ANDhe platoon is already complete in the Tour de France. This Saturday starts the ‘Big Boucle’ with a great stage starting and finishing in Bilbao. 14 of the participants are Spanish and half (7) are Basque.
Sepulchral minute of silence for the Bahrain Victorious in memory of Gino Mder
The last stage winner in this race was omar friar, who will be at the starting line trying to actualize his success. That was in Mende, in 2018. Two men who have options to achieve it are Ion Izagirre and Pello Bilbao.
Matxin, in MARCA: “Let’s go with everything to the Tour”
“I think we can achieve it. In my case I have already done it in the past. We are confident. I come with that objective. Winning on the Tour are always big words, but we can achieve it,” he said. Izagirre this Thursday on Radio MARCA.
Pello Bilbao: “I dream of the first yellow”
Bilbao is shown in the same line. “I am in a great moment of form, perhaps the best of the entire season. I know that we have to be thinking about the group and that we are going for everything with Mikel, but then we will also have our chances. The first stage is an option, but it will not be easy,” the man from Bahrain told this newspaper.
Josu Larrazabal: “Sign Landa? There have been contacts…”
For that first day in Bilbao you also have options Alex Aranburu, from Movistar. “I had been waiting all year for this moment. We are very excited, above all. I like the first stage, there will be people like Van Aert or Alaphilippe, to say two names, who have many ballots. But here anything can happen and we are going to try, “he explained on the sports radio.
This was Castroviejo’s reaction when he found out from MARCA that he was the Spanish champion
Looking at the future
For Gorka, Ion’s brother, hopes go “through a leak”. Being a team man and being focused on Enric, but nothing can be ruled out.
This was the presentation of the 2023 Tour de France in Bilbao
The same thing happens to Castroviejo, that he should be aware of his leaders in Ineos. He comes from winning the Spanish time trial Championship. She has not forgotten to raise her arms and last year she was close to doing so. That he won would not be crazy.
Mikel Landa: “I dream of the podium”
TO Michael Landa, more focused on the general, it is difficult for him to win. He has never done it in the Tour, but he has in the other two big ones: Giro and Vuelta. “I’m thinking about the general, but if things don’t go well during the first week, look at going in stages.” The undertaking will not be easy, but they all agree: “It’s time to end the streak and make Omar’s victory ‘old’.”
