"We are here to win, so we will definitely try again" - Santiago Buitrago and Bahrain-Victorious not giving up hope of Tour of the Alps success

Once again Bahrain - Victorious proved to biggest challenge to INEOS Grenadiers and Tao Geoghegan Hart's dominance at the Tour of the Alps and Santiago Buitrago is refusing to give up hope of taking the overall win.

"I'm really happy with the result achieved today," Buitrago stated in a post-race interview following stage two of the Tour of the Alps where the Colombian finished in third behind the eventual winner Geoghegan Hart and Buitrago's teammate Jack Haig in second. "We're second and third on the stage, and I took this blue jersey for best climber. I'm satisfied with today."

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Haig and Buitrago currently sit sixth and seventh respectively in the general classification, twenty-eight and thirty seconds down on Geoghegan Hart.

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