Pello Bilbao has completed the best Tour de France of his career. The veteran Bahrain - Victorious rider was very well prepared because the first stages started from the Basque Country and he completed a dream Grande Boucle finishing sixth overall and winning a stage.
He remembered Gino Mäder talking to RTVE: "We have to be aware of what we have done, 3 very special victories with the most special of the dedication." He commented that he is now going to race the Klasikoa and then it's time to rest, as he has spent the first part of the year preparing for the Tour. "I'm going to do the San Sebastian classic and then rest. It's been intense months preparing, I knew it was a unique opportunity to do well in the Tour and we've done it, now vacation after the Classic."
About the initiative that Gino Mäder started and that he now completes by creating a forest in Gernika, he comments that it will continue:
"It is one hundred percent complete, everything that can be contributed from there, surely it will be great for another project. Let it have continuity, take the example of Gino to give visibility to problems that are often not present in the sport."