MADRID, 20 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish cyclist Enric Mas (Movistar Team) assured that he is not feeling “super” in this final week of the Tour de France and apologized for “not being able to give the Spanish fans more” than he is doing, after a seventeenth stage in which he also suffered and in which he went “at the top”.
“I’m sorry I can’t be giving the Spanish fans more than what I’m able to offer these days. I can’t say that the sensations are super, but I am finding a better feeling in recent days,” Mas said at the end of the day in statements provided by his team.
For the Spaniard, twelfth at 3:44 behind the winner, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE), “the main conclusion” of this first great day in the Pyrenees is that they must “learn, every day, from this situation for the future” . “It has been a full day from start to finish,” he warned.
“During the descent from Val Louron I cut myself off from the group I came with, once everything had broken down, but thanks to Gregor (Mühlberger) I was able to enter, cover the climb to Peyragudes with them and finish a few seconds behind those who was in front of me,” he said.
Despite the fact that the Spaniard remains in the ‘top 10’ of the general classification, he made it clear that this is “secondary” because they reached the ‘Grande Boucle’ “for the top 3”. “Hopefully the famous ‘miracles of Lourdes’ exist tomorrow, but the main thing is to keep recovering sensations and fight to give our best,” he said in relation to the starting point of the eighteenth stage that ends at the top of Hautacam.