{"id":96509,"date":"2025-08-27T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:36:08","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-stage-5-live-race-lead-set-to-change-hands-in-figueres-team-time-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96509\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a stage 5 LIVE: Race lead set to change hands in Figueres team time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refresh <\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:33:15.467Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"1595461b-e05a-429b-8945-d212aeb8f633\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/vuelta-a-espana-team-time-trial-victory-not-a-realistic-goal-for-visma-lease-a-bike-following-axel-zingles-abandon\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/vuelta-a-espana-team-time-trial-victory-not-a-realistic-goal-for-visma-lease-a-bike-following-axel-zingles-abandon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a team time trial victory &#8216;not a realistic goal&#8217; for Visma-Lease a Bike following Axel Zingle&#8217;s abandon<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8216;Just calculate how much you lose if you suddenly have to start with seven riders instead of eight&#8217; says coach Mathieu Heijboer<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:76.17%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/QhFg8P8bQoExpiBoWF9SWT.jpg\" alt=\"NOVARA, ITALY - AUGUST 23: (L-R) Wilco Kelderman of Netherlands, Dylan Van Baarle of Netherlands and Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike compete during the La Vuelta - 80th Tour of Spain 2025, Stage 1 a 186.7km stage from Torino-Reggia di Venaria to Novara \/ #UCIWT \/ on August 23, 2025 in Novara, Italy. (Photo by Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/QhFg8P8bQoExpiBoWF9SWT.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/QhFg8P8bQoExpiBoWF9SWT.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:29:56.301Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"580dfa98-f9a1-43e9-8240-6ca219d8b1ae\">10 minutes to the start!<\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:23:54.288Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"97455f2c-05a5-40aa-beb4-d045d79ae807\">Check out the full <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/vuelta-a-espana-2025-stage-5-team-time-trial-start-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/vuelta-a-espana-2025-stage-5-team-time-trial-start-times\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stage 5 team time trial start times<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:14:04.725Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"f7e26c68-0807-4e26-a2ac-3c1c2a78f2de\">Read our stage 5 preview here as the race hits Spain for the first time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/vuelta-a-espana-2025\/stage-5\/preview\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/vuelta-a-espana-2025\/stage-5\/preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2025 stage 5 preview &#8211; Flat Team Time Trial marks return to Spanish soil for Grand Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:08:14.893Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"11630e9d-da7c-4a4c-bbb5-ce6b36bef0a9\">Here&#8217;s a look at the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/the-current-gc-standings-at-the-vuelta-a-espana-2025\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/the-current-gc-standings-at-the-vuelta-a-espana-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">current GC standings<\/a> after stage 4.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-4dea36eb-a129-43cd-9246-5c9aa451d291\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:05:42.590Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"f99c5788-e15f-42eb-825c-3b9bc6b488a2\">Just over half an hour to go until the stage begins with Lotto.<\/p>\n<p>2025-08-27T14:03:28.323Z<\/p>\n<p id=\"1eec5ea1-a182-4874-a08f-ee8c7cb6a98a\">Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 5!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Here&#8217;s a look at the profile of today&#8217;s stage. All flat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:49.14%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jK4C6u9vLLqGEWmvBf9tK3.png\" alt=\"Stage profile for the 2025 Vuelta a Espa&amp;ntilde;a\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jK4C6u9vLLqGEWmvBf9tK3.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jK4C6u9vLLqGEWmvBf9tK3.png\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Lavuelta.es)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2025-08-27T14:33:15.467Z Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a team time trial victory &#8216;not a realistic goal&#8217; for Visma-Lease a Bike following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-96509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96509","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=96509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}