Once the eleventh stage of the Tour of Spain, neutralized three kilometers from the goal, the Spanish Carlos Verona, cyclist of the Lidl-Trek, attended the media to give its version about what happened. “When they tell you in the absence of 15 kilometers that the stage is not going to end, well, it is a shame, especially after having been working all day and seeing so many people on the road, but well, security is first,” he started in the microphones of Eurosport.
“Hopefully, to whom it corresponds within the International Cycling Union to take measures so that this is not repeated again,” he added, referring to the organ that governs world cycling; “We have to try to keep the sport away from politics, because I think, what we want is to enjoy the sport, give our 100% and make this [mundo] a better place. ”
“I understand that when there are political issues in between this is not always possible and there are people who protest,” he continued; “But hey, hopefully this is not repeated anymore and that if people want to express, that it is in their entire right, to do so in a peaceful way and without compromising the integrity of what we are here. Yesterday we already had a fall, today in the end I do not know what has happened, but there were enough disturbances, and well, I think you have to try to avoid this in sport and in life.”
Thus, invited by the journalist of Eurosportthe Madrid concluded his intervention by launching a message to the protesters: “I would tell them that they are in their right to do what they do, but please do not use cycling for it; in the end, here we are many people who are not within that problem, but that we can have our personal opinion about what happens there. That they do not use cycling to do that because there are many people who are paying for this, from the organization. A lot of love, to the runners, who have been fighting for showing all day and in the end we have not been able to do so.
Carlos Verona, very criticized in networks
Verona’s statements, even with the helmet in the head and sweat on the forehead, catapulted the Madrid cyclist at the top of the top of the highest from the highest of the cyclist tendencies In social networks, where thousands of users criticized their vision after what happened. The political analyst, usual in the program Bad tongues Spanish Television, replied to Lidl-Trek’s cyclist on Network X with the following comment: “It was better to get the microphone away.” Many users lamented Verona’s attitude for having been “equidistant” in the face of such conflict.
Bilbao’s, in any case, will not be the last popular protest for the participation of the Premier-Tech Israel in the Tour of Spain. In solidarity with the Palestinian people, a group of residents of Llanes (Asturias) has summoned a “peaceful but forceful” protest against the Israeli genocide for 13.30 this Friday, just when, with the end of the Angliru, it takes place through the viewpoint of San Antolin de Bedón, on the road that joins the municipality with ships.
