Two stages after the triumph of Pello Bilbao from Biscay in the tenth stage that ended a five-year drought for Spanish cycling in the Tour, Ion Izagirre from Gipuzkoa won the twelfth day. Fleeing. He was the best in the breakaway and entered the finish line in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, land of wine, alone. Izagirre has been able to toast as he did in 2016 when he won for the first time on the Grande Boucle, then in Morzine. At 34 years old, the rider from Ormaiztegi has accumulated a good record, which includes victories in the three grand tours. He reached the final stretch in time to congratulate the birthday of one of his daughters, to celebrate it and, once the banner was crossed, to hug the members of his team and burst into tears of joy. The Tour that began in Bilbao already has two victories for Basque riders.
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“I had been trying all my career. And he has arrived today. It has been exciting. This morning he congratulated my daughter because it was her fourth birthday. We are away from each of them for so many days, we miss so many things… He’s going for her, “Izagirre declared with a broken voice.
The day before three days in the mountains has been a carousel of attacks. Without truce. The good leak has formed after almost two hours of torture. And in it were two Cofidis runners, Ion Izagirre and Guillaume Martin. With them were Van der Poel, Jorgensson, Pinot, Benoot and Johannessen. Izagirre has had a hard time on some of the ascents, but on the last one, the Croix Rosier, he has attacked. It seemed that it was to act as a springboard for his partner Martin, but no one has followed him.
In the Cofidis cars, two directors from Biscay, Bingen Fernández and Gorka Gerrikagoitia, rubbed their hands with the possibility of scoring another victory after Lafay’s in San Sebastián. Izagirre has crowned with 24 seconds and has maintained that lead in the almost 30 kilometers to the finish line. Having Martin behind, who acted as a brake, benefited him. That and the wind in favor. At the finish line he has displayed his joy by taking his second stage in the history of the Tour. The peloton reached four minutes, with the leader, Vingegaard, and with Pogacar, Carlos Rodríguez and Pello Bilbao, fifth overall. Everyone is quoted with the next mountain.
Izagirre will face it with the job done. After several crashes that have marked his sporting career, the Gipuzkoan cyclist has entered the list of double Tour stage winners.
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He comes from a cycling family. His father, José Ramón, was a two-time Spanish cyclocross champion. Ion and his brother, Gorka, unknowingly attended one of those mud races. Stuck in the baby carriage. They breathed in the scent of those battles. Maybe that’s why they grew warriors. They chose his father’s job, to the misfortune of his mother, who couldn’t cope with the washing machine. So many muddy clothes. Ion immediately won, in 2012, the Falzes stage in the Giro with the Euskaltel jersey. And he won in Morzine, after a soaked descent in the 2016 Tour. He left Movistar to be more free and already at 30 years old and in Astana he closed the debt of Basque cycling with Itzulia. Sixteen years after Iban Mayo, Izagirre prevailed in 2019 in the Tour of the Basque Country.
A year later, he completed his collection by winning a stage of the Tour of Spain. He had already left his mark on the Tour, the Giro and the Vuelta. He now takes another step and wins for the second time in this edition of the Grande Boucle that started from Euskadi. The most Basque Tour.
2023-07-13 20:24:25
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