• Chronicle.Javalambre raises Madrazo and punishes Quintana
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Ángel Madrazo , excited and radiant, dedicated his victory in Javalambre, the most important of his entire sports career, to his wife, María . Well, until there everything normal. What is not normal is what came next: «She is the one who gives me the sticks, it is very different from me. I like sports and she doesn't; to her to read and not to me, I am more of video games. I'm always arguing with her to see if she buys me the Play Station 4, but there's no way. Between the kid and I will put pressure, we are two against one, to see if we convince her. Now it's on sale, I think 295 ».

All that is Madrazo is in those phrases that filled with laughter the press room of Javalambre.

There is the prankster Angel, who in December 2016 appeared at the French Delko Marseille saying something like: «Hello, I am Angel Madrazo, as you can see I am the most handsome of the platoon, I earn many millions of euros thanks to my image ». His translator - he didn't speak French - was dying of laughter.

There is the animating Angel, who every day before a stage, is dedicated to motivating his teammates and dancing to promote the good atmosphere and relax tension. Or the one that starts to imitate the sound of a Formula 1 with such precision that it is even capable of simulating the pit entry and the change of wheels.

There is the familiar Angel, who, jokes, constantly repeats that what he does every day on a bicycle is to play his children's food, the reason why he left Marseille last winter and signed for Burgos BH.

There is the sentimental Angel, the one who cried to the seas after winning in Javalambre , the one who, on a less favorable day, reached the finish line begging for a hug from one of his auxiliaries after suffering a fall that left him without triumph.

All that and much more is Ángel Madrazo, the Cazoña Sparrow - a nickname he inherited from his father, whom his friends called the Eagle , in honor of Bahamontes -, the man who made history by giving the modest Burgos BH his first victory in the return.

It was a memorable and strange triumph in turn, as he is, after his own team car hit him during the stage : «He was like in the San Fermín confinements, in the square. When the car came to me I said: 'Go horned'. But I thought that God was with me, that if I had not dropped my car something big could happen. 'This is put to egg and I can't fail,' I told myself.

The escape that formed with his partner Jetse Bol and José Herrada managed to avoid the hunt for the platoon and dispute the stage. The rhythm in Javalambre was marked by that of Cofidis and Bol followed, but Madrazo went to his own, by hand, appearing and disappearing from the plane, yielding tens of meters and recovering them later. He reached them in the last kilometer and pressed to get points for the mountain jersey that you saw from day one. They caught on goal, but he thought the step was prior. The fact is that Herrada burst with his acceleration and served him in a victory tray that, Maria, well deserves a Play.

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