Carlos Tailorwinner of the 2008 Tour de France, remembered Bahamontes as “a genius rider and self-made figure” and as a “very special” person, with whom he had a close personal relationship.
“For me it is a very sad day, I had a relationship with him, but above all my father. In recent years we have been experiencing his evolution. He had a bad time since covid and has been fighting since then. He recovered a lot but then it fell. The news left me devastated, he loved me so much. When they gave me a tribute to my hometown, he showed up at the age of 90 with Indurain and Pedro Delgado,” he told EFE from in Ávila.
Tailor he prioritized the human aspect before the sport, and Águila de Toledo was always careful to advise the man from Avila in his participation in the Tour.
“I admired him, I laughed a lot with him. With Julio Jiménez he commented on his difficult experiences, and they both said it in a strange way. I had a lot of fun with him. When he ran he called me to give me advice, rare year that he didn’t call me, always looking for me,” he recalled.
Among the advice of Bahamontes to Sastrethe goal of winning the prize of the mountain always prevails.
“He always told me to try to win a stage and mountain classification,” Sastre recalled.
As a runner, “Fede is a cyclist who opened doors for many of us who came later. What he did was not easy, he was a genius runner and figure, forged himself in a slow fire, like a Toledo sword and hard as an oak, He was wise, ahead of his time,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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