Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates): “In the end, [the Super Combative award means] that I fought to get those stage wins and that I was in the breakaway a lot. It's a reward for all that work. It has been a very hard Vuelta, but yes, in the end it was good for me that it was more demanding and with more gradient to be able to be in breakaways and fight for stages and get the stage victory in Lagos, which is very important. I'm very happy, and now I'm going to enjoy it. [Without Joao Almeida's withdrawal] it would have changed a bit, but well, in the end we overcame it very well, we were able to win several stage victories, the team general classification, the mountains jersey... so we are very happy. Being the best team, just like in the UCI ranking where we are now also number 1, is very important. The truth is that we are very happy. Everything is important, in the end we work to get good results, and when at some point we can't get that good result in the overall, we look for other things.”
