Sebastian Mora He has six European golds and one world. He also achieved an Olympic diploma in Tokyo, sixth with Albert Torres in madison, but this result feels more like “a pending issue” than a success, so his challenge for the future is to get on the podium in Paris 2024. While the date of the revenge arrives, Mora rubs shoulders with the main stars of the velodromes. Without going any further, last weekend in London, where he finished runner-up in the endurance UCI Track Champions League, the Track Champions League, a galactic competition organized by Discovery with the aim of anticipating the future to attract the youngest fans, those generations that have grown up with a screen in hand, based on graphics, interactions, immersive experiences, the metaverse… A Champions, which also offers a short two-hour format, with a concentrated show. And it reaches out to gender equality, in participation and in prizes. Today’s society, tomorrow’s sport.
The 34-year-old veteran cyclist from Vila-Real led the last elimination round, but lost to Claudio Imhof, another illustrious pistard. Mora has track records and class to compete with the most famous in the ring. But once the curtain on innovation fell, his reality returned to normal. At the moment he does not have a team to dispute the route calendar. Velodromes have produced great cyclists for the road, such as Wiggins, Thomas, Ganna, Viviani, Boardman… But in Spain there is no custom. They don’t look compatible. To make matters worse, the last one where he served, the Manuela Foundation, ended with defaults. The tail of the old cycling. They are the two faces of the career of a champion like Mora, with one foot in modernity and the other in the past.
