Santiago Buitrago got his revenge on Lavaronethe Bogota cyclist turned the tears of impotence last Sunday into tears of joy and euphoria this Tuesday, after crowning the escape and staying with the victory in stage 17 of the Italy tour.
Buitrago integrated the escape from the beginning of the day, in a demanding stage made up of three first category mountain passes.
The cyclist from Bahrain Victorius sand went to the floor with 80 kilometers to goletting go of the escape group and recovering with height, reconnecting with the group moments later.
The Dutch Matheu Van Der Poel y Gijs Leem trip were the great obstacle, with whom they linked at the end of the ascent to the Vetriolo Pass, but who again took an important distance in this descent.
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The 22-year-old Bogotano decided thena little less than 12 kilometers launched a brave attack to start cutting more than 1’30” difference with the two men at the front of the racemissing 10, he surpassed Van Der Poel, 8.5 to Leemreize and there he began his solo march.
At the finish line he had time to look around, raise his arms and celebrate excitedly, with a difference of 35″ over Gijs Leem trip and 2’28” over the Czech Jan Hirt.
The Bogota cyclist is now in 14th place overall, 20’15” behind first place.
The fight for the pink jersey kept the fight on edge between the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz and the Australian Jai Hindley, with only 3″ of difference between the two. The Spanish Mikel Landa climbed to third position at 1’05” and Joao Almeida fell to fourth place at 1’54”.