2023-06-25 00:43:31
The history of the Tour also runs through Basque cycling. Since a pioneer like Vicente Blanco ‘El Cojo’ decided to line up in 1910 in that race he had heard about that was held in France, until the last stage victory of a national runner in the race, the one achieved by Omar Fraile in Mende in 2018. A story that is reflected in detail in the 108 pages that El CORREO has prepared in a special supplement that readers will be able to enjoy on Friday, June 30.
108-page special supplement
The history of the Basques in the Tour and the seven victories of the Spanish cyclists
Bahamontes, the pioneer
The five of Indurain
Beloki’s podiums
The evolution of bicycles
Basque companies and cycling
In the supplement, in magazine format, the journalists Jesús Gómez Peña, Igor Barcia, Lucas Irigoyen, Carlos Pérez de Arrilucea, Mikel Uriarte, Jesús Ugalde and Josu García are in charge of conducting the interviews and reports that make up this tour that EL has prepared. MAIL to commemorate the Grand Départ from Euskadi. In addition, Gonzalo de las Heras has prepared a spectacular infographic in which he illustrates the evolution of bicycles.
In the supplement, where the lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, and the director of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme, write to tell what a Grand Départ means in the Basque lands, the history of two cycling greats such as Miguel Induráin and Federico Martín Bahamontes is reviewed. The Navarrese, winner of five Tours and protagonist of a golden age of Spanish cycling. The Toledo, the first national runner to win the gala round and treated as a hero upon his return.
In the pages of the supplement that EL CORREO will offer on the 30th there are reports with all those Basque riders who won a stage in the Tour, such as Loroño, Errandonea, Aurelio González… And with those who at some point wore the yellow jersey, such as This was the case of Gregorio San Miguel and Igor González de Galdeano. There are interviews with Iban Mayo, winner in Alpe d’Huez, and Samuel Sánchez, who led Euskaltel Euskadi to the Tour podium by winning the mountain in 2011. Also with Joane Somarriba, the great Biscayan cyclist who won the women’s Tour. And if we talk about great moments, the first victory of the orange team in the French round cannot be forgotten. This newspaper once again took Roberto Laiseka to the ramps of Luz Ardiden to remember that enormous triumph of the Biscayan in the 2001 Tour.
The Basque fans also have their section on the pages, as well as the two great teams that have marked an era in cycling in the Basque Country. First the KAS, with great riders who shone in all the races of the 70s. And then the Euskaltel, which promoted the orange tide that the Tour likes so much. Basque companies focused on cycling have their report, as do young people who dream of emulating their idols. All in a spectacular 108-page supplement, ready to be enjoyed.
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