Oscar Onley retained fifth overall after a high octane stage 13 of La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/p>\n
Netcompany INEOS rallied around their leader to protect his GC position, when a large break containing seventh-placed Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) threatened to overtake him.<\/p>\n
However, Jack Haig and Axel Laurance dropped back from the break to join the rest of the team to help set a strong pace and reduce the deficit to keep the status quo ahead of the key weekend of the race.<\/p>\n
A typically aggressive start to the stage saw a fight for the break, which eventually saw a large group go clear, including Laurance with Haig just behind.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately a crash for the French rider put paid to his breakaway hopes as the group split further over the hilly terrain.<\/p>\n
Skjelmose\u2019s group had a lead of close to four minutes over the bunch with 40km remaining, forcing action behind as Carlos Rodriguez, Embret Svestad-B\u00e5rdseng then Haig helping to close the gap as other teams joined too.<\/p>\n
As Wout van Aert won the stage from the break,\u00a0Onley finished in a reduced peloton to retain fifth overall ahead of a key GC test on Saturday when the stage finishes atop Sierra de la Pandera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Onley retained fifth overall after a high octane stage 13 of La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a Netcompany INEOS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760738","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\/760738","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=760738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}