Stage 16 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana again saw Enric Mas at a very high level on the final climb to Lagos de Covadonga. Although he didn't manage to gain time on Primoz Roglic, the Spaniard entered the finish line ahead of Ben O'Connor.
The Movistar Team leader is showing very good legs, and he's still confident he can make the breakthrough needed to go on to win the overall Vuelta a Espana. Speaking just after the end of the stage, Mas was very excited about the rest of the race, and confident of finishing ahead of Roglic in the classification: "The feeling is great. Primoz is 5 seconds off the lead, so I'm 1:20 off the red jersey," he assesses.
Mas already tried to surprise the group of favourites with an attack 57 km from the finish on the climb to Collada Llomena, but it didn't manage to snap the elastic: "We tried our luck on the previous climb, but things didn't go as we wanted," he admits. "Today I pulled more, others did it on other days. When I saw that they were on the wheel when I made the attack I knew there was no hardness and I had to stop. It's time to continue".
Finally, Enric Mas talks about what is still ahead in the Vuelta a Espana: "Today we enjoyed the Lagos, I ask the gods to improve the weather next time, I did not see anything on the descent, Primoz either, but good. Tomorrow is Santander, and we can not rule out stages because people are going very fast".
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Results: Stage 16 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana
| 1 | Soler Marc | UAE Team Emirates | 180 | 04:44:46 |
| 2 | Zana Filippo | Team Jayco-AlUla | 130 | + 18 |
| 3 | Poole Max | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | 95 | + 23 |
| 4 | Vine Jay | UAE Team Emirates | 80 | + 57 |
| 5 | Izagirre Ion | Cofidis | 60 | + 01:02 |
| 6 | del Toro Isaac | UAE Team Emirates | 45 | + 01:29 |
| 7 | Frigo Marco | Israel-Premier Tech | 40 | + 01:35 |
| 8 | Riccitello Matthew | Israel-Premier Tech | 35 | + 01:47 |
| 9 | Mas Enric | Movistar Team | 30 | + 03:54 |
| 10 | Carapaz Richard | EF Education-EasyPost | 25 | + 03:54 |
| 11 | Roglic Primoz | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 20 | + 03:54 |
| 12 | Skjelmose Mattias | Lidl-Trek | 15 | + 04:01 |
| 13 | Gaudu David | Groupama-FDJ | 10 | + 04:01 |
| 14 | Tusveld Martijn | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | 5 | + 04:01 |
| 15 | Rodriguez Carlos | INEOS Grenadiers | 2 | + 04:05 |
| 16 | Landa Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | + 04:05 | |
| 17 | Kuss Sepp | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 04:09 | |
| 18 | Yates Adam | UAE Team Emirates | + 04:38 | |
| 19 | Lipowitz Florian | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 04:46 | |
| 20 | O'Connor Ben | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 04:52 |
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