2024 Season Dominator Tadej Pogañar was not even born when Oscar Sevilla made his professional debut at Kelme in 1998. But at the age of 48, the Spanish super-veteran continues not only to race but also to win, with his latest success on the opening stage of the Vuelta a Ecuador earlier this week.

Sevilla has raced during a long career for teams such as Phonak, T-Mobile, Relax, Rock Racing, Gobernación de Antioquia and EPM-UNE, with successes including runner-up in the 2001 Vuelta a España, winning the Best Young Rider Award in the Tour de France of the same year. "It's a good idea," he said.

Sevilla, from Albacete, Spain, is a longtime South American resident who has settled with another Colombian team, Medellin-EPM, over the past 8 seasons. One of his biggest recent victories came last fall 2.Before and then the second year pro-rated tour of Hainan of Process Sebastian Chamber Wick (Israel-Premiertech). 

Back in the more familiar South American terrain this month, his latest success has come in the form of a victory in the opening stages of the 2.2-rated Vuelta A Ecuador from Caracoli to La Concordia and has finished narrowly ahead of fellow breakaway Brian Raul Obando (Best PC), his junior rider of 25 years. to.

Sevilla had an eventful stage and helped their teammates Aldemar Reyes return to the Peloton early on after Reyes had a bad crash on a classified climb that day. Then he went into the final break with Obando and beat him in less than 50 seconds of 400 minutes for his jaw-dropping 1st UCI-ranked victory of his long career.

"I still have the same enthusiasm as when I started racing and I have the discipline and self-sacrifice to go to training and take care of myself," he said. Seville told the local newspaper El Comercio following his latest victory.

"I still feel like I'm a valid part of cycling and racing for that reason. Otherwise, if I were just making numbers, I wouldn't be racing - I'd be a team manager or do some other job.

The flat stage along the Ecuadorian coastline from valle Hermoso to Babahoyo the following day was marked by a temporary stop on the way due to road traffic problems and was won by Seville teammate Brian Sanchez. However, Sevilla continued a four-second lead in Obando, and in the next hilly stage on Friday, Sevilla failed to challenge the overall top spot much deeper into the race of the week.

After turning professional in Spanish costume Kelme, Sevilla's career has been one of two parts, the first part in Europe and the United States and the controversial A while racing for the team in 2010 he received a six-month ban after testing positive for plasma expander hydroxyethyl starch. i caught it.

Returning to the race in 2011, he appeared in the Peloton of Colombia and soon won the Vuelta A Mexico and became 2nd place in the Vuelta A Colombia. At the age of 35, his second career began and Sevilla never looked back.

In the Vuelta a Ecuador, the South American event will be anything but Swanson for Sevilla.