{"id":56462,"date":"2025-08-09T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:59:07","slug":"i-didnt-expect-to-win-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56462\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t expect to win here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/damiano-caruso\" title=\"Damiano Caruso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Damiano Caruso<\/a> broke his three-year long fasting during the fourth stage of 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/vuelta-a-burgos\" title=\"Vuelta a Burgos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelta a Burgos<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/bahrain-victorious\" title=\"Bahrain - Victorious\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bahrain &#8211; Victorious<\/a> rider joined today&#8217;s breakaway which featured renown riders such as Rui Costa (EF Education-EasyPost) and Javier Romo (Movistar Team), but was able to shake off everyone on the hilly final stretch of the stage to ride towards an unexpected triumph.<\/p>\n<p>After crossing the finish line, Caruso expressed his joy, noting, &#8220;It&#8217;s a great satisfaction. I&#8217;m already 37 years old, and it&#8217;s not easy to establish yourself at this high level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Italian didn&#8217;t think he would put a cherry on top of his season after his 5th overall at the Giro d&#8217;Italia. &#8220;It was an unexpected victory, as I didn&#8217;t expect to get here, but I arrived full of energy and am happy to have been able to do this job,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Caruso highlighted the preparation that brought him to this point after &#8220;a long period at altitude, almost a month in Pordoi, at an average temperature of around fifteen degrees, and all that work has paid off.&#8221; He also praised the Burgos terrain, which offers &#8220;superlative, very demanding climbs, and the high temperatures can greatly influence the physical effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damiano Caruso broke his three-year long fasting during the fourth stage of 2025 Vuelta a Burgos. The Bahrain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-56462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}