Bernal Wins As Another Vuelta Stage Cut Short By Protests

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Egan Bernal of Colombia and Team INEOS Grenadiers competes successful nan breakaway during nan La Vuelta

ByAdwaidh Rajan

BBC Sport journalist

France's Egan Bernal won shape 16 of nan Vuelta a Espana that had to beryllium shortened by 8 kilometres because of pro-Palestinian protests.

Protests aimed astatine nan Israel-Premier Tech squad person disrupted respective stages of this year's race, including shape 11 which was shortened without a victor past week.

However, connected Tuesday, nan title board decided nan victor and took times early aft "a large protestation astatine 3 km earlier nan decorativeness line".

The shape was scheduled to tally on a 168km agelong from Poio to Castro de Herville earlier it was trim short.

In Sunday's shape 15, a protestor caused a insignificant crash that progressive Spain's Javier Romo, who abandoned this year's title connected Tuesday saying he was "not emotion very well, mentally aliases physically".

The 26-year-old Movistar rider had suffered "only bruises" during nan autumn and was capable to complete nan title connected Sunday but discontinue pinch 80km to spell successful shape 16.

The squad clip proceedings successful shape 5 was besides disrupted erstwhile nan Israel-Premier Tech team, owned by Israeli-Canadian businessman Sylvan Adams, were stopped connected nan road by a group of protesters holding Palestinian flags.

Bernal, riding for Ineos Grenadiers, secured nan triumph connected shape 16 successful 3 hours, 35 minutes and 10 seconds, finishing up of Spanish rider Mikel Landa.

France's Brieuc Rolland took 3rd spot while British rider Finlay Pickering, 22, vanished eighth.

Two-time Tour de France victor Jonas Vingegaard remains apical of nan wide classification pinch Joao Almeida 48 seconds behind, while Great Britain's Tom Pidcock sits third.

Friday will spot different mean upland shape stretching 143km from O Barco de Valdeorras to Ponferrada.

The Israeli subject launched a run successful Gaza successful consequence to nan Hamas-led onslaught connected confederate Israel connected 7 October 2023, successful which astir 1,200 group were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At slightest 64,605 group person been killed successful Israeli attacks successful Gaza since then, according to nan territory's wellness ministry.