It’s like a tradition. For a long time, in Mundo Deportivo there is a custom that indicates that the year is about to end. Toni Bou never fails and always comes to the editorial office of MD at these times to share his ambition and hunger for more titles. He has been doing this with a motorcycle for a while. Repsol Honda Team, which he used to walk the corridors of this newspaper jumping between tables and chairs. Even jumping to the journalist who writes these lines, next to the keyboards who year after year narrate their successes. Because that’s what he does: win and keep winning.
He already has 34 world titles. And recognize that There were too many glasses and too big to fit in his house and he had to distribute them around his parents’ house.
Last weekend, at the Madrid Arena, he won his 17th X-Trial World Championship (indoor). Two months before, he celebrated his 17th outdoor crown (TrialGP). He achieved the 33 and 34. And if it continues like this, on 2026 may reach 40, round number that everyone asks you about. But his goal is not that, it is to keep winning and having fun.
The ‘egoism’ of a champion
When you talk about F1, many fans complain about the same thing: “Verstappen always wins.” Toni had heard the speech many times and couldn’t help but see herself. “It has happened to me, and it has happened to me a lot when someone talks about Marc Márquez. ‘Marc always wins,’ they told me. And I responded: ‘It happens to me too…’”. This is where one of the keys to consistently winning comes into play. “To win for many years, an athlete has to be very selfish in the sense that he has to look after himself. That the others deserved to win didn’t even cross my mind. You think about yourself and do your best to win. If the day comes when you think: ‘there is another driver who deserves to win more than me, poor boy’, that day will be the end of you as an athlete, because if you let your guard, it’s over. “
Without harm
But when asked if that was about to happen, he smiled mischievously. He is 37 years old, but he is still the same as before. Not only in character, but also in the same born winner with a quality that does not lose the carats. After 3 years of accumulating injuries until 2022, he began to question whether age was taking its toll on him: “It was difficult for me to start and I don’t really understand if it’s because of my age or because I haven’t been able to recover properly and I suffered a series of injuries because of that.”. This is the second. He recovered well and made it through 2022 injury free. And this course has passed its second year without a hitch. He is focused on winning and enjoying himself. A homeless champion. Invincible. As long as he wants.
Demand for the future: “we demand changes”
As the king of trials, he also thinks about the good of his sport. We need to attract the attention of more fans. Bou led the pilots’ fight, urging the FIM to make the necessary change: “Testing needs changes. Above all, outdoor tests, which I see as the most complicated because of the regulations, which are difficult to understand. It is old and should reach people. We have been asking for this for years and after the Covid-19 measures were taken. Your legacy will be your titles. But he also wants to fight to make the trials of life better. This is Toni Bou, the best of all time
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
