The Spanish Juan Ayuso has won two so far from the return to Spain 2025: the seventh and the twelfth.
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The return to Spain 2025 lived on Thursday a half -mountain day in the autonomous region of Cantabria, north of the country, which ended with a new victory for local cycling. The Spanish Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) won his compatriot Javier Romo in the final meters.
The day started in Laredo and concluded in the pens of Buelna. After a journey of 144.9 kilometers with 2,393 meters of positive unevenness, Ayuso showed that in this edition of the Spanish round his role is stages hunter and achieved his second individual victory.
In the absence of ten kilometers for the goal, two Spaniards, Ayuso and Javier Romo (Movistar), took the lead and managed to open a difference of one minute over the persecutor. Behind, the Frenchman Brieuc Rolland (Groupama-FDJ) was the one who tried to approach the most, but could only ensure the third position of the day.
The outcome was defined in the final meters. Ayuso knew how to read the race and wait for the right time to launch his attack. In the last curve, with the goal in sight, he advanced Romo, who could not react with sufficient cadence and hit his handling as a sign of frustration.
Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain-Victorus) was the best Colombian of stage 12. The Bogota concluded in the eighth position, 18 seconds from the winner. The Cunidnamarqupes Egan Bernal remains the best of the sneakers in the general classification.
The favorite squad, headed by Danish Jonas Vingegaard, leader of the classification, crossed the goal with more than six minutes of delay with respect to the escapes. The big climbers preferred to reserve energies for the demanding day that is coming.
This Friday the race will face one of its toughest stages in the high mountain, with a route of 202.7 kilometers between the head of the salt and the Angliru, accumulating 3,964 meters of unevenness. There will be three ports: two first and one special.
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