The podium of the Tour of Colombia 2024: Diego Camargo (left), Rodrigo Contreras (champion) and Wilson Peña (der.).
Photo: FCC
To start, it's time to return almost 80 years! It was the 50s and one day, Efraín the “Zipa” Forero came up that in Colombia a career should be made like the great cycling in Europe. The idea was born, he told any afternoon, when he entered the office of Guillermo Pignalosa, president of the Cundinamarca Cycling League, and saw foreign magazines on the table. In them, legends like Fausto Coppi and Hugo Koblet appeared conquering the turn and the tour. “And when do we go back to Colombia?” He asked, …
