Joxean Etxeberria, a native of Ziga, challenges the entire aizkolaris team to a bet next spring, the conditions of which will be finalized on Sunday the 21st. … 6 p.m. at the Kantabriko bar in Tolosa. The idea is a long job of cutting with an ax and about 4,000 euros at stake, with one particularity: Iker Vicente, Mikel Larrañaga, Hodei Ezpeleta, Eneko Otaño and Julen Alberdi are excluded.
If it comes to fruition, it would be the fifth challenge in which Etxeberria participates. In 2017, Zaldua was measured in a mixed cut-and-run bet that ended up winning. In 2019 he faced Kortxero in a task of four oinbikos and eight kanaerdikos. The last two were last year against Basozabal (three 60-inch logs and 18 kanaerdikos) and Gabirondo (16 60-inch logs), with victory for the Navarrese from Ziga.
Etxeberria, therefore, remains undefeated. He tells of his experience through victories with the addition of not being a professional with the ax since he works as an accountant in a company and in the afternoons he attends to the family livestock business in Sabatenea. «Betting is the most beautiful thing about aizkora. I hope someone shows up on Sunday the 21st,” says Etxeberria.
Izeta IV, on the right, with some friends on Thursday night at the Izeta cider house
Ivan Montero
Izeta is left alone in his challenge
On the other hand, no one accepted the challenge posed by Izeta VI. The pentathlon champion had posed a challenge consisting of lifting the 100 kilo spherical stone 50 times, cutting ten kanaerdikos and running five kilometers. The appointment was yesterday at the Izeta cider house with the idea of making the bet in March or April. Nobody showed up.
