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The Vuelta a España stage 18 time trial was cut from 27.2km to 12.2km due to ongoing pro-Palestinian protests causing race disruptions and heightened security deployment.
- The Vuelta a España organisers shortened Thursday's individual time trial in Valladolid from 27.2 km to 12.2 km to prevent disruptions from pro-Palestinian protests.
- This decision followed repeated disruptions including two stages cut short and Israel-Premier Tech riders being stopped by protesters during the race.
- Riders voted to neutralise stages if protests caused issues, aiming to avoid racing to 'undefined finish lines' as occurred in previous disrupted stages.
- Race leader Jonas Vingegaard holds a 50-second lead with four stages remaining, though the shorter time trial reduces chances of a classification shake-up according to organisers.
- The organisers and Spanish authorities plan heavy security with 1,500 police deployed to ensure the race finishes as scheduled in Madrid on Sunday without further disruption.
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Almost every day at the Vuelta a España, there is some kind of chaos caused by pro-Palestinian protesters. The main target is the team that also bears the name Israel, but all cyclists suffer from the situation: ad hoc rearranged stages, death threats, knocked down riders.
The 12 km single-time race of the Vuelta a Espana in Valladolid did not lead to any overturns in the overall classification. Dane Jonas Vingegaard kept the Red Jersey with a ninth place three days before the end of the cycling tour and is ahead of his first overall victory. Felix Gall needed as 29. 13:41 minutes, the East Tyrolean lost a rank and is now behind Matthew Riccitello from the USA total seventh. Fastest was the Italian Filippo Ganna o…
On Thursday, in the 18th stage in Valladollid (Spain), the Italian specialist of the exercise won a short time for safety reasons.
Two victories in two days. Italy of the cycling protagonist at the Vuelta of Spain first with Giulio Pellizzari, stage winner on Wednesday 10 September, today with Filippo Ganna, who managed to impose himself in the individual chronometer with departure and arrival in Valladolid of 12.2 kilometers. A short stop by the organization of 15 km, for fear of the many pro Palestine protests that are characterizing the cycling race among the most import…
Filippo Ganna wins the time trial in Valladolid as part of the 18th Vuelta stage. Stefan Küng will be 6.
At 12 o'clock in the morning, more than hours before the start of the clock of the Vuelta a España in Valladolid, a grandmother dressed with the kufiya (the marbling Palestinian handkerchief) shouts out: «Assassin». He tells a cyclist of the Bahrain who passes by the fenced area on the Pisuerga River. At 3 p.m., in full dispute of the time, at the same crossing of Isabella la Católica street with the bridge of the river, two groups of pro-Palest…
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