{"id":769011,"date":"2026-09-13T04:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769011\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T04:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:48:15","slug":"santiago-buitrago-i-was-completely-drained-by-the-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769011\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Buitrago: &#8220;I was completely drained by the finish&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was a gruelling day. Right from the start of the stage, I had no idea how the race was going \u2013 everything was in tatters. Today, I was completely drained by the finish. We also had Jakob [Omrzel], who\u2019d stayed with Onley, and they made me stop. A very crazy race, a very tough stage\u2026 I couldn\u2019t wait to reach the finish line. Without a doubt, Wout [van Aert] was a threat. If anyone could take the jersey off me, it was him. That\u2019s why I always said that the points were never enough. Today, it actually scared me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/img.aso.fr\/core_app\/img-cycling-vue-jpg\/20260911lv19-a-s-o-cxcling-toni-baixauli-bx9-1149\/30307\/0:0,999:666-1000-0-70\/ef16d\" class=\"js-jzoom\" role=\"button\" data-modal-type=\"image\" data-modal-class=\"modal__box--gutter is-modal-white\" data-modal-width=\"1000\" data-modal-height=\"auto\" data-xtclick=\"article::image::zoom\" data-clicktype=\"A\"><br \/>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure__image img--responsive lazyItem js-lazy\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 999 666&quot;%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"999\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/24636.jpeg|https:\/\/img.aso.fr\/core_app\/img-cycling-vue-jpg\/20260911lv19-a-s-o-cxcling-toni-baixauli-bx9-1149\/30307\/0:0,999:666-1998-0-70\/627e5\" alt=\"11\/09\/2026 - La Vuelta 2026 - Stage 19 - Velez - Malaga &gt; Pe\u00f1as Blancas. Estepona (210 Km) - Santiago BUITRAGO (BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><br \/>\n                                11\/09\/2026 &#8211; La Vuelta 2026 &#8211; Stage 19 &#8211; Velez &#8211; Malaga &gt; Pe\u00f1as Blancas. Estepona (210 Km) &#8211; Santiago BUITRAGO (BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS) \u00a9 Cxcling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was a gruelling day. Right from the start of the stage, I had no idea how the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}