Buitrago: “I tried to follow Ayuso, but I didn’t endure”

Santiago Buitrago repeated escape in stage 12 of the Tour of Spain 2025. He finished eighth to 18 seconds from the winner Juan Ayuso.

During most of the day between the plane and second and first mountain ports, he rolled in the 52 cyclist escape through the north of the country.

He resisted to the top of Collada de Branes, when Ayuso imposed a difficult pedaling to follow.

“It was a very hard day, a shame, in the end I knew it was a very big leak, when it is very difficult to control, luckily we had my partner who was also ahead, I tried to follow the wheel of Ayuso but in the toughest part of the climb I could not endure And in the end try to do a good position, “he said.

It was the best of Colombians. He finished eighth to 18 seconds from the Spanish winner.

“I am thinking about the day to day, today I wanted to try everything, tomorrow will be another day. Now to recover and we will think about tomorrow”he added.