{"id":3467,"date":"2024-08-20T20:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana-primoz-roglic-wins-stage-four-to-take-red-jersey\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:47:55","slug":"vuelta-a-espana-primoz-roglic-wins-stage-four-to-take-red-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/vuelta-a-espana-primoz-roglic-wins-stage-four-to-take-red-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelta a Espana: Primoz Roglic wins stage four to take red jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Three-time champion Primoz Roglic won the first mountain stage of this year’s Vuelta a Espana to claim the race leader’s red jersey.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Slovenian edged past Lennert van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny) on the line to clinch Tuesday’s fourth stage after a gruelling 14km climb to Pico Villuercas in searing heat.<\/p>\n

Belgium’s Van Eetvelt celebrated what would have been a first Grand Tour stage win too early, throwing one arm in the air just as Roglic overtook him.<\/p>\n

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Roglic was 30 seconds behind general classification leader Wout van Aert after the opening three stages. <\/p>\n

But the Belgian finished more than 16 minutes back on Tuesday’s 170km route, allowing Roglic to take the overall lead.<\/p>\n

“It was not the main objective of the day [to win the stage],” Roglic told Eurosport.<\/p>\n

“But when you see the guys fighting hard in this heat I was happy to finish it off.”<\/p>\n

Portugal’s Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) finished third on the stage and is second overall, trailing Roglic by eight seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Three-time champion Primoz Roglic won the first mountain stage of this year’s Vuelta a Espana to claim the race leader’s red jersey. The Slovenian edged past Lennert van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny) on the line to clinch Tuesday’s fourth stage after a gruelling 14km climb to Pico Villuercas in searing heat. Belgium’s Van Eetvelt celebrated what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}