While we're still waiting for the updated GC to be drawn up, more than two hours after the "end" of the eleventh stage, we report some statements given to the Spanish sports newspaper Marca by Kiko Garcia, La Vuelta's technical director: "It was a tough day for everyone, as you can imagine. We knew there could be protests, but the movement at the finish line surprised us. We realized this during the first passage at the intermediate sprint and understood that we needed to do something. The options were to cancel everything immediately or to give the public the best possible show. We had a timing point 3 km from the finish, so we believed this was the best possible solution, naturally without a stage winner. I want to think that today was the most complicated day, but we know that if there are no changes, the protests will continue. We must have Israel Premier Tech participate due to regulatory obligations, we had warned the UCI but nothing was done. Now, however, we can no longer pretend nothing happened. Dialogues and meetings await us, and I hope that measures will be taken quickly. From our side, I believe that today we made the best decision, we guaranteed safety by giving up only three kilometers of the race."