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'A re-run of the Bilbao stage'- UAE Team Emirates-XRG management respects Vuelta a España organisers’ decision to conclude the stage early

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are suppressed by the police during the La Vuelta - 80th Tour of Spain 2025, Stage 16 a 167.9km stage from Poio to Mos. Castro de Herville / The stage ends 8km before the actual finish line due to protests / on September 09, 2025 in Castro de Erville, Spain. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images).

UAE Team Emirates-XRG head sports director Joxéan Fernández Matxin has explained that the decision to suspend the last part of stage 16 of the Vuelta a España due to the latest wave of pro-Palestine protests was only made a few kilometres before the relocation of the finish.

For the second time in less than a week after the protests on stage 11 in Bilbao, a Vuelta stage was once again party suspended, with the line relocated eight kilometres from the finish, at the foot of the final climb.

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