Enric More (Movistar) already explained in this fifth stage in between Morella and Burriana He planned to get into the fight for the bonus null sprint, where the leader Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) he got 6 seconds, but was “caught by the bull”.
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“I wanted to enter the intermediate sprint like Remco did but the bull caught me. I saw the two kilometer banner and the next one I saw I thought it was the one but it was the sprint,” he said.
Mas was delighted that he was “lucky to escape the falls and we survived another day”, although he certainly regretted losing the stage before the start of the stage due to a broken clavicle in the Portuguese. Ruben Guerreiro because it was “a very important casualty. He was the man for the mountain. Shameful.”
The Spaniard also admitted that they had to take risks on this stage because of the “dangerous” route, the roads are shiny and broken and we are next to the beach. Many times we don’t realize how fast we enter the curves. and normally there is risk,” he said.
About finishing Turolense Vulture Peak this Thursday he commented that, despite the fact that he did not participate in the Vuelta in 2019, it was “different things” at the end of Andorran Arinsal, even “I look forward to it and I keep thinking about it every day”.
enric mas He still does not see himself in a position to set a clear goal for which to fight in the Vuelta, although in Arinsal he is seen to have the best because “he is confident, but the second and third week is very difficult” and of Andorra This is not a stage to “see who is better and who is worse and not climb at a very high rate”.
However, he confirmed that “it’s always a joy to see myself in the best after the crash I’ve had in the Tour and at home” to which he added “I hope to continue and feel better”.
Mas admitted that leaving the Tour on the first day could be a strong psychological blow but “I took it well and I told myself that I set the Tour as my goal or I will have a gig. “
With rivals it is clear Jumbo-Visma He came to the Vuelta with “some marked stages, as he did in the Tour” and in his opinion they could finish in Angliru or the two in the Pyrenees in the second week, in addition to the Pyrenean chain. of The Pierre de Sant Martin and Larrau “It seems very difficult for me, because the Asturian ports and the Pyrenees ports are very different”.
Source: La Verdad
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