{"id":758102,"date":"2026-09-02T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758102\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:02:13","slug":"wout-van-aert-it-was-a-good-opportunity-for-me-so-that-was-plan-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758102\/","title":{"rendered":"Wout van Aert: &#8220;It was a good opportunity for me, so that was plan A&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe last 30 kilometres were chaotic and also super hard. It was like a never ending uphill part, dragging up slightly all the time. We had a plan today to try and control the race. In the end, we succeeded, but we had to use the whole team to make it a bunch sprint. Therefore I\u2019m really proud that we did it but on the other hand I found myself alone in the final kilometre and it was complicated to have a good position. There was not much left in the legs in the last 300 metres unfortunately. It was definitely plan A to sprint with me. It was a super hard day with a lot of uphill parts, which suits suits me well. It was a good opportunity for me, so that was plan A. But honestly, if I don\u2019t feel good it\u2019s such a luxury that we can spwitch roles and also Matty [Brennan] is a good chance on a sprint like this. We will hopefully continue like this and with how the team is going we will be successful also this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/img.aso.fr\/core_app\/img-cycling-vue-jpg\/trikots-10-01\/29390\/0:0,999:666-1000-0-70\/e8d3b\" class=\"js-jzoom\" role=\"button\" data-modal-type=\"image\" data-modal-class=\"modal__box--gutter is-modal-white\" data-modal-width=\"1000\" data-modal-height=\"auto\" data-xtclick=\"article::image::zoom\" data-clicktype=\"A\"><br \/>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure__image img--responsive lazyItem js-lazy\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 999 666&quot;%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"999\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6dbba.jpeg|https:\/\/img.aso.fr\/core_app\/img-cycling-vue-jpg\/trikots-10-01\/29390\/0:0,999:666-1998-0-70\/7ecde\" alt=\"01\/09\/2026 - La Vuelta 2026 - Stage 10 - Alcaraz &gt; Elche de la Sierra (184,7 Km) - Enric MAS (MOVISTAR TEAM), Wout VAN AERT (TEAM VISMA - LEASE A BIKE), Santiago BUITRAGO (BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS), Oscar ONLEY (NETCOMPANY INEOS CYCLING TEAM)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><br \/>\n                                01\/09\/2026 &#8211; La Vuelta 2026 &#8211; Stage 10 &#8211; Alcaraz &gt; Elche de la Sierra (184,7 Km) &#8211; Enric MAS (MOVISTAR TEAM), Wout VAN AERT (TEAM VISMA &#8211; LEASE A BIKE), Santiago BUITRAGO (BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS), Oscar ONLEY (NETCOMPANY INEOS CYCLING TEAM) \u00a9 Cxcling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe last 30 kilometres were chaotic and also super hard. It was like a never ending uphill part,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758102","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\/758102","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=758102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}