Quotes
Stage 18
174| Enric MAS NICOLAU
Mas: “My next goal is to change the colour of this jersey”
Enric Mas (Movistar Team): “I feel good, specially after after such a strange year. La Vuelta finished in Madrid. The team did a great work and we’re very happy. If I’m honest, I wanted a better classification in the overall, but that’s the way it is. My next goal is to change the colour of this jersey and I hope we’ll go for it next year.”
Stage 18
151| Guillaume MARTIN
Martin: “It’s an important step in my career”
Guillaume Martin (Cofidis): “It was my first Vuelta. This whole season was very particular. It’s an important step in my career. It’s the first time I climbed on the podium of a Grand Tour and I hope to do it again.”
Stage 18
1| Primož ROGLIC
Roglic: “It’s beautiful to finish the season like this”
Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma): “We were just enjoying. It was the last one to do and we did it. It’s beautiful to finish the season like this. I always say every victory is beautiful. It’s really hard to win. So it’s difficult to compare [with 2019]. I’m just super happy that I could win and to finish the season like this. I don’t know [if I’m the best Grand Tour rider]. For sure I was the best in this Vuelta. There are still races I didn’t win yet, more challenges, but first of all today we celebrate.It was a special year. I...
Stage 18
61| Pascal ACKERMANN
Ackermann: “I’m just so happy I can say thank you to my teammates”
Pascal Ackermann (Bora-Hansgrohe): “I wasn’t sure, I was asking Sam [Bennett] who won. I was really unsure and we had to wait after the finish and we got the message in the radio. We’re so happy about the victory today. I really have to say thank you to my teammates. Today was an amazing lead-out. I’m really happy to finish the season with a victory. It’s also my 13th victory of the season and I’m just so happy I can say thank you to my teammates. I still think I only won one stage, I’m not really counting the one where Sam was relegated....
Stage 17
174| Enric MAS NICOLAU
Mas: “I’m really happy”
Enric Mas (Movistar Team): “I’m happy, really happy, after a strange season and a very strange year. After Burgos and Dauphiné, I felt better in the Tour and La Vuelta but I couldn’t get to the podium. In the end I’m 5th overall, I take the best young rider’s jersey and we win the team classification. So I think we’re happy.”
Stage 17
72| Richard CARAPAZ
Carapaz: “I’m very moved”
Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers): “I’m very happy with how La Vuelta has been going, we were up there in the fight and above all I’m very moved. It’s a great podium. [About Movistar pulling], everyone is looking for their own interest, I don’t have any comment. I knew the climb, I had done it in 2018 when we came with Nairo [Quintana] and I knew exactly how it was, also with the wind. I’m very happy with this huge effort and that’s it, we fought as much as we could. It’s been a spectacular season, it’s that simple.”
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Stage 17
151| Guillaume MARTIN
Martin: “I'm happy that a Frenchman won the stage”
Guillaume Martin (Cofidis): “I couldn't spend the last stage of La Vuelta without attacking after what I did before. Today was my seventh breakaway of the race. Unfortunately I may have attacked too much. I was too tired to play for the stage victory today. Anyway I'm happy with my Vuelta with the king of the mountains jersey. The race has been attractive with all those attacks. I knew at the bottom of the last climb that one breakaway rider would win the stage. At that moment I was still hoping that it could be myself. I tried to follow David Gaudu but I put myself...
Stage 17
1| Primož ROGLIC
Roglic: “It’s always good to have an exciting finish”
Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma): “It’s always good to have an exciting finish and that was exciting! I had just enough to know that I went with my own tempo it would be enough. In the end, it’s all good. I wasn’t really always under control but you need to stay calm and do your thing. [Lennard Hofstede] really helped me. Again, it was a really nice job from the whole team, riding full gas from the start. I’m super happy [to win La Vuelta]. It’s a really nice way to finish the season.”
Stage 17
94| David GAUDU
Gaudu: “La Vuelta was already a success and this is even better”
David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) : “Bruno [Armirail] has been amazing again. There are no words for the work he puts in. Right now, he’s one of the best teammates in the world with what he does. In the end, I had to go all in. I was afraid they might come back and then I was able to accelerate again in the last kilometre. I wanted to ove past my rivals quickly to make sure they couldn’t shelter. It’s awesome. I was thinking about it this morning. Tim Wellens has won two stages, Ben King did it also two yeas ago. Thibaut [Pinot] won two stages last time he...
Stage 16
151| Guillaume MARTIN
Martin: “A tradition within the Cofidis team”
Martin: “I went for many breakaways and I’ll keep going. It’s a pleasure [to win the KOM standings]. It’s a tradition within the Cofidis team, with David Moncoutié and my teammate Nicolas Edet. I’m very proud to have this jersey.”
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