snake he\u2019s just ridden past. \u201cIncre\u00edble.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the decision is made that Ayuso will not ride the final 10km up to Sierra Nevada on his time trial bike as per the rest of his team-mates. Why? Because managing physiological stresses at altitude is far more critical than when at sea-level, and Ayuso\u2019s body now has a bee sting to react to on top of the high-altitude environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpending 24 hours a day at altitude is an extra load for the body, and the lower oxygen saturation means the body has to work harder and therefore consume more energy,\u201d Arberas says.<\/p>\n

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\n The city of Granada sits at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains (JORGE GUERRERO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Ayuso is fine. His four weeks at altitude will not become defined by a bee sting. He, like everyone else here, experiences the benefits of living in a deserted ski town vacated by everyone else but them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen riders get used to the altitude after a bit of time \u2014 for some it takes only a few days, others a bit longer \u2014 there are changes in blood haemoglobin concentration, vascular adaptation like blood plasma, and a bunch of other adaptations that leads the body to have a better performance after the training camp,\u201d Arberas says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why riders simply must come.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nigh-on impossible to give an accurate percentage figure of each individual athlete\u2019s improvement at altitude, but the anecdotal evidence speaks for itself. \u201cIf you have a very talented young rider and he is responding to altitude, we can expect to see power records broken for every duration,\u201d Arberas says.<\/p>\n

The aforementioned Seixas, France\u2019s 19-year-old darling, seemingly did exactly that when at Sierra Nevada in May, racking up a Grand Tour equivalent of 48,000m of elevation gain across 16 days of training. Two days later he went to the Col du Tourmalet in the French Pyrenees and reset the Strava KOM.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar, the man everyone is gunning for in the Tour, made an impression on others. \u201cHe looked very thin,\u201d Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe\u2019s Maxim Van Gils said.<\/p>\n

His leanness is not a surprise. \u201cA benefit of being up here is that your metabolism is faster and it\u2019s easier to lose weight without making such a big sacrifice,\u201d Verona says.<\/p>\n

But to maximise altitude\u2019s many advantages, athletes have to respect the extra strain placed upon the body. \u201cYou need to be really careful in the first few days and take it easy, not do anything stupid like training your arse from the first day,\u201d says Vacek. \u201cThe most important thing at altitude is the adaptation and slowly building up.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just climbers who decamp to the high mountains. \u201cCycling is mostly aerobic, and altitude helps improve aerobic capacity,\u201d Arberas says. \u201cIn the case of a sprinter, if you\u2019re stronger aerobically, you arrive at the end of the stage fresher and can sprint better.\u201d<\/p>\n

To illustrate the point, Lidl-Trek sprinter Jonathan Milan was at Sierra Nevada for three weeks last May before his maiden Tour. \u201cSprinters feel it\u2019s unnatural for them, but then Jonny had incredible results in the Tour, winning two stages and the green jersey (usually won by the best sprinter),\u201d Arberas says. \u201cThe altitude effect definitely worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Sprinter Jonathan Milan benefited from altitude training before winning the green jersey at the 2025 Tour de France (MARCO BERTORELLO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Most Tour riders, with the notable exception of Giro winner Vingegaard, rode the Tour Auvergne Rh\u00f4ne Alpes or Tour de Suisse in June to test their race sharpness before Le Tour.<\/p>\n

Then, for many, it was back to solitary living, escaping to abandoned towns perched on top of mountains only accessible by a long, winding road. Tignes, Isola and Livigno in the Alps were the most popular choices. Sierra Nevada in late June, and especially the valleys below, is just a bit too hot. Africa, after all, is only 200km away.<\/p>\n

Others, like Vacek, return home but sleep in an altitude tent. Some go to hypoxic altitude hotels, like the Syncrosfera in D\u00e9nia, Spain, favoured by Mathieu van der Poel.<\/p>\n

Wherever they go, the rewards \u2014 if everything has gone as it ought to \u2014 are the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends from person to person, but for me and how I experience altitude, if I didn\u2019t come here I\u2019d be 20 per cent worse off,\u201d Vacek says. \u201cIt\u2019s the whole package: I lose weight, climb better, and it\u2019s where I can really focus. I\u2019m here only for work, that\u2019s it. If you want to compete in the Tour, coming here is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arberas, one of the coaches tasked with ensuring Lidl-Trek\u2019s riders are in their best possible condition at the Tour, echoes Vacek\u2019s beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were the only ones not coming to altitude, for sure we wouldn\u2019t win anything,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019d be losing a big percentage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf everyone didn\u2019t come then riders would be less consistent at the Tour. It\u2019d be a different cycling. But cycling has evolved and we do come to altitude. Nowadays it\u2019s not an extra \u2014 it\u2019s a minimum. It\u2019s what you have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why riders flock en masse to some of Europe\u2019s most isolated mountain hideaways. In July, the watching public will see the finished product. But it\u2019s in the thin air of Sierra Nevada in May where the Tour de France is won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stepping out of Juan Ayuso\u2019s cosy rented apartment that has been repurposed from a ski chalet into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,417,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-global-sports","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665487","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=665487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}