almost 600,000 fans took to the streets on Saturday and Sunday to witness the first two episodes of Tour de France and more than 106,000 arrived these days in the “fan-zone” of Bilbao, attendance record in the playground of this race outside the boundaries of the gala.
These are data provided by the spokesperson for the Basque Executive, Bingen Zupiria, who together with the Security Councilor, Josu Erkoreka, made an assessment of the progress of “Grand Department” of the gala round in Euskadi, which hosts the first three stages.
On the first two (on the third still no data) “Almost 600,000 Basques took to the streets” to see the career These figures make of “Grand Department” in the “social event with the most adhesion to Basque Country in the past decades”, greeted Zupiria, who thought that for the Basques the passage of Tour It became “a great celebration.”
Besides, almost 7 million viewers in France They watched the test on the first two days (with the highest number of viewers), one million watched each episode via RTVE, another million on German television, 800,000 in Belgium, 772,000 in Italy and 6,000,000 in Denmark, said of the speaker.
On his part, the Security Councilor, Josu Erkoreka, is considered that the operation organized on the occasion of the passage of tour de france, which he defined as “an unprecedented challenge”, the Basque Country “approved it with flying colors”, so we can talk about “success”.
Source: La Verdad
I’m Robert Maynard, and I am a passionate journalist with experience in sports writing. For the last few years, I have been writing for Today Times Live. My main focus has been on sports-related stories and features. With my strong background in journalism and extensive knowledge of the industry, I am able to provide readers with well-crafted pieces that are both informative and engaging.
