{"id":287312,"date":"2025-07-24T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287312\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:19:10","slug":"egan-bernal-is-back-to-lead-ambitious-ineos-grenadiers-at-vuelta-a-burgos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287312\/","title":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal is back to lead ambitious INEOS Grenadiers at Vuelta a Burgos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egan Bernal finished in the Top 10 overall of Volta a Catalunya (7th place), and in his big goal of the year, the Giro d&#8217;Italia, he repeated that 7th place after a race filled with attacks from the 28-year-old&#8217;s side. Although he wasn&#8217;t rewarded with neither inidividual success, nor a final podium, Bernal left a strong impression in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Bernal is expected to be one of the favorites to win the Vuelta a Burgos. He will be accompanied by some of INEOS&#8217; most reliable men in the mountains; Spaniards <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/omar-fraile\" title=\"Omar Fraile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Omar Fraile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/oscar-rodriguez\" title=\"\u00d3scar Rodr\u00edguez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00d3scar Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonathan-castroviejo\" title=\"Jonathan Castroviejo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Castroviejo<\/a>. Also riding for INEOS Grenadiers at the Vuelta a Burgos will be Bernal&#8217;s traditional partner in crime <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/brandon-rivera\" title=\"Brandon Rivera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Rivera<\/a>, and young talent <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/andrew-august\" title=\"Andrew August\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew August<\/a>. The selection is rounded off by newcomer <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/peter-oxenberg\" title=\"Peter Oxenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Oxenberg<\/a> who is expected to join the team from August 1 after having previously raced with partner team Lotto Kern-Haus in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal finished in the Top 10 overall of Volta a Catalunya (7th place), and in his big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287312","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114906999315587375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}