Cycing-Vingegaard Celebrates Vuelta Win in Park, Atop Drinks Cooler
Pro-Palestine protests disrupted the final stage, forcing an early race end and cancellation of the official podium, with winners celebrating on an improvised podium in a hotel parking lot.
- The 2025 Vuelta a España cycling race was abandoned on Sunday in Madrid due to pro-Palestine protests blocking the final stage and canceling official podium celebrations.
- The protests targeted the Israel-Premier Tech team amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which followed Hamas' attack on Israel in October 2023.
- Teams quickly arranged an unofficial ceremony in a hotel car park using cooler boxes as podiums to present jerseys marking riders’ achievements after the official ceremony was canceled.
- Danish champion Jonas Vingegaard described his victory as a perfect conclusion to the Vuelta, while his team highlighted the heartfelt and genuine nature of the celebration, emphasizing their passion for the sport.
- The disruptions highlighted political tensions impacting the race, with Spain’s government defending protests as a defense of human rights amid ongoing conflict.
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The worst-managed Grand Tour in recent cycling history ended in a fittingly ramshackle manner on Sunday, with the final stage of the Vuelta a España canceled due to overwhelming anti-genocide protests and no official podium ceremony for the riders who had just destroyed their legs for three weeks. Instead Visma put together a makeshift podium composed of three coolers with numbers Sharpied onto them in front of an official Vuelta banner duct-tap…
The disturbing pictures of the demolition of the last Vuelta stage should go back to the history of sport. The pictures of the award ceremony but also. In a parking lot the stars make the corks pop. An ex-world champion is in great concern.
Cycing-Vingegaard celebrates Vuelta win in park, atop drinks cooler
It was hardly the stage Jonas Vingegaard had expected for his coronation as winner of La Vuelta a Espana but the Dane did at least manage to celebrate on an improvised podium in a parking lot after pro-Palestine demonstrations ended the race early.Protesters pulled down barriers and swarmed the course in cent
The altercations cancelled the official podium, but cyclists improvised the party in a hotel with refrigerators, music and cava.
After the cancellation of the final stage of the Tour of Spain, many cyclists were quite disappointed. The teams organized their own awards ceremony in the parking lot in the evening.
Jonas Vingegaard won his first Vuelta a España this Sunday in a day that was tarnished by the propalestine protests that forced to suspend the last stage. The Danish cyclist lamented that with this episode he was “stole that moment of eternity” of not being able to celebrate his victory, that he also had no podium ceremony to use. “It is a pity that they have stolen that moment of eternity. I am very sad. I was happy to be able to celebrate it w…
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