Days have passed since main street of Bilbao and good part of Basque Country is already wearing the distinctive yellow color of Tour de France. Since it was announced in March 2021 that the 110th edition of Large Boucle will start on July 1 with a stage in Bilbao, hope is growing in a land that loves cycling like few others, that enjoys one of the best fans and that will throw itself into the mother of all cycling race, with two complete stages passing through Basque land and with a third starting from Amorebieta to head bayonne.
Two first days in which the show is guaranteed with two moderate mountain routes where there are many candidates for victory, with an entertainment that will surely fill the sides of the road to the brim, especially the various ports to crown, and where the great favorites and candidates for the final glory to Paris they had to be careful because of the nerves that would build in the peloton, in one of the most spectacular and contested starts in memory of the Tour de France, where the words of engagement were not thought of.
The public institutions of Basque Country They invested twelve million euros to host the great start of the Tour, but they hope to multiply tenfold the economic return on the investment and the presence of more than 100,000 visitors to see the second start of the Tour in Euskadi because made it was in 1992 in San Sebastian with the victory of Miguel Indurain in the prologue. San Sebastian himself and success they have already hosted the finals of the Tour in Euskadi, where local fans breathed a sigh of relief to see one of their riders achieve victory; there are candidates
Of the 14 Spanish cyclists who started the Tour, seven were Basque. In their favor, the nervous route of the first stages and the desire for glory that, supported by their fans, will make the Basque and Spanish riders give their all. The Spanish Armada consisted of Marc Soler, Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao, Enric Mas, Álex Aranburu, Antonio Pedrero, Gorka Izagirre, Carlos Rodríguez, Jonathan Castroviejo, Omar Fraile, Juanpe López, Luis León Sánchez, David de la Cruz and Ion Izagirre.
THE BEST TOUR DEPARTURE
1954 Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1958 Brussels (Belgium)
1965 Cologne (Germany)
1973 Scheveningen (Netherlands)
1975 Charleroi (Belgium)
1978 Leiden (Netherlands)
1980 Frankfurt (Germany)
1982 Basel (Switzerland)
1987 Berlin (Germany)
1989 Luxembourg
1992 San Sebastian (Spain)
1996 Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands)
1998 Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
2002 Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
2004 Liege (Belgium)
2007 London (England)
2009 Monaco
2010 Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2012 Liege (Belgium)
2014 Leeds (England)
2015 Utrecht (Netherlands)
2017 Düsseldorf (Germany)
2019 Brussels (Belgium)
2022 Copenhagen (Denmark)
2023 Bilbao (Spain)
14 runners with different ambitions in the benchmark race on the calendar and where only the big stars are missing PRimoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel. There are those who come to the Tour thinking of the general, especially landa, more either Bilbao. But in the minds of all of them, two sayings to overcome: the last podium (Alejandro Valverde3rd in 2015) and the last victory of a Spanish rider in the Tour de France, was achieved by brother omar in the 14th episode of the gala round of the year 2018
Source: La Verdad
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