«In 1992 it seemed that everyone came out to see the race»

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2023-06-25 07:38:07

Sunday, June 25, 2023, 06:34 | Updated 07:38h.

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It was here, right?” Miguel Indurain walks next to the Victoria Eugenia theater, the exact spot where in 1992 he won the prologue of the Tour de France dressed in the yellow jersey, a moment of unrepeatable cycling and social ecstasy. Elevated to the category of world star, he arrived in Donostia at the moment of maximum splendor and shone like the last king of Navarre above good and evil, before a devoted crowd. Three decades later, Indurain remembers in San Sebastián one of the culminating moments of a monumental, legendary career. A regular from Donostia, where he is often seen, he did not exactly locate the goal of that day, since the crowd covered the streets. From Avenida de la República Argentina, where the finish line of the 1992 prologue was, you can see the Kursaal, where the finish line of the second stage of the Tour was 31 years ago and will be located again next Sunday.

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