Thursday, April 6, 2023, 8:44 p.m.
Rigoberto Urán is a special cyclist. The Colombian is one of the veterans of the peloton and has a more than respectable track record, having been second twice in the Giro and once in the 2017 Tour. like nobody else in each race and is capable of making the fans wave from the team presentation podium. Of course, in Itzulia he has also been the protagonist for his acid criticism of the organizers for this year’s tour. “This Basque Country is a little different from what we are always used to because they always do stages going up, and this year everything going down, what happened to the organization, why did they always do this shit ‘pa bajo'”, he asked himself in one Itzulia interview.
When explaining that the Basque round had been criticized on other occasions for its excessive hardness, the Colombian admitted it, but did not stop complaining as the good climber he has always been. «Yes, but let’s see, it is a very important country in cycling and how they put all the descents down, why don’t they do Arrate and a typical race in the Basque Country. The Basques should not be happy».
Yesterday at the start his anger had passed and he decided to put a point of humor to defuse the situation. So, selfie stick in hand, he was in charge of publicizing and recording all his EF teammates in the team presentation and was in charge of directing the wave that the fans made. A whole character.
