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  "description": "Enric Mas came into the Giro d'Italia targetting the GC podium, but after a lengthy period of recovery from injury in mid-2025, the Spanish climber has struggled at his Giro debut, ending week two more than 30 minutes down on Jonas Vingegaard.\n\n\"The real tests are in the races and there, unfortunately, the mark he's got is a fail,\" Movistar team boss Eusebio Unzué told Spanish newspaper AS. \"We knew that this incognito existed after such a long time without racing, although we also had reasons t",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-24T11:48:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Enric Mas came into the Giro d'Italia targetting the GC podium, but after a lengthy period of recovery from injury in mid-2025, the Spanish climber has struggled at his Giro debut, ending week two more than 30 minutes down on Jonas Vingegaard.\n\n\"The real tests are in the races and there, unfortunately, the mark he's got is a fail,\" Movistar team boss Eusebio Unzué told Spanish newspaper _AS_. \"We knew that this incognito existed after such a long time without racing, although we also had reasons to believe that he could be up there with the best.\"\n\nBefore starting his 2026 season in Mallorca, Mas hadn't raced since abandoning the 2025 Tour de France, later receiving a diagnosis of Thrombophlebitis in his left leg for which he underwent surgery in October. In the buildup to the Giro, he only clocked 10 race days, his best result being 13th on the Volta a Catalunya's queen stage. In Italy, he's been among the first GC riders dropped on the summit finishes, and his first only day so far came through the breakaway on stage 11 when he'd already dropped to 29th overall.\n\n\"I won't talk about disappointment, but we'd have liked to have seen him in better shape,\" Unzué went on. \"It's clear that the GC battle is over for him. But there is still a long way to go in the Giro and I think we'll see him in some mountain stages at the level we expected.\"",
  "title": "'Fail' – Movistar boss offers damning assessment of Mas's Giro so far",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-24T19:03:10.313Z"
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