The sport of cycling and The return In themselves they also need a more leisurely Barcelona journalist Juanfran de la Cruz With this new book of yours, 'Chronicles on wheels: the return to Spain', after 'Likeaf Deloor, from the return to the moon' (2018), A work on the figure of the first winner of the return that has been translated into the Dutch.
Within this context we decided that it would be best to talk to this restless Barcelona so that he himself highlighted the most relevant of his new creation. The one that follows is the conversation held.
'Chronicles on wheels: the return to Spain' has been edited by route books
What did he look for with the book 'Chronicles on wheels: the return to Spain'?
Make a new proposal in terms of a context that I missed and miss until now. The bibliography that has the return, which is not as much as the turn or tour can have, but is growing, in recent years it has supplied a lot, but is closely linked to sports adventures. It is complicated that it is from another phoma because we talk about a sporting event, but approaching the centenary I understand that we can also approach the historical evolution of the return from a different prism, where the sports is not so capital and yes about a new or greater sense to try to see or try to approach why the return is as it is or why the process of its day to day, of its year to year, of its year to year, to see where it is.
“The return within its 90 years, 80 editions, being the youngest of the three big turns, has a delicious story”
And what conclusions does it take?
This introduces us to a land that is unknown to many people because it has not been cultivated, because there has not been an intense diffusion or because when it has been disseminated, there has not been certain channels that today exist and that the message had greatly enhanced, but the return within its 90 years, 80 editions, being the youngest of the three great laps, it has a fair Historical evolution, both of the territory in which it has developed and many circumscent that has accompanied it. It is a channel, Javier Guillén – general director of the Vuelta – says it, communicative of the first order, what happens is that communication transcends because it touches territory, reflection of the evolution of a society, at the level of its improvements of living conditions, of the development of a country, the evolution of the typology of sponsorships, of the consumer goods that they want to promote, of the narrative of the media … They provide wealth to this evolution. Obviously it is not exclusive to the return, I understand that the look I contribute with this book nobody had done it and the goal is a bit, try to put in context why the return is as it is and how this path has been since it is born until we find it now.
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Why should we read this book?
In essence, I would invite you to read all cycling fans who are fond of return, that they like, and have had the opportunity to read other works on the Vuelta. I would invite you to read it above all because it is a reading that can be complementary to other works that you have read and from that point of view it can be a subject to awaken a spirit from the critical point of view. In the end, the text does not seek to be a universal truth, but in this search for contexts I am aware that at certain times it may have been perceived by primary, secondary actors or transmitted by them in a somewhat different way than what is collected in these lines. The same would invite all fans of cycling and the return with reading concerns about these themes to have the opportunity to read it and of course invite them to share their impressions by the digenstent channels where they can find me. Enchanted to learn more opinions, because they fit all are welcome.
“The return was born in 1935, but since 1913 there are attempts to launch a return to Spain and in those pioneers Pioneros Mundo Deportivo is a capital medium through the figure of Narciso Masferrer”
Broadly speaking, what especially of the book?
It is complicated, because the history of the Vuelta is very rich in singularities and beyond the sports evolution itself, which in that is very similar within its geographical participants and nomenclatures and others, the story of the return is delicious. I always occasion, and whenever I have had the opportunity to do it, I have been very close to highlight the prehistories, because the return was born in 1935 but since 1913 there are attempts to launch a return to Spain and in those pioneer contains Mundo Deportiv The race is very active, but to cheer up the cotarro and that the flame will not go out. From this point of view, some proposals to launch the return had Barcelona as an axis, both at the beginning and at the end. It is one of the parts of the prehistory that I understand that it can be interesting. In the book we have also tried to make an approach of how the geographical evolution of the race has been.
“There has always been a mantra, at the time that I grew up and began to grow, that moved between lament and frustration, and without critical, that in Spain there were no Alps or Pyrenees”
Where the mountain has always had its prominence.
There has always been a mantra, at the time that I grew up and began to grow, that moved between lament and frustration, and without critical encouragement, that in Spain there were no Alps or Pyrenees. A little that we do not have the Tour ports. This is true from a geographical point of view, but from a point of view of orographic particularity we can clarify it, because even today, increases that have a lot of interest are being discovered. Not all have been paved in the last 15 years. There are much older mountain ports that in fact continue virgins for the race and that offer very important possibilities, not to host ends, which seems to be a bit of the idea of a new-final port, we talk about a more classic idea of conception of cycling itinerary, mix of several climbs, a chained in a major mileage that allows us to talk about a sport of background and resistance management, which in the background is a little. At least in its origins.
Unable to bike
Juanfran de la Cruz suffers a pinching in the lower part of the elbow that unfortunately for him prevents him from riding a bike, but that for the benefit of journalism does let him write. “A reason why I left the bike, I have been two years without mounting, yes that HW left promptly with the mountain, but the thing does not work, because because of overloads on human I bother my wrist with the carpian, I was complicated because I have a kind of nerve pinion in the inner area of the whole. The problem is there and this is a very rude numbness, I could not stop and I could not stop and I park the bike “
But the return has always sought its uniqueness and now enjoys its own DNA that identifies it.
It is true that now we are in another state, it is true that the return on its current dates also its proposal and is another and that this model has been modified, but at the same time with this modification of the model with respect to the most classic canons the return has found a more own model that has allowed it to reinforce its own image, position itself in the universe of the great three, of the international cycling calendar and, of course, this without less than the modification of the change of dates, that for me is absolutely a capital moment in the history of the race. The move that the return already turns on in the 1995 edition, which is also talked about in the book is basic. I do not know where the return of continuing in spring would be, but what I am clear is that with the change of August-September the return has hit an absolutely capital evolution. The mere fact of change of date allowed to bury an economic crisis that in spring would have been entirely harmful. What is a fact is that the change of dates has been absolutely beneficial for the return.
“Peio Ruiz Cabestany gave me a spark for the approach. In a brief way he came to say in a social network that the tour was the story, that the turn was passion and the return after some suspensive points was endearing. It seemed like a very successful label”
What else wants to add?
The book, as you know, belongs to a collection, with works linked to the turn and the tour, and this work as it is linked has also been some coherent in the subject of the degree, but when the possibility of moving forward with the work had another title linked to a few words of Peio Ruiz Cabestany, he gave me a spark for the approach. In a brief way he came to say in a social network that the tour was the story, that the turn was passion and the return after some suspensive points was endearing. It seemed like a very successful label, and as an endearing title, although it is not very sports, it seemed very timely and very interesting for the type of content I wanted to develop.
Did you have to cut many pages of the manuscript originates to the one I now have in my hands?
In the original project I sent as 900 pages, because in the end it is a job of years, the return is a personal restlessness and I have always been pending and it seemed to me that there could be many topics to play. And since that original work there have been many issues that are ready to be able to feed future adventures. In the end, the return is 90 years, 80 editions in August, it is a very rich event in stories, and allows you to develop multiple context approaches, and with that desire that you may like and connect with people, because once you give them something, they are the ones that have to value it.
