Galdakao will be the departure and arrival of one stage of the 2026 Return
Galdakao City Council and OCETA have signed an agreement that includes the municipality in the course of the next edition.
Galdakao City Council and OCETA have signed an agreement that includes the municipality in the course of the next edition.
The two Basque cyclists will take part in a race that combines asphalt and rural areas over 169 kilometres.
The Basque Country Cyclo-cross Championship and the fifth Segura Cyclo-cross Prize have been played this Sunday. In the female category, Irati Aranguren has dominated the mud of Segura.
In the male category, Ismael Esteban has won the Segura cyclo-cross prize, while the Basque txapela has been for the ermuarra Aitor Hernández , second.
This year has been the year of Tadej Pogačar, the Slovenian has left everyone with his mouth full: he has won twenty victories and has dominated the Tour by winning the fourth. Not for nothing, he has prevailed in the three monuments and managed to wear the rainbow jersey for the second time, he has been the best both in the World Cup and in Europe.
Visma, on the other hand, has shown a good level in the big rounds: Simon Yates won the Giro by surprise and Vingegaard in the Return to Spain.
On the other hand, in the monuments that Pogačar has not won, Van der Poel has won, while Evenepoel has proved to be the best against the clock, winning the European and World Championships.
To highlight the brand of the UAE team, which has won 97 wins, the highest number ever achieved.
In the female category, Ferrand-Prévot has won the Tour for the first time, the Giro has been won by Longo Borghini and in the Vuelta, Vollering has demonstrated his superiority.
Finally, Paula Ostiz has made a spectacular moment of form: the Pamplonese has worn the rainbow jersey at the Junior World Cup and the European has won in both tests.
81. The Return to Spain will begin in Monaco on Saturday 22 August and, with 21 stages, will end in Granada on Sunday 13 September.
The fifteen cyclists who make up the 2026 season staff will meet in the municipality of Alicante between 14 and 21 December.
The training team of the Basque Country Foundation, a subsidiary of Euskaltel-Euskadi, announced on Monday the addition of seven cyclists.
Invited by his manager, Haimar Etxeberria is spending a week in Gran Canaria training these days with people like Pogacar, Sivakov or Philips, and from now on these great names will be his usual rivals.
The Irundarra cyclist, after performing at a remarkable level last season, leaves Kern Pharma to take the step of competing on the World Tour with the German team, where cyclists like Evenepoel and Roglic run.
Thus, throughout his career, the Navarro team has registered a cyclist with two stage wins from the Tour de France and five from the Giro de Italia. Gaviria, 31, has arrived from the Movistar to the Caja Rural-Seguros RGA.