{"id":7166,"date":"2025-07-19T04:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7166\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T04:06:03","slug":"enric-mas-shifts-focus-to-stage-wins-at-the-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7166\/","title":{"rendered":"Enric Mas shifts focus to stage wins at the Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/68793298dadd5.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/68793298dadd5.jpeg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Enric Mas\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enric Mas faced a harsh reality check after stage 13 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/2025-tour-de-france-live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2025 Tour de France<\/a>, an uphill individual time trial to Peyragudes. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finishing 16th, 2 minutes and 58 seconds behind stage winner Tadej Pogacar, Mas admitted his general classification hopes were effectively over, turning his attention instead to chasing a stage victory in the remaining days of the race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 30-year-old rider, who had already lost 16 minutes on the brutal stage 12 at Hautacam, was candid about his struggles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere was no strength. There\u2019s no other explanation\u201d, said Mas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disappointment was palpable as he reflected on his performance, acknowledging that the grueling demands of the Tour had taken their toll. With his GC ambitions dashed, Mas announced a new objective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m going to go all out for a stage win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This shift in strategy also frees up his Movistar teammates, who will now have the opportunity to pursue their own goals rather than solely supporting Mas\u2019 faltering GC campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy teammates can now have more freedom to go for their own chances,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enric Mas faced a harsh reality check after stage 13 of the 2025 Tour de France, an uphill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}