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Movistar Team leader tried to count on the collaboration of a Richard Carapaz who was not up to much and did not help him: "We didn't understand each other, I thought Richard was going to collaborate a little more, but I couldn't get too excited because Richard is not that far away and, nothing, we just have to accept the reality and hope that tomorrow we will do a super time trial".
He hopes to take second place in a special time trial, however, Mas also made clear that he had come to win: "We have to be optimistic, we have to go to sleep thinking about that, that the time trial is going to be super, we go out and we arrive home, so with the strength of everyone and that of the presi we are sure it will go well. The podium is something nice, let's hope we can take 9 seconds off and climb another position, but we came to win and I'm not happy. I don't know how much Roglic is ahead of me now and it's two minutes, which is very difficult".