“It has been three tricky weeks, in which I felt strong in the first week and could win twice,” Responds Vingegaard through his Dutch team. “After that I had a more difficult phase, but luckily I got all the way through during the closing weekend. It was wonderful to put the crown on this Vuelta with my stage victory on Bola del Mundo.”
The Spanish stage race did not get a final stage in the capital. Pro-Palestinian campaigners had taken possession of the road in Madrid, which had to stop the peloton. This brought an early end to a competition that had to do with actions that were directed against the participation of cycling team Israel – Premier Tech.
Cheers at demonstrators in Vuelta
On Sunday, the Pro-Palestinian demonstrators were cheers when it became clear when it became clear that the Vuelta had come to an end. “Palestine won the Vuelta,” shouted the activists, who had stopped the peloton with a massive blockage of the road around 7 p.m.
The demonstrators lay the course. © ANP/HH
Actions were expected in the Spanish capital, where around 1900 agents had to prevent the final stage from the Spanish stage race to be hindered, as had already happened in Bilbao in recent weeks. Also there, in the eleventh stage, there could not be sprinted for the day’s victory. Later stages were forced to be shortened.
Last stage Vuelta also stopped by pro-Palestinian demonstrators: Jonas Vingegaard winner of his third big round
On Saturday, the peloton in the last mountain rit still had to cycle around a group of protesters. With their actions, they focused on the participation of cycling team Israel – Premier Tech on the Vuelta and on the military actions of Israel in Gaza, who have already killed tens of thousands of people.