“Did you try to help me? With the envy and selfishness that surely characterize him ”, Miguel Ángel ‘Supermán’ López’s harsh comment to Enric Mas | Other Sports | sports

Miguel Ángel ‘Supermán’ López described the Spanish Enric Mas as “selfish” during the crisis experienced by Movistar during the penultimate stage of the Tour of Spain in which the Colombian left and days later led to his early departure from the telephone training.

López questioned the sincerity of his former partner, who told him that they had tried to help him to prevent him from leaving the Vuelta, as it finally happened that day, according to what he said on the program Sucking wheel, of the Chanel RCN.

“Did you try to help me? With the envy and selfishness that surely characterize him, “said the Colombian wryly, who after his controversial departure from Movistar has returned to the ranks of Astana

He also revealed that in that fraction Mas reproached him for “pulling” the group when he had already gone to the front.

“I saw it and I told him to his face: I don’t want to share another career with you because you’re selfish,” he said.

López, who was third overall at the start of that penultimate stage, saw Australian Jack Haig and Swiss Gino Mader, who also entered the breakaway for the best, overtake him in the standings and left him without a podium position. .

Frustrated by the loss of time and the impossibility of catching up with the rivals who threatened his privileged position, the Fisherman in Fisheries could not convince him to resume the race, neither his director Patxi Vila, nor the veteran Imanol Erviti, who spoke with him to to do it.

Hours later, his team manager, Eusebio Unzue, spoke of the events as an experience never experienced before and hinted that what happened could lead to a rethinking of López’s continuity in the team.

Two days before the runner had been proclaimed winner of the queen stage of the Spanish round by being the first to cross the top of Gamoniteiru.

It was Movistar’s first victory in the last edition of the Vuelta and the first for the Colombian cyclist four years after the one he won in Calar Alto in 2017.

“The atmosphere at Movistar was always very tense. Enric, whenever I was ahead, I was looking for a way to be before me, the roles were not clear ”, added López.

Three months after the controversial incident, López gives new nuances to describe what happened that September 4. “I am not retiring”, and then he concludes: “I am retired.” (D)