Iker Vicente: "I get excited and mentally fresh, because the preparation hasn't been too long."
"I think I'm at a very good time," explained the Ochagavian aizkolari in the run-up to the challenge against Eneko Otaño. "It's going to be very difficult, it's a lot of seconds to take it off," he admits. "I'm going to have to have a cool head," he adds.
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Eneko Otaño: "If I can do what I've done at home in the square, I have a chance of winning."
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The final of the Euskal Timber has been presented; it will be on Saturday
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