like it or not he cycling It’s a sport for heroes and the legend would already be over if Charly Gaul’s feats were not remembered under the snows of the Giro, Bernard Hinault in short sleeves when all his rivals were freezing to death or Pedro Delgado facing the storm of Gavia.
Cycling is not an indoor sport. Men or women who practice it must face the challenges, become titans or titans because any offensive only makes them become heroes or heroines, those who go up to the mountains when the temperature drops or when a city puts on its worst maskunexpectedly, because sometimes the weather is like that and no matter how many forecasts are made, they fail and turn day into night.
Being a cyclist does not mean getting into your team car when it rains or touching the brake too much on a descent or asking your rivals to calm down when the heat is on, or stopping at a roadside bar for a drink, a breather, a moment of rest There are no changes, nor bench. You are a starter for 21 stages, from Barcelona to Madrid overcoming all the challenges and passing through territories with differences in the ways of thinking and even in the expression of languages.
very bad leg
The premiere of the Vuelta had a very bad leg because It hadn’t rained in Barcelona for months and because the forecasts never indicated what happened, the prevailing darkness and even the need to touch the brake more than necessary and not risk your skin because surely the times of the general that occurred in the Catalan capital will only be an anecdote in what What will happen from now on from here to Madrid.
Cycling is a sport for heroes, but you also have to help them. The world changes and we see it every day reflected in society’s response to any out-of-place dispute, action or comment. For this reason, it is necessary to prevent them, at least, from becoming superheroes, it is better to leave it as a hero project and if we can make them arrive at 5 in the afternoon, at the usual time, better than risking the universal deluge. over Barcelona almost at 9 at night.
The profession of cyclist
However, when you become a cyclist you know that you will be cold, that you will get wet, that you will have to risk your skin on a descent, gritting your teeth climbing at devilish speed through ports where sometimes the temperature will make you sweat until you run out of liquid in your body. Because the more heroic your victory is, the more reward you will receive, but without forgetting that this sport must be humanized, because if we go through impossible feats there will always be the temptation to re-enter the tunnel of potions and druids and here it is not worth the effort. dilemma that any past time was better. The next time the heroes ride their bikes in Barcelona, they should do it at 5 in the afternoon because, as Federico García Lorca wrote, wounds burn like suns at that time.
2023-08-27 07:11:38
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