"I came in empty, I couldn't sprint" - Enric Mas waves goodbye to Red Jersey hopes on stage 19 of 2024 Vuelta a Espana
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Primoz Roglic has seemingly all but officially confirmed the 2024 Vuelta a Espana after winning on stage 19's summit finish, gapping all his general classification rivals in the process.
Movistar Team's Enric Mas arrived at the finish completely empty. He attacked, was brave and for a while had threatened to chase down Roglic. In the end though, the Spaniard completely tied up, being overtaken by both David Gaudu and Mattias Skjelmose before the finish line.
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"We knew that Primoz was going to act like this, he does very well in these kinds of stages, he won and took time, congratulations to him," Mas assesses post-stage. "We did a very good job, we took time from Richard Carapaz and Ben O'Connor, we are happy. I came in empty, I couldn't sprint. We will try tomorrow, we will have to act differently than we did today, there are 5000 meters of elevation gain, it will be different".
Tomorrow we come to a beastly stage, the queen stage of the Vuelta, with just 20 km of flat and a large number of passes including the brutal finish at Picón Blanco. With 6 climbs: two third, a second, a first, a second, a first, the flat kilometres and the very hard finish at Picón Blanco, it's not completely game over for Mas, but the Spaniard will need to put in a performance for the ages.
Results | Stage 19 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana:
| 1 | Roglic Primoz | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 180 | 03:54:55 |
| 2 | Gaudu David | Groupama-FDJ | 130 | + 46 |
| 3 | Skjelmose Mattias | Lidl-Trek | 95 | + 46 |
| 4 | Mas Enric | Movistar Team | 80 | + 50 |
| 5 | Landa Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | 60 | + 57 |
| 6 | Rodriguez Carlos | INEOS Grenadiers | 45 | + 57 |
| 7 | Dunbar Edward | Team Jayco-AlUla | 40 | + 01:01 |
| 8 | Kuss Sepp | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 35 | + 01:01 |
| 9 | Carapaz Richard | EF Education-EasyPost | 30 | + 01:03 |
| 10 | Lipowitz Florian | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 25 | + 01:23 |
| 11 | Riccitello Matthew | Israel-Premier Tech | 20 | + 01:30 |
| 12 | O'Connor Ben | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 15 | + 01:49 |
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- I hope he rides a bitmij15-11-2026
- Greatest athlete this world has ever produced ! LOL ... you definitely are a comdian ! Cycling is so sprecialized and you think he's the greatest athlete ever ! Still laughing !frieders315-11-2026
- b.s. headline. Jonas wasn't told anything, it is just a pundit telling him what to do. the actual article is not even close to the insinuation of the headline.mij15-11-2026
- I think Roglic could have beaten Sepp. not Jonas. I was referring to Sepp.mij15-11-2026
- I'm deeply sick of this guy and his unwillingness to race seriously for more than a month or two. I'll never respect riders who do that. Seixas will be stronger than him next season, and maybe Del Toro as well. I don't even think he'll finish on the podium at any GT where Pogi, Seixas, and Del Toro are racing.megasmacky15-11-2026
- Not a chance in hell.megasmacky15-11-2026
- If you go watch some races from last season other riders that have never caught Jonas...are now catching him. Some are just riding away from him and he can't hold the wheelmd197514-11-2026
- He just doesn't have the desire anymore. I read an article earlier today that said he almost retired last year. His reasoning was he is away from home to much. Visma was able to keep him riding by allowing him to skip certain camps. So, while currently Visma is doing altitude work...Jonas is at home. Which means 2 things. 1- He maybe fresher than other riders. But, not the condition. 2-Is a somewhat slap in the face to others on the team that are supposed to help him win. Yet feel like he hasn't done what they have so perhaps they don't provide as good of protection or they ride more for theme (which the team may not notice).md197514-11-2026
- Roglic could not have won anyway, after Jonas followed him when Roglic decided it was his turn for a stage win. Jonas had already attacked Kuss twice, so it was Jonas who was within seconds of taking the lead before Kuss was 'gifted' the win. It felt a bit like Roglic was being thrown under the bus when the team made his unhappiness public.Hills3314-11-2026
- POG1, another nice doc about our favourite, I watched most of it with a big smile on my face (except for the bits about his crashes 😢 obvs!).Lozza14-11-2026
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