There were many emotions because bilbao hair He wanted to win the first stage he passed from his home. He remembered his friend Gino Mäder, who was killed on the Tour of Switzerland last month.. From the pulpit he looked up at the sky and dedicated the victory to it. one01 stages later, on July 21, 2018, since another Biscayan, Omar Fraile, won At Mende airport, there had been no Spanish victory. Tour de FranceIt’s like a curse that hasn’t existed since the 50s of the last century when grandparents wore the uniforms of champions Miquel Poblet or Federico Bahamontes.
Bilbao is a finisher, he would be a striker if he had dedicated himself to another sport. He’s one of those who don’t do it to get caught if they get away, and gives their sponsors miles of free TV commercials. If Pello escapes, he will win, as he did in Issoire, and also ranked fifth overall.
When Tur was about to give birth, her parents were eating at a restaurant in Gernika and talking about their son. Father Julen recommended the hailfish and peppers, which were carefully kept in the village. They never encouraged his son to become a cyclist, He started with football until he was disappointed with the ball.. Mother Elena added that her son did not miss any stage, unlike other mothers, if he suffered, he carried it inside. His uncle Juan, who lives in Tarragona, has announced that his nephew will win a stage in this Tour. And that there is no greater fan of Pello in the entire world than Juan Bilbao, nor perhaps his family. His home appears to be a sanctuary dedicated to Pello, because his grandfather, like many young people of the time, was a cyclist until the civil war destroyed his sports dreams.
Pello had a good getaway. He carried fearsome foes like Julian Alaphilippe and Michal Kwiatwoski., two former world champions. The round had turned into a pan, and on top of that, initially Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar decided to play cat and mouse and ran off to sound all the alarms. But Pello has already walked with them. The day was marked in red, and thanks to the Gernika tree, victory would not be able to escape from it..
It was known from the start of the tour that if there was a cyclist to raise his arms on a stage, it would have to be Pello, who had already won the Giro, was fast, tactically good, and even better at riding. More so than Mikel Landa, who was appointed head of Bahrain, both teams, from the very beginning.
For this reason Parting of the day occurred when Vingegaard and Pogacar got tired of playingWhat Catalan Antonio Pedrero also went forward, all or nothing, was to arrive earlier if they pushed back and not experience too much heat in the soils of ancient volcanoes.
It was the Bilbao group that always dominated the scene. You had to push but you shouldn’t go too far because if Pello, who is 11th by Tuesday, breaks the bank, all the teams including Jumbo and UAE will shoot like crazy and it will be the death of the getaway.
There was no need to lose the north when Latvian cyclist Krists Neilands decided to run away at the final stage of the stage. Calmness, Pello would have caught him because the best thing for him was the opponent pedaling in the back, not the front. Alaphilippe, who was faster than he, the only one who could steal the victory from him, was left in the last little port of the day..
So he calmly caught up with Neilands and prepared to win. to dedicate the victory to Mäder, rise to fifth place in the overall standings and break through the enormous drought in Spain. “There were a lot of emotions in one day – he admitted after the victory “So I had to calculate at this stage. I knew I was the fastest.” And he won, when all of Gernika burst out in joy, after Julen and Elena, at their own discretion, Juan was in complete bliss and his wife Andrea followed him to the end of the Pyrenees with little Martina in her arms. . After 101 stages, Pello broke the curse.