In the end, Egan Bernal was the first to reach the eight-kilometre mark, where the official times were recorded. Vingegaard crossed the improvised finish line a little later alongside Sepp Kuss, Matteo Jorgenson, and the other favorites for the general classification. With five stages to go, the Dane still holds a 48-second lead over closest rival Jo\u00e3o Almeida.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that this has happened again\u201d, Vingegaard says afterwards, referring to the forced shortening of the stage. \u201cEveryone has a right to protest, but it\u2019s a shame that it has to happen here and in this way and that we can\u2019t finish the race. That should not happen. The team worked well today, and I would have loved to honour their work in the final of the race. It\u2019s a shame that the Spanish cycling fans did not get to see an exciting finale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomorrow brings another tough stage in Spain. For the tenth time this Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, the race will finish uphill, this time on Alto de El Morredero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the end, Egan Bernal was the first to reach the eight-kilometre mark, where the official times were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,141569,141568,16,15,141570],"class_list":{"0":"post-411616","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-the-finish-line-of-the-sixteenth-stage-was-moved-eight-kilometres-earlier-than-planned-race-leader-jonas-vingegaard-finished-safely-among-his-rivals","11":"tag-the-third-and-decisive-week-of-the-vuelta-a-espana-is-underway-due-to-protests","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-while-breakaway-rider-egan-bernal-took-the-stage-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115176851675169509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411616","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=411616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}