Christian Prudhomme, CEO of Tour de Francewill be launched next Wednesday in Bilbao the clock will show the countdown of one hundred days for the start of the round that will start in the Biscayan capital on July 1 and will consist of its first three stages on the Basque roads.
As announced by the Bilbao city council, Prudhomme will be accompanied by the city’s mayor, Juan Mari Aburto; Bingen Zupiria, Minister of Culture and Language Policy of the Basque Government and Elixabete Etxanobe, Provincial Deputy for Public Administration and Institution Relations and PNV candidate for Deputy General of Bizkaia.
At 7:30 pm they will all “activate a giant button” that will start the countdown in an action that will be followed by “the light on the Aznar building -in front of the town hall- of a 13-meter jersey” and then “the yellow front light of the town hall”.
Following this, there will be a tour of the center of Bilbao with a first journey between the town hall and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and then from the institutional building on Gran Vía to the San Mames stadium, which will turn yellow like the Tower. Bizkaia, the Foral Palace or the Bizkaia pediment.
At ‘La Catedral’, Athletic Bilbao will give a “special welcome” to Prudhomme, who will receive the rojiblanco team jersey from the club’s president, Jon Uriarte, and the captains of the first two teams, Iker Muniain and Garazi Murua.
The final link to these commemorative acts is the celebration on Sunday 26 of ‘Tour Eguna’ (Tour Day) with various bicycle-related activities taking place on the esplanade of the Maritime Museum.
This is the second time the Tour de France will start from a Basque capital as the most important race in the professional cycling calendar started from San Sebastián in 1992, with socialist Odón Elorza as mayor, an edition won by legendary. Navarrese cyclist Miguel Indurain , ahead of the Italians Claudio Chiapucci, second in 4′ 35″ from Navarre and Gianni Bugno, third in 10′ 49″.
Source: La Verdad
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