{"id":2116464,"date":"2026-08-27T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116464"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:14:30","slug":"video-tadej-pogacar-narrowly-avoids-disaster-on-treacherous-descent-at-vuelta-a-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2116464","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tadej Poga\u010dar Narrowly Avoids Disaster on Treacherous Descent at Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2291996807.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Updated August 27, 2026 10:01AM<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-base-loose\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tts-player relative w-full\">\n<div id=\"beyondwords-player\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tadej Poga\u010dar had to bring all his descending skills to the final of stage 6 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aspect-video\">\n<p>The Slovenian only narrowly kept it upright after he lost control while railing a narrow downhill in the bid to blow Enric Mas off his wheel, 19km from the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Poga\u010dar seemed to overcook a sweeping right-hander and rumbled onto the grassy verge. He was able to come to a halt after just a few meters before he unclipped and pushed his way back onto the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>This was a very near miss from Poga\u010dar. Maybe the GOAT does get things wrong, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Poga\u010dar soon jumped back onto Mas\u2019 wheel in anticipation of the 2-up finale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">No se cae ni sali\u00e9ndose.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd2f El recto de Pogacar en el descenso del Bartolo.#LaVuelta26 #LaCasadelCiclismo pic.twitter.com\/SmKg1GiqRg<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) August 27, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- --><span hidden aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\"><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Updated August 27, 2026 10:01AM<\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-base-loose\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/news\/video-pogacar-narrowly-avoids-disaster-in-descending-miscue\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2291996807.jpg&#8221;] Jim Cotton Updated August 27, 2026 10:01AM Tadej Poga\u010dar had to bring all his descending skills to the final of stage 6 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a on Thursday. The Slovenian only narrowly kept it upright after he lost control while railing a narrow downhill in the bid to blow Enric Mas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2116464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}