“It’s no fun working ourselves to the bone for them here. But we do it. The show must go on, but I wouldn’t be surprised if several people end up in the hospital tonight by ambulance with heatstroke,” he sighed.<\/p>\n
Kruijswijk replaces Mas as the peloton’s representativeUAE team director Joxean \u201cMatxin\u201d Fernandez also had reservations about the change, which was decided in consultation between the Vuelta organizers and the CPA<\/a> representatives from the peloton.Those representatives were Hugo Houle (Alpecin-Premier Tech), Jacopo Mosca (Lidl-Trek), and Enric Mas<\/a> (Movistar), but Houle has since withdrawn from the race, and Mas\u2014as the red jersey wearer\u2014is said to have stepped back from the CPA due to potential conflicts of interest.AS reports <\/a>that Steven Kruijswijk<\/a> (Visma | Lease a Bike) has taken Mas\u2019s place and that Michael Gogl has replaced his teammate Houle as the CPA representative.<\/p>\n Over the next few days, they will also participate in meetings regarding possible adjustments to the final week, which will be held through Granada in southern Spain. Tuesday and Wednesday, in particular, are expected to be hot.<\/p>\n Read more below the photo. <\/p>\n Enric Mas is no longer a CPA representative in the Vuelta.<\/p>\n UAE team boss calls for more consideration of rider safety<\/p>\n Matxin suggests that perhaps a little more consideration could be given to the riders\u2019 well-being, especially when it comes to the stage times. \u201cWe lost Pavel Sivakov to heatstroke, which is a truly dangerous situation. Shortening the stage is a good decision, but\u2026 why not come up with a different schedule?\u201d<\/p>\n “I know it could hurt television revenue, but it’s an alternative on a day when temperatures sometimes reached 46\u00b0C. Starting at 3:00 p.m., when it’s hottest, doesn’t really help with the heat protocol, in my opinion,” said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heat has been the main topic of conversation at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a for days now. Sunday’s stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1193770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4104],"tags":[179200,4230,77929,79,250132,16,15,315085],"class_list":["post-1193769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cpa","tag-cycling","tag-enric-mas","tag-sports","tag-steven-kruijswijk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vuelta-a-espana-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117237167442414714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"enric-mas\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/enric-mas-6a9e66f430694.jpg@webp.webp\")
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