The Spanish cycling federation, the RFEC, has expressed its “utmost respect” with “those who are peacefully demonstrating” at the current Vuelta a España, and has asked all protestors not to hinder the race.
On two occasions at this year's race, stages have been stopped early – general classification times were taken at 3km to go on stage 11 and 8km to go on stage 16 – due to pro-Palestine protests at the scheduled finish lines. Two riders have also crashed after protestors encroached on the road, while Israel-Premier Tech were stopped by protestors during their team time trial on stage five.
