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EFE · Road Competition · 10/27/2020
Canadian Michael Woods (Education First) continued in Villanueva de Valdegova his idyll with La Vuelta, a race in which he has achieved two of his most important victories, and with the Basque Country, where he won in 2018 the remembered stage in the vertical ascent to the Mount Oiz.
Then, Wodds (Ottawa, 12-09-1986) lived a day of mixed feelings due to the triumph and the family tragedies that he had just experienced.
The North American climber burst into tears at the finish line remembering his wife and his son “Hunter” who was not born because his wife lost him when “she was 37 weeks pregnant.” To this misfortune had been added then, “a month” ago, the death of his father-in-law.
Woods touched everyone and won everyone’s affection with his spontaneous and sincere emotion. Especially from a Basque hobby that follows and loves cycling like few others, although in this Return to Spain Like everyone else, he has had to stay home due to the damn Covid-19, and to which he was very grateful for the support received.
“It’s very hard not to get excited when your name is called out like that,” he said then, almost stunned by the fact that fans were cheering on a semi-unknown by name. A late ex-athlete and runner who made it to elite cycling in his late thirties.
“I really like to run for his hobby,” he said, still imbued with emotion at his recent triumph and the memories of his close people who crowded him.
Today in Valdegova, after stealing the stage from local Omar Fraile, a ‘killer’ in the breaks, Woods was already a calmer and less affected staff. Although with the same affection and gratitude of two years ago to the fans, still unable to hear them this time. “I really like to race and win here,” he said, maintaining his love affair with La Vuelta and the Basque fans.
Ramn Orosa
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