Barcelona sprint at full speed to welcome the grand start of Tour de France shortly, after this year the ‘Grande Boucle’ will leave Florence, Italy) and next year I will do it from French soil, Lille. The possibility of the city of Barcelona to host the start of the Tour is gaining more and more strength. The council of Barcelona has been working in offices for more than six years to realize this and the beginning this year of Giro d’Italia from Turin and the fact that ‘Big Boucle’ from Florence made Barcelona’s candidacy topical again.
Barcelona’s interest in hosting the start of the Tour and the strong positioning of the Catalan capital in the Champions League of international sporting events is no secret. The sports councilor of the Barcelona city council has met several times with the director of the Tour de France Christian Prudhommesuch as the day of presentation of departure and the tour of the Vuelta at the Palau de la Música Catalana, within the framework of the grand start of the Tour last year in Bilbao or recently in Paris, with the unconditional support of the mayor Jaume Collboni.
MD is in a position to prove that the negotiations between the council of Barcelona and DOGthe company that owns the Tour, and also manages the fortunes of Lap and of Cycling Tour in Catalonia among others, they are very advanced, although nothing is signed. Barcelona is not the only city that dreams of seeing the start of the Tour, which could become a reality in 2026, 2027 or 2028. The interest of the Barcelona city council is for the Catalan capital to host the Grand Departure as soon as soon, with doubt on the number of stages, two or three, depending on the rate. Suffice it to note that the cost of the grand exit of the Tour for the Basque public treasury is 12 million, most of which is assumed by the Basque Government (3.2), the city council of Bilbao (3.2 million) and the Bizkaia Provincial Council (2 ) . The Tour itself must announce which country and which city will host the start of the Tour in 2026, an announcement which must be made by June at the latest.
If the start of the most important cycling race in the world takes place in Barcelona, this will be the fourth time that the Catalan capital has opened arms in the French round, after in 1957 it did it three times – with online stage , a time trial on Montjuic and leaving the next day at Ax-les-Thermes–, that it returned in 1965 to the arrival of a period and the subsequent departure and in 2009 it accepted the end of a day that began in Girona and that the next day he left for Ordino-Arcaís (Andorra); and the third leaving the Spanish soil, then San Sebastian (1992) and Bilbao (2023).
Source: La Verdad
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