“It is what it is, you can’t ask for more. The whole stage is very fast. It’s true that we would have liked to put a little more time into it. O’Connorbut it was not possible. We also missed the stage and I’m not happy at all,” said the Balearic Enric Mas after the 20th and penultimate stage of La Vuelta in Picón Blanco.
He regretted theHead of Movistar that “we didn’t understand each other. I believed Richard (Carapaz) I was going to collaborate a little more and I didn’t want to bother because Richard is not that far away (Mas is 3rd and Carapaz 4th) and nothing. “We have to accept reality and let’s hope that tomorrow we will do a super time trial.”
Enric expects to be “optimistic” for the final test in tomorrow’s time and “thinks it will be good”; and when asked about the podium place he seemed resigned: “The podium is real, it’s something nice, we hope to get out of nine seconds (referring to O’Connor which is 2nd) and climbed another position on the podium, but we came to win.
Enric Mas has competed with it in seven editions of The Return and so far their best results are second place in 2018, 201 and 2022. Tomorrow starts the final time trial towards Madrid 3rd, eight seconds behind the Australian Ben O’Connor2nd.
Source: La Verdad
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