What will be the highlight from the 104th edition of Volta Cyclist to Catalonia?
We keep the style of recent years, with stages for all tastes. Being Volta a seven -day breed we need to make sure there are stages that can be attractive to different types of corridors. And since recent years this method has worked well for us, in the face of this edition of Volta we have maintained a proposal similar to that in other years, changing the tour of its entirety.
In seven stages, there are three high arrival and keep the sun in the Berguedà region, which last year was a show.
This stage you say is amazing -amazing, with a large amount of audience. The tour is really attractive -there is a great exhibition of runners and yes, we will repeat, but we will change the tour a little.
Volta can boast of counting in recent years with flowers and cycling cream. Pogacar, EvenEPOEL and this year repeats the Roglic and Debuts Vingegaard.
Yes, the registered list is luxurious. There will also be more and Landa and a great representation of Catalan cyclists, such as Pau Miquel or Roger Adrià, I think it will be an amazing Volta in terms of the route, but ultimately, most importantly, the show is provided by runners.
Where is the formula to have such a beautiful runner? Do you think they talk between them about how positive the Volta is to run?
I like to think about it, I think that the team that makes us make Volta tries to be serious, tight and make stages that attract everyone. In seven days you cannot make inventions. With a good return you can do them and if it goes wrong, it’s wrong, but in seven days if an invention is mistaken you ruin the race. That is why we have been trying to maintain this method of recent years, with two or three stages of the mountain and a length for rollers. We are satisfied with participating. Everyone talks about the numbers, but many others come.
He knew that there were always Catalonia areas that complained that the race was not visiting them.
It is seven days not giving more. Mount Catalonia is where it is. It is impossible for everything to be happy and I understand. Everyone was doing their tour, and we went to the populations that asked us and cooperate with the economy.
Is it hard to find who is working with economically?
Catalan companies do not bet on cycling. At the institutional level, starting with Geralitat, following councils and municipalities, we enjoy, but we have not found the solution to the companies’ issue. There is no way to cooperate with the economy and I don’t know why this happened. In addition, Volta in Catalunya, like all cycling, is a very good, promotion of country and country tourism.
We talked before and told me that Volta was not profitable.
No, it’s not and we’re not looking for it either. Ultimately, we are a club and we do not seek to make money, but it is clear that we cannot lose. We need to cover the budget.
Another year they also estimated the Volta female, with three stages and stages in the coll de pal.
Yes, and we put a mountain phase. This is a very difficult stage, but we also have to do female trials to have their stubbornness, to have their what is and don’t think that because it is a cycling female we have to do it. We should check what runners are, their appearance, but do not fall into what is because it is easier to make it easier. As an arrangement you need to think about the race and not the gender of cyclists.
The promise of the Volta woman is clear.
Yes, we have left from one day to a three -estage Volta female. The next three editions will keep three stages and then try to grow. This is a currency issue, a budget issue. Ultimately, what commands are money.
Barcelona and cycling are fashionable. The Volta is deciding in Montjuïc, in 2026 the tour de France will leave and the woman’s return will be three months.
Barcelona focuses on cycling and betting on the government’s cycling of the Generalitat government, in this case the ministry of esports, the bets on Diputació de Barcelona and the remaining deputations, which help cycling and the Volta, and as the city council of Barcelona said it is falling into biking, like many Municipalities of Catalonia, What is happening to Volta.
You see them in all colors, how many editions do you have in Volta?
I started in 1983, then I was not four years and since 2023 I was the general director.
Identify the map of Catalonia as the living room of his house, what stage of the dream is not made?
If I had to be honest there was a stage I took the spine two years ago when we went to the perfine. I’m glad to go to Catalonia Nord.
And there will be a stage of the L’Alaer, which seems complicated.
We went in 1976, but now this is not possible because in seven days we do not have the time to make the move. When we went in 1976 we had another day, rest, but the calendar was tight and the ICU would not give another day.
I commented on L’Alorca, but Mallorca would be a good choice
It will be closer, it will be easier. Going to the Balearic Islands will be a great choice, but not in the near future.
He talked about going to the Volta route insurance, but some say it was necessary to shake it a bit and include the example of sections of the land, which they liked too much.
The truth is that the opportunity does not come out. If we were doing a tour we had seen a sterric zone to do it we would do it, but we didn’t find it. I like, I didn’t tell her no.
How is this early season, with new punishment steps?
Honestly, there is something to do and I don’t know if yellow cards will end with effectiveness. We need to see how the weather changes and see what happens. Yes, a little hard hand is needed, and I think you need to be punished by time or points than money, because you are punished with money there are teams that are a lot.
Volta can invite a lot more equipment than large laps and where formations to play a turn, tour or return is key.
It does not affect us because we can fulfill it, but to the great three it is a big problem. The ICU needs to study this topic and open the hand in front of three good.
And, do you think the work of the organizer, who sometimes receives more criticism than compliments?
Don’t appreciate everything behind a race meeting. Three parts interceded, the organizer, the teams as a company and cyclists, and we all needed it. The organizer puts the theater, but without the artists there is no operation, and a company that captures these artists is required. We need to put everything on each other’s skin, and we must think that there are companies that put money to sign some runners and we should think that these runners are people and life is played and there is a well -preparing land. We have to work all three parts so that cycling is a show.
Source: La Verdad
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