{"id":407420,"date":"2025-09-08T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407420\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:02:10","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-crash-caused-by-pro-palestinian-protester-on-stage-15-as-mads-pedersen-wins-with-jonas-vingegaard-still-the-overall-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407420\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espana: Crash caused by pro-Palestinian protester on stage 15 as Mads Pedersen wins with Jonas Vingegaard still the overall leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lidl-Trek rider Pedersen earned his first victory of this year’s race with a blistering sprint on the home straight.<\/p>\n

Pedersen burst past Italy’s Marco Frigo on the final stretch of what was classed as a medium mountain stage to seal victory in four hours, two minutes and 13 seconds.<\/p>\n

Frigo, riding for Israel-Premier Tech, the team targeted by the protests, came in third behind Orluis Aular of Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Pedersen’s team-mates worked hard for him in the day’s large breakaway to give him his chance to win the stage.<\/p>\n

“The boys were working so hard to make it possible,” Pedersen said.<\/p>\n

“In the end it makes it even nicer to win when everyone is looking at us, everyone knew our plan, and still we succeed.<\/p>\n

“When Frigo went [with] 700 to 800 metres to go it was perfect, because he provided a leadout. I was closing him slowly and at the corner it was time to open the sprint.”<\/p>\n

The peloton, featuring Pedersen’s compatriot Vingegaard and the other main contenders, finished 13-and-a-half minutes after the winner crossed the line.<\/p>\n

After a rest day on Monday, the race resumes with stage 16 on Tuesday, a 167.9km with another medium mountain stretch from Poio to Castro de Herville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lidl-Trek rider Pedersen earned his first victory of this year’s race with a blistering sprint on the home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407420","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\/115167870547201681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407420","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=407420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}