Joane Somarrabi: “Woman’s cycling makes you vibrate and get up from the couch”

Joane, at the gates of the beginning of the third edition of the Women’s Tour, what do you think is the race route.

I think this is the hardest and most demanding tour ever. Neila’s stage I think will be very difficult and decisive, with those two climbers, one of them is complete, the latter, but they are climbing with unevenness and past demanding and then the final stage, that’s Asturias. This will be a Kapana -excited lap, where we will have incredible moments, because now both female cycling as men make you vibration and lift from the couch, and we will enjoy it.

What do you like about this third edition of La Vuelta?

I want to return to leave Barcelona. We should thank the effort that the race left this beautiful city. The male return will come and now it is the female test with the counterreloj. I have always been a counterrelojes and this is a discipline that I like a lot and seemed very amazing -amazing for the public, from the material they carry, the way to enjoy every team and every broker. This is a way to enjoy more of the races and meet more runners. And I liked the tour to end, the truth.

Do you want the counterreloj team to be put on the first day?

It’s nice that this is the first day. The first contact time of the test seems to be successful, is something that is done with many laps and something runners want. And now, as a viewer, I want to enjoy it.

He said he wanted to enjoy cycling as a viewer, would he now suffer more cycling or his runner?

Now I suffer from falling, I spend deadly. If I watch it on TV I can’t and I have to turn my head. There are ugly falls and for me this is the worst of cycling. Then I live the stages and races itself with a lot of emotions. It’s like a good time for the viewer and for the passionate cycling, because we have runners and runners of a high level. There is a huge evolution in cycling.

At what level is the current area of ​​female cycling?

Honestly, I think it’s more. We have seen runners like Pauline (Ferrand-Prévot), who is the best of the mountain bike and this season has passed the road. Now there are runners with a lot of potential and it opens the more racing coverage, making them more open. So far there are runners who come out of any race and favorites. This year I think it’s a bit different. This vollering (Demi, champion of Women’s Tour 2024) which is very powerful, which is perhaps in the big turn is the unable to broker, but the fact that Van der Breggen (Anna) will come for example for example, will make the race more dispute and we will enjoy it.

And within this context, where is the area of ​​Spanish cycling?

We have Mavi (Garcia), he is a veteran but is at a very good level. It’s a very regular broker, which makes things great. He is very fixed and still has a strap for more. Then, we had Ane Santesteban, on the House team, at work-Kutxa, it was a broker who came from spending a difficult year, last year did not accompany his health and came back with great desire. This year he started well, he was in place and motivated, with great enthusiasm and I wanted him best because he was a true fighter.

Without hesitation he was a fighter, and, in fact, last February he announced that in a gynecological examination he examined a cyst in the ovary and an endometriosis (a disease which, out of the uterus, a tissue similar to the internal mucosa of the uterus that could cause severe pelvis pain).

He was a brave and trained fighting. Above the present and the past he was caught, as he was 33 years old, and saw the process of all female cycling. It’s from being out, coming out, being on teams with a very good budget and going through all these processes, and strong.

A good friend of her and a great champion like you, Dori Ruano, said about the level of female cycling that runners now are no longer running like young.

Exactly, now all the teams are very powerful, with many resources and everything is very measured and controlled and especially running as men, and it is seen in careers, where everything is more controlled. Tour de France looked at 2024 the show that lived between Vollering and Nieves (Katarzyna). All the female races of cycling are very interesting and we enjoy a lot.

And, seeing the level of current female cycling, do you feel a little envy that is not satisfied with as much help, without living in the time of professional a female cycling like the present?

Yes, in the end our time is very complicated, because we barely have resources and it is complicated that many times you want to throw away the towel, but we believe so much and we love what we did that we never stopped fighting. Envy? No, I feel joy for everything that happens, I feel joy because they deserve all the best and when you say all the money I love I love, hopefully he and all the money. I feel happy. Ultimately, cycling is like a difficult sport, where the woman is always in the shadow, it is time for the runners to have their place and have the right, which is amazing -amazing cycling.