Controversial statement by the female director Itzulia: “They almost forced us to fix it. It’s a matter of fashion"

Ang Director General of Euskadi Cycling Organizations (OCETA)organizing the company of major cycling careers Basque Country, Julian Erasomade some controversial statements on Radio Marca Bilbao, which caused a great deal of controversy and even resulted in an official statement for the race itself.

“We were almost forced to fix it. It is a matter of fashion. In the end …, equality, such … The correveidile … Everyone says that things must be done for women’s sport and it has also touched cycling , “aniya. Julian Erazo.

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In turn, he is confident that the career will go further in the next editions: “Hopefully we can put it together and start working and in a few years we won’t have to worry about why we’re doing it” .

After a few hours, this is the official press release we received from Itzulia: “Female La Itzulia born from the need to regain a great race of the women’s stage in the Basque Country after the loss of Emakumeen Bira and the destined success of the first two editions of San Sebastian Women’s Classic.

The aim of the organization is and is to promote women’s cycling in Euskadi, which also responds to a clear vocation of our institutional partners (City Councils, Provincial Councils and Basque Government).

Our support and commitment as a women’s cycling organization is clear. The organization regrets the misunderstanding and the discomfort that has formed and hopes that the unfortunate comments expressed by Julián Eraso, president of OCETA, on Radio Marca Bilbao, do not detract from the great step forward that the arrival of Itzulia Women represents the ecosystem of races that make up the International women’s cycling calendar.