{"id":369066,"date":"2025-08-24T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T05:56:11","slug":"ethan-vernon-takes-second-on-vuelta-a-espana-debut-in-novara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369066\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Vernon takes second on Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a debut in Novara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was almost the perfect start: Ethan Vernon, making his debut in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, narrowly missed out on taking the victory and the maglia rossa in Saturday\u2019s opening stage in Novara, Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to win, but in the end, second is not bad, and it gives us confidence for the rest of the race,\u201d says Vernon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/israelpremiertech.com\/rider\/ethan-vernon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The British rider<\/a><\/strong>, who turns 25 on Tuesday, previously recorded his best Grand Tour stage result in last year\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia. He placed seventh on stage 3, which coincidentally started in Navara, the location of today\u2019s finish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/noA_IPT_-LaVuelta-2025_Stage1_279-741x494.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Vernon, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2025 stage 1\" width=\"741\" height=\"494\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25295\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Having been brilliantly supported by his IPT teammates \u2013 who were active in the peloton throughout the stage, and helped ensure that the day\u2019s six-rider breakaway never stood any chance of causing an upset \u2013 the Brit started the sprint and was only beaten to the line by 14-time Grand Tour stage winner\u00a0Jasper Philipsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were at the front and then we were at the back and then we were at the front again, so in the end, we took it up, which we weren\u2019t planning to do,\u201d says Vernon. \u201cIn the end, I had Jasper\u2019s wheel. He was super fast. I tried to jump him by taking the sprint up myself, but his lead-out man took me a bit wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/noA_IPT_-LaVuelta-2025_Stage1_521-741x494.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Vernon, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a 2025 stage 1\" width=\"741\" height=\"494\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25294\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t a million miles away, and we\u2019ve got four more opportunities. Anything can happen on a different day. So I\u2019m pretty confident we can go one further this race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sports Director Daryl Impey praised Vernon and his teammates\u2019 efforts, saying: \u201cI think we are right where we wanted to be. Obviously, we are sprinting against some top quality guys, but we were really close today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the team rode really well today, for the whole day. We probably exceeded the expectations in that final KM, having more guys there than we thought, so I think it just shows that we\u2019re building a nice group here for Ethan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthan taking the sprint up with 200 metres to go shows that he\u2019s got confidence in himself to go for the win, too, which is exciting to see.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was almost the perfect start: Ethan Vernon, making his debut in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, narrowly missed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-369066","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\/115082204717556668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369066","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=369066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}