Enric Mas knew his Movistar team-issued kit felt especially snug and aero, but he did not realize why until a few days later.<\/p>\n
The Spanish climber, racing his first-ever Giro d\u2019Italia, has already discovered how brutal the corsa rosa<\/em> can be after losing serious time in week one. He\u2019ll start Tuesday\u2019s stage 10 time trial in 28th at 13:42 back.<\/p>\n But it was a wardrobe mishap that earned him the headlines in the Italian grand tour.<\/p>\n Sharp-eyed fans on social media noticed that Mas had been racing several Giro stages in the women\u2019s version of the Movistar team racing jersey.<\/p>\n The clue was hidden in plain sight \u2014 the jersey carried the \u201cUCI Women\u2019s World Team\u201d logo emblazoned right on his chest.<\/p>\n Reporters finally asked Mas \u2014 who\u2019s since changed back into the men\u2019s kit \u2014 about the mystery.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a small mistake, nothing special,\u201d Mas told AS<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m wearing a small size jersey, maybe they made a mistake when handing out the clothes, but it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n Mas insisted everything fit perfectly, including the bib shorts.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t notice, I just wore the clothes,\u201d Mas said. \u201cEverything was my size, and the bib shorts too, the only difference was the logo.\u201d<\/p>\n The Spanish climber, still recovering from a string of injuries and health setbacks, hopes to be hitting top form to chase a stage win in the final week of the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/giro-ditalia\/enric-mas-womens-jersey-giro-2026\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Enric-Mas-women-jersey-Giro.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 18, 2026 02:39PM Enric Mas knew his Movistar team-issued kit felt especially snug and aero, but he did not realize why until a few days later. The Spanish climber, racing his first-ever Giro d\u2019Italia, has already discovered how brutal the corsa rosa can be after losing serious time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1942536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}