The Hotel Carlemany in the city of Girona has become this morning the stage for the presentation of the sports program of the Sea Otter Europe Costa Brava-Girona Bike Show 2021. The festival reaches its fifth edition and will be held on September 24-26. Internationally, it will once again bring together cyclists of the highest level in the world and will also have room for lovers of this more amateur sport. With 70 percent of the retail space sold, it will have a fortnight of races for all audiences and profiles.
Wait for the participation of about 4,000 cyclists, a lower figure than usual, but that according to the organization “will allow to establish very strict controls of the security measures that will be implemented throughout the site.”
For half an hour, the sports calendar of the festival has been shelled, which this year presents one important novelty as is the arrival in Girona of the World E-Bike Series, the Electric Mountain Bike World Cup organized by the UCI (International Cycling Union). The demarcation, therefore, will host one of the six tests of this circuit, which is barely two years old.
There will also be room for the Continental Super Cup Massi, an Olympic Cross Country circuit; the Continental CIcloBrava with its three distances (70, 100 and 140 kilometers); l’Scott Marathon BTT UCI Series, with routes through the Vall del Llémena open to all mountain bike enthusiasts; the Canyon E-MTB Experience; l’MTB Classic, a race marked by nostalgia from before the 90s; the Canyon Pirinexus Challenge, an open race for the Gravel, a modality that will have two proposals, one of them of up to 340 kilometers.
The younger ones also have room, so the 2021 Sea Otter Europe will feature the Enduro BTT La Selva, a 30-kilometer race held in Riudarenes. He will join l’Open BTT Infantil, a Catalan Cup aimed at the youngest professionals in the world of cycling.
Representatives of the Girona Provincial Council and the Costa Brava Girona Tourism Board, Girona City Council, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Catalan Cycling Federation, as well as sponsors, cycling clubs, shops and establishments related to cycling, did not miss the presentation. Added the British David Millar, ambassador of one of the tests and with an enviable resume as a professional cyclist.
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