Farewell in a big way for a runner who needed to enrich his record and relive the most pleasant sensations. Enric Mas closes the season with a victory in the general classification of the Guangxi Tour, a second level test, but framed in the World Tour calendar, where the most powerful teams participate.
In China, the Balearic climber was once again reunited with the victory in a season that threatened to end in white. A smile as a climax for his career in the Deceuninck-Quick Step. "It's great to say goodbye to this fantastic team," said the Spaniard, who climbed back on the podium, as he did last year in two stages of the Tour of Spain and the Basque Country.
The triumph in the general and the queen stage of the Guangxi Tour seals a dull course of the runner born 24 years ago in Arta, a year in which he has barely exercised the role of team leader. The Deceuninck-Quick Step is a group designed to stand out in the classics and with little interest in the general classifications. In that dynamic, the Balearic played a secondary role. Even in the Tour de France, where performance decreased in the last part due to an intestinal indisposition, he served as gregarious Julian Alaphilippe . The Belgian is not a formation in which she has found herself at ease. More clothed will feel from next season at Movistar. In the group of Eusebio Unzué , with the absences of Nairo Quinta and Mikel Landa will carry gallons of boss, along with Alejandro Valverde and Marc Soler . The Tour de France will be your great goal.
The season of Enric Mas has been discreet, but it is best that imbalances have barely appeared. The graph of its performance shows a uniform line, with a good handful of presences in the 'top ten' in the stage and one-day tests. Thus, in addition to the first place in the Chinese race, he reached a fourth place in the Tour of the Algarve (first round of the season), the ninth in the Volta a Catalunya and in the Tour de Switzerland. In the classics he was eighth in San Sebastián and tenth in Milan-Turin.
Further from the record of the first 10 he finished in the Basque Country, 11th; in the Tour de Germany, 35º; in the Tour de France, 22º; in Il Lombardía, 13, at the Montreal Grand Prix, 16th; in the Quebec Grand Prix, 17th; in Flecha-Walloon, 30º; and in Liege-Bastogne-Liege: 59º.
With his exhibition in Guanxi, Enric Mas becomes the first Spaniard to win the Chinese round. In addition, his victory guarantees five places of the Spanish team in the road test of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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