Enric Mas: “Finishing on the podium of La Vuelta is very nice for me and the team”
MADRID, 12 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Alejandro Valverde affirmed this Sunday that La Vuelta 2022, his last Spanish round, was “very emotional” for him, with an emotional tribute through the streets of Madrid, which he hopes “people have experienced as beautifully” as the.
“It has been a very emotional Vuelta for me. It is not a day like getting a win, which is one more emotion at once, an explosion, but an emotion that little by little I have been taking day by day and that I have enjoyed a lot The walk through Madrid has been incredible. I hope that people have lived it as beautifully as I have”, said the ‘Bala’ after the last stage of La Vuelta in statements shared by his team.
The 42-year-old runner thanked “all the love” he has received from the public in the three weeks that the race lasted. “I’m sure I’ll come back, even if it’s not as a rider anymore. I’m going to really enjoy everything I’ve received and achieved, and I’m going to support the team to the fullest,” said the Murcian.
Finally, Valverde announced that he will be in Italy during the month of October, since his idea is “to finish in Il Lombardia”. “We have the last races of the year and of my career,” he concluded.
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For his part, Enric Mas (Movistar Team), second overall in La Vuelta, wanted to thank the support received “in a difficult time” that he experienced “in recent months”. “Coming from where we came from 45 days ago, being on the podium of La Vuelta is something very nice for me and for the entire Movistar Team. We have gone day by day, calmly, facing challenges at every step,” he said.
“The only day on which I had placed special emphasis prior to the race was the stage of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in which unfortunately the forces did not accompany. But cycling is like that; it gives some lime and others sand” , analyzed his performance in the Spanish round.
However, the 27-year-old runner stressed that things went “more or less well”, so he can only be “thankful for that”. “Tirreno, País Vasco, Dauphiné, Tour… All of them had brought crashes or hard blows to the mood, and ending the season of rounds in stages like this is exciting and gives hope for the future,” he concluded.