The lap reduces the tour of the Crono de Valladolid for fear of protests
The organization of the Vuelta has decided to reduce by 15 kilometers the route of the stage that Valladolid will travel in the day of Crono that was planned. In a statement, they have indicated that “with the aim of providing greater protection to the development of the stage” it has been decided that the test is carried out “dispute on a 12.2 kilometers route maintaining the output and the goal initially planned.”
The decision, explained the return, is done in collaboration with the City of Valladolid and after consulting it with the College of Commissioners. The tour will start in the Zorrilla Square and will end on the Zorrilla promenade, very close to the exit ramp. During the test they were summoned citizen protests in support of Palestine for the genocide that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza. From the solidarity platform with Palestine in Valladolid they have insisted on the peaceful character of the protests that has been convened for the test.
The presence of an Israeli team, —israel-premier tech— Linked to Benjamín Netanyahuhas led to concentrations during the tour of the return to its passage through the different municipalities. This same Wednesday, the CPA (International Association of Professional Cyclists), the majority union of runners, agreed in the last stage of the lap that will stop the day on Wednesday if they see their safety at risk. According to Eurosport, the 23 teams present in the race voted and decided to continue, but as the safeguard of stopping the competition if there are serious events that alter the race, such as those happened in Bilbao where the race had to be detained and finished three kilometers from the finish line. Several people were arrested during protests.
In Galicia, where the race has elapsed in recent days, new arrests have been added due to citizen concentrations, and on Tuesday the stage stopped eight kilometers earlier than planned by the size of the protests; And in Asturias the route was cut into a representative mountain port such as L'Angliru. This Wednesday a great graffiti with the names of Gazati children killed by Israel has received Spain in Bierzo.
The cyclist Jaume Guardeño, of the Caja Rural team, has confirmed on Wednesday that on Tuesday, the squad of the Tour of Spain threw chinches as they pass through Pontevedra during the neutralized departure of the sixteenth stage. “Good luck that the race was neutralized,” said the Valencian cyclist, who revealed that there were quite a few runners who “click.”
The Government Delegation warns of possible sanctions to those who interrupt
The Government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, has guaranteed the reinforcement of police and civil guard in Valladolid. “Those people who interrupt and put at risk the physical integrity of the participants or staff will receive the corresponding infraction bulletins,” he said.
The mayor of Valladolid, Jesús Julio Carnero, has confirmed that the security device planned for Thursday in the city will be at full performance to guarantee the celebration of the stage. Carnero has affirmed this while equating the episodes of protests and arrests that have been experienced in the return, with the genocide and murder of more than 60,000 people in Gaza by Israel. “Any act of violence is execrable, in one sense and another,” said the mayor in recent days.
We can call “cut” and “block” the return and prevent arrival at the goal in Valladolid
The Coportavoz de Podemos, Pablo Fernández, has made an active boycott, already civil disobedience “to” cut “and” block “the return and prevent the arrival at the goal in Valladolid. “It is a real shame that the return allows the image of Israel's genocide to be cleaned and that an Israeli team owned by a Zionist who makes the genocide apology competing,” he reproached the secretary of Organization of Podemos.
