all ready to Bilbao and in Basque Country so that the ‘Grand Départ’ of the 2023 Tour de France be different and mark the before and after in the third sporting event with the biggest media and popular impact in the world after the Olympic Games and of Soccer World Cup, with a budget of 2.3 million and rewarding the final winner with 500,000 euros. Because the director of the gala round Christian Prudhomme announced in March 2021 that the 2023 Tour would begin on July 1 with a stage Bilbaowho would later go to Vitoria and San Sebastian and that he will depart on the third day of Amorebieta way of bayonnethe great outlet of ‘Big Boucle’ from the Basque Country it boils down to his debut today with a ‘house brand’ first episode that promises a lot of emotion.
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A short and explosive release, which reproduces in a certain way the essence that usually characterizes Basque events. A sporting proposal that starts and ends in Bilbao, with up to five mountain levels to climb and descend. A broken terrain, with constant ups and downs, with the best ingredients to experience a great cycling spectacle, including climbing the Laukiz (2.2km at 6.9%) just start and move on Pike (2km at 10%) Only 10 kilometers from the finish line that will surely cause endless movement in the peloton, with a double prize for the winner of the first day of doubling: stage victory and first yellow jersey.
Basque cycling fans have been counting the hours until the Tour’s multicolored snake starts rolling at 10.55am for days. The runners know the roads and the climbs in these early days and, given the profile of the stages themselves, the show is guaranteed. There are a few names to follow in the exiting mother of all cycling races. First, the ‘home’ riders like the Izagirre brothers or Pello Bilbao, and others where the design of the stages fits like a glove, is the Belgian case. Wout Van Aert, from the Dutch Mathieu Van der Poel or from the French Julian Alaphilippeto give three names.
The favorites have to go with four eyes today and tomorrow, in a tense and nervous premiere, suitable for disasters to happen, trying to avoid any fear, but as great Miguel Indurainfive-time winner of the Tour de France and winner of the prologue stage where the Tour started from San Sebastián in 1992, “those who want to win the Tour have to be there from day one. You can’t miss anything, now the differences are very small in time”.
1,700 agents of ertzaintza and 500 agents from the academy in support activities will be deployed in each stage of the Basque, of a Tour that will pass through 108 of the 252 Basque municipalities and that will move a total of 1,600 vehicles; without overlooking the 1,800 volunteers. An unprecedented security device for a unique event like the Tour, which is expected to leave between 72 and 108 million euros in Bilbao, with a global budget of 12 million euros, well invested if the great showcase is considered in the world that is the Tour de France, whose stages reach 190 countries every day, with a potential audience of 3.5 billion spectators.
Source: La Verdad
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