{"id":46337,"date":"2026-08-25T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana-stage-three-abandoned-because-of-hail\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:38:13","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-stage-three-abandoned-because-of-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana-stage-three-abandoned-because-of-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espana stage three abandoned because of hail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The third stage of the Vuelta a Espana was abandoned on Monday because of severe weather and hailstorms in the French Pyrenees.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A severe hailstorm hit as the riders scaled the Col de Mont-Louis with 15km (9.32 miles) remaining of the 174km ride from Gruissan to Font-Romeu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall race leader and favourite Tadej Pogacar was seen indicating to the main group to pull off the course and soon afterwards drenched riders took shelter in a nearby hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly afterwards organisers announced the stage would not resume and there would be no winner or podium ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conditions had been warm and sunny on the flat approach to the mountainous finish with a five-man breakaway group out in front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Slovenian Pogacar, aiming to complete his Grand Tour collection by winning the Vuelta for the first time, was always near the front of the pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pogacar won the opening stage time trial on Saturday, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c62q2qzg65go\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Britain&#8217;s Matt Brennan sprinted to victory<\/a> in the second stage on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuesday&#8217;s fourth stage &#8211; the first mountain stage of the tour &#8211; is a 104.8km route that starts and finishes in Andorran capital Andorra la Vella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Vuelta a Espana general classification after stage three abandoned<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tadej Pogacar (Slo\/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 4 hours 58mins 40secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wout van Aert (Bel\/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +9secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Brennan (GB\/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +10secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leo Bisiaux (Fra\/Decathlon-CMA CGM) +12secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finn Fisher-Black (NZ\/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +14secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stefan Kung (Sui\/Tudor Pro Cycling Team) +18secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) same time<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mads Pedersen (Den\/Lidl-Trek) +20secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Primoz Roglic (Slo\/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe +26secs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordan Labrosse (Fra\/Decathlon-CMA CGM) +27secs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c1e5p00px33o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third stage of the Vuelta a Espana was abandoned on Monday because of severe weather and hailstorms in the French Pyrenees. A severe hailstorm hit as the riders scaled the Col de Mont-Louis with 15km (9.32 miles) remaining of the 174km ride from Gruissan to Font-Romeu. Overall race leader and favourite Tadej Pogacar was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46339,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46337\/revisions\/46339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}