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EFE · Road Competition · 10/24/2020
The Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadier) said at the end of today’s stage with the finish line in Sabinigo that he has a clear objective of going for the final triumph in the Vuelta a Espaa 2020 and that he will go for it.
“We have a clear goal and we are going to go for it,” said the Tulcn, grateful for the team’s work “because they have done a great job” to defend their options against the dangerous escape that Sepp Kuss had gotten into, the main support of the leader Primoz Roglic in the Jumbo-Visma.
As for the one that ended this Saturday in Sabinigo, he said that it was “a super fast stage in which it was run very hard and in the end it was a lot of wear and tear”.
Esteban Chaves: “Formigal is the hardest stage of this weekend”
The Colombian Jhoan Esteban Chaves (Mitchelton-Scott), who has not had any difficulties in the fifth stage of the 75th edition of the Vuelta a Espaa, has stressed that this Sunday comes the hardest stage of this first week of the race with the arrival to the Sarrios Parking in the Aragonese winter station of Formigal.
“Formigal is the hardest stage of this weekend and now it’s time to go to rest, which is important for that stage,” he said.
Chaves stressed that the start of this fifth day in Huesca has been “very aggressive in which we have rolled the first part above 50 kilometers per hour”.
The bad luck that accompanied the Bogota native on arrival at Laguna Negra, which made him lose a few seconds with the best in the general classification, does not prevent him from showing confidence for this Vuelta in his own strength and in his team’s because “we are going to continue fighting day by day “.
Enris Mas: “Tomorrow will be a day of survival”
The Spanish Enric Mas (Movistar), fourth in the general of the Vuelta a Espaa, hopes that the judges will not enter into differences in goal due to the fall near the arrival in the stage this Saturday because he believes that the last was not a ramp to lose time.
“I hope the judges enter there, because it was not a ramp in which to waste time and we all had the strength to arrive together. We were stuck before that fall and afterwards we have come with some cuts,” he explained.
But, in any case, he assured: “I have not seen the fall, honestly.” “I came from the outside in that curve and the fall was from the inside. I have not seen how the action occurred and I could only appreciate that Jos Joaqun (Rojas) fell. They say that a runner has touched him on the inside. but I don’t really know what happened, “he said.
For the rest, the Spaniard said that today has been “a very nervous and demanding stage until the escape has been formed, with an intelligent movement by (Sepp) Kuss”. “If it had gone well and that escape had taken time, it would have been a worrying move for us,” valued the strategic action of the Jumbo-Visma of the leader Primoz Roglic.
“But the truth is that Ineos has entered to shoot fast and if they had not, surely we would have entered quickly,” he added.
Looking forward to tomorrow, he warned that the day ending in Formigal, replacing what was to be one of the reigning stages with the finish at the Tourmalet, “will be another tough day.” “Surely a day of survival because rain and cold are expected and with the final ports it will be an important stage,” he warned.
Jorge Arcas: “It’s a dream come true that I had since I was little”
The Aragons Jorge Arcas (Movistar) has lived his most special day since he was a professional cyclist since the fifth stage of the 75 Vuelta a Espaa has finished “300 meters from my house” and has fulfilled the dream he had since he was little.
“I live next to the goal, 300 meters away. It is a dream come true that I had since I was little, to arrive here with the Vuelta a Espaa”, said the Alto Aragon.
“At the beginning I was a little nervous, but I have been professional for a few years now and I control my nerves better. The truth is that I really enjoyed a stage that was very hard because it took a long time before the break was made” , has explained.
For Arcas, in this stage between Huesca and Sabinigo “the legs of the runners have arrived very tired” something that they may accuse tomorrow between Biescas and Formigal in a stage that he anticipated “will also be very beautiful”.
He also stressed that since the La Vuelta 2020 route with this fifth stage was announced, it was “a goal that I marked in red.”
The Serrabls has taken the opportunity to remember that his first pedaling as a cyclist was given by the streets and roads through which the peloton has circulated today, such as the mini Quebrantahuesos, and then go to the Pea Ciclista Edelweiss, the Huesca La Magia-Club Ciclista Oscense and Lizarte, before gaining a place in the World Tour squad with Movistar, a team in which it is now in its fifth season.
What he does not forget is that his job in telephone training is to work on behalf of his colleagues. “My job is to be gregarious for the great leaders that we have in the team and that they do not lack anything,” he concluded.
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