JONAS VINGEGAARD RECLAIMED the overall lead of the Vuelta a España on the stage five team-time trial on Wednesday, while Team UAE riders Juan Ayuso and Joao Almeida climbed to second and third.
As the 21-day race arrived in Spain after four days in Italy and France, the leaderboard was reshuffled with the three favourites top of the deck.
Team UAE won the 24.1km effort around Figueres in 25min and 26sec, with Vingegard’s Visma just eight seconds off that pace and Giulio Ciccone’s Lidl-Trek a further second off the pace in third on the day.
The result leaves the two-time Tour de France winner Vingegaard top of the overall standings, while UAE have Ayuso, Almeida and Marc Soler all at eight seconds behind with Italian climber Ciccone rounding out the top five.
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Some 15 national time-trial champions sporting their county’s colours on the course where the eight-rider teams needed to finish the race with four riders together, with pace men dropping off exhausted one by one.
Team Lotto were the first down the starters ramp under bright blue skies from right outside a giant pink castle decorated with croissants and boiled eggs designed by the surrealist artist Salvador Dali, who used to live in it.
Archie Ryan’s EF Education — EasyPost finished 14th, with Eddie Dunbar and Team Jayco AlUla home in 16th. Dunbar was fifth in his team, 1min 33secs behind a pack of four. Ryan was eighth and last in his, 2mins 20secs from the front.
Ryan is 61st in the general classification, with Dunbar 128th.
Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to block riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team.
A number of people with banners and Palestinian flags tried to disrupt the team owned by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams at the start of the fifth stage time-trial in Figueras, Catalonia.
On a video circulating on social media, three people can be seen holding a banner with the inscription “Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel” in Catalan, before being removed by race officials.
Some riders were forced to slow down, but no accidents were reported.
The Israel-Premier Tech team were also targeted during the Tour de France.
The race now enters the Pyrenees with two tough mountain stages that will test the legs of those who rode too hard on Wednesday.
Vingegaard reclaims lead, pro-Palestinian protestors target Israel-Premier Tech team
Updated at 19.22
JONAS VINGEGAARD RECLAIMED the overall lead of the Vuelta a España on the stage five team-time trial on Wednesday, while Team UAE riders Juan Ayuso and Joao Almeida climbed to second and third.
As the 21-day race arrived in Spain after four days in Italy and France, the leaderboard was reshuffled with the three favourites top of the deck.
Team UAE won the 24.1km effort around Figueres in 25min and 26sec, with Vingegard’s Visma just eight seconds off that pace and Giulio Ciccone’s Lidl-Trek a further second off the pace in third on the day.
The result leaves the two-time Tour de France winner Vingegaard top of the overall standings, while UAE have Ayuso, Almeida and Marc Soler all at eight seconds behind with Italian climber Ciccone rounding out the top five.
Some 15 national time-trial champions sporting their county’s colours on the course where the eight-rider teams needed to finish the race with four riders together, with pace men dropping off exhausted one by one.
Team Lotto were the first down the starters ramp under bright blue skies from right outside a giant pink castle decorated with croissants and boiled eggs designed by the surrealist artist Salvador Dali, who used to live in it.
Archie Ryan’s EF Education — EasyPost finished 14th, with Eddie Dunbar and Team Jayco AlUla home in 16th. Dunbar was fifth in his team, 1min 33secs behind a pack of four. Ryan was eighth and last in his, 2mins 20secs from the front.
Ryan is 61st in the general classification, with Dunbar 128th.
Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to block riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team.
A number of people with banners and Palestinian flags tried to disrupt the team owned by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams at the start of the fifth stage time-trial in Figueras, Catalonia.
On a video circulating on social media, three people can be seen holding a banner with the inscription “Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel” in Catalan, before being removed by race officials.
Some riders were forced to slow down, but no accidents were reported.
The Israel-Premier Tech team were also targeted during the Tour de France.
The race now enters the Pyrenees with two tough mountain stages that will test the legs of those who rode too hard on Wednesday.
– © AFP 2025
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