The Spanish Enrique More he was pleased that he hadn’t lost much time on the cobblestone stage and noted that now “the Tour is starting”.
“I am very happy, the balance is very good, honestly. We have removed all the falls, and at least in my case, I do not know how my teammates are, but I am very happy”, he assured at the end of fifth period, after who is 1.02 behind Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, a great favorite for the final victory, and 1.21 behind the leader, Belgian Wout van Aert.
“In the middle of the stage, in the first cobbled sections, we had a problem with the riders being cut off from the first part of the peloton in front of me. Thanks to the team we passed the other sections well,” he added. the cyclist from Movistar.
He explained that between his team and Jumbo, who also saw how their two leaders, Slovenian Primoz Roglic and Danish Jonas Vingegaard, remained, they closed the open gap on other favorites, except Pogacar, that they passed in 13 seconds.
“Thirteen seconds are few with which they could have been”, said Mas, referring to Roglic’s downfall, who left more than 2 minutes and said goodbye to many of his chances of winning the Tour.
“He had a nasty fall, I saw him on the ground and hopefully he was fine and he didn’t have anything,” he said.
The Spaniard pointed out that the day was “complicated, with a lot of tension”, but that “thanks to this team it was saved”.
“Now the Tour begins,” said the Spanish cyclist, who was waiting for the mountain stages to arrive.
Source: La Verdad
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