Cycling was licking its wounds on Monday and wondering "where next?" after a chaotic final day of the Vuelta a Espana that saw the concluding stage called off 50 kilometers shy of the capital and the winner crowned in a hotel parking lot.
The three-week stage race, one of the three Grand Tours at the pinnacle of the sport, was repeatedly disrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators fired up by the presence in the race of the Israel Premier Tech team.
A government spokesman said that 100,000 people had taken part in the final-stage protests, which followed other pro-Palestinian protests during the race.
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