MADRID, 22 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first edition of La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es, which will take place between the 1st and 7th of May, will start from the Alicante town of Torrevieja, as it became official this Wednesday.
Unipublic, organizer of the race, had already confirmed a few days ago that the start would be on the Costa Blanca and it was this Wednesday when the place was announced during an act in the Gala Dining Room of the Superior Sports Council (CSD) with the presence of its president, José Manuel Franco, and Bárbara Fuertes, deputy general director of Women and Sport of the CSD, Eduardo Dolón, mayor of Torrevieja, Diana Box, councilor for sports of Torrevieja, Raúl Uría, head of sponsorships for Carrefour, and Javier Guillén, general director of Unipublic, as well as excicista Dori Ruano, who will be the ambassador of the event.
“It is a source of pride that the Costa Blanca and Torrevieja are once again committed to top-level cycling, as they already did with the start of La Vuelta in 2019,” celebrated Javier Guillén, who remarked that they have worked on the La Vuelta Femenina project “with great care and enthusiasm from essential partners such as the CSD, Carrefour and all the venues and sponsors that will make this first edition possible”.
For the manager, if Spain is the setting for “one of the three most important races in men’s cycling, it is essential to also have one of the three largest in women’s cycling”. “La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es is born and grows with a new identity and with its own strength. We are anxious to announce the complete route next week”, he completed in relation to the presentation of the route on February 28 at a gala that will have place in the Torrevieja International Music Conservatory Auditorium.
“At the Torrevieja City Council we are very happy to once again have this synergy that is so satisfactory for us with La Vuelta. What has motivated us the most to be united with the event again is the promotion of women’s sports. We have had level events such as the World Cup of Handball and we wanted to be present in this first edition of La Vuelta Femenina”, warned Eduardo Dolón, mayor of the Alicante town.
The mayor gave “thanks to the Provincial Council of Alicante” for their help so that they have managed to “return to being the start of the great Spanish tour”. “We are motivated to make a different start. We will have a background image of Las Salinas (where La Vuelta came from in 2019), but we are going to give a lot of presence to the sports city, which is one of the most important in the south,” he explained. he.
“We want to link cycling and La Vuelta. We are very happy and grateful to the race for wanting to come, as we say, to their home, Torrevieja”, declared the mayor of Torrevieja
For his part, José Manuel Franco made it clear that “it is a source of enormous pride that Spain signifies itself, hand in hand with sport, as a leading country in the development and promotion of women.” “And it is that the fact of hosting one of the three great cycling rounds, with an event that this year gains its own space within the international calendar, reinforces the importance that the sport practiced by women already has in our country”, he pointed out.
“In this sense, I must highlight the commitment of public institutions, Unipublic and Carrefour, which this year has joined the ‘Universo Mujer’ program to support La Vuelta Femenina,” added the leader, who recalled that in the CSD they is proud “especially to add supports of this type”.
The president of the CSD insisted that “the public policies that this Government of Spain is promoting in favor of equality have a greater impact when they are accompanied by the support and initiative of the private sector.” “Your collaboration allows us to move faster in building a better future for the women and girls of our country,” he said.