{"id":7602,"date":"2018-06-12T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/presentacion-la-purito-andorra-2018-andbank\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:01:26","slug":"presentacion-la-purito-andorra-2018-andbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/presentacion-la-purito-andorra-2018-andbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of La Purito Andorra 2018 Andbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The number of registrations has risen to 2,500.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cyclist Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez presents the 4<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the La Purito Andorra cycling tour in the Andbank offices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The catering point at the legendary Coll de la Gallina will offer exquisite \u201cpuritos\u201d of chocolate to recover strength after the demanding climb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Escaldes-Engordany, 12 June 2018<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Business Andbank Centre today welcomed the official presentation of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the cycling tour La Purito Andorra 2018. The event was hosted by the Deputy General Director of Andbank Banca Pa\u00eds Josep M. Cabanes, the President of Sprint Club Andorra, Emili P\u00e9rez, and the ex-professional cyclist who gives his name to the tour, Joaquim \u201c<em>Purito<\/em>\u201d Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The presentation was opened by Josep M. Cabanes, who thanked Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez for his unconditional support of Andorran cycling, as well as his commitment to the country by encouraging the organisation of this demanding tour that has great media impact, and has been a success since its first edition. He pointed out, \u201cIt\u2019s an event that attracts a large public and that can only be good for the country.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Then, a video was shown, summarising the last edition of the tour including the experiences of some of the participants.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Emili P\u00e9rez followed, explaining all the technical and organisational aspects of the tour, which can be found on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapurito.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lapurito.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez expressed his thanks for the sponsors: Andorra Turisme, Andbank, Com\u00fa of Sant Juli\u00e0 de L\u00f2ria, Com\u00fa of Encamp and E. Leclerc, and all the collaborators and friends who are supporting this fourth edition of La Purito Andorra. This year, for the first time, the Art i Pa Bakery has prepared some exquisite chocolate \u201cpuritos\u201d to be handed out at the catering point at the Coll de la Gallina.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He also told us about the big surprise of the tour: <strong>Carlos Sastre<\/strong> is the guest for this edition. The Spanish cyclist was a professional from 1997 to 2011 and among his many victories he stands out for having held first place in the general classification of the Tour de France ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Other well known sportspeople have also announced their participation in the tour, like the motorcyclists Toni Bou and Carlos Checa, the ex-professional cyclists Joseba Beloki, Angel Vicioso, Angel Edo and Josep Jufr\u00e9, as well as Jos\u00e9 Antonio Hermida and Gerard Morales (Spanish ultradistance champion). It will be a pleasure once again to have the participation of Sandra Santanyes, 12 times Spanish champion. All of these have promised to be alongside Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez on 5 August.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>La Purito started life four years ago as one of the toughest tours in Europe and has become a great reference point among cycle tour riders because of the beauty of its scenery and the demands that it makes of the riders. This is a tour open to traffic with two timed stages in which the participants can know their times in the ascent to the legendary Coll de la Gallina and the Cortals d\u2019Encamp.<\/p>\n<p>Once again children aged between 5 and 12 will be able to participate in La Purito Kids on Saturday 4 August, in a race on a circuit closed to traffic in Encamp. With this, Joaquim \u201c<em>Purito<\/em>\u201d Rodr\u00edguez confirms his support for the base of the sport of cycling.<\/p>\n<p>The registration period reached the limit of 2,000 places weeks ago, but due to the great demand it has been extended to 2,500. As of today\u2019s date registrations are still open on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapurito.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lapurito.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can follow all the information on Twitter @lapuritoandorra and Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lapurito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/lapurito<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of registrations has risen to 2,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2632,2629,2627,2647,2643,2290,2634,2645,163,2641,2649,2633,2630,2631,2628,2626,2646,2642,2640,2644],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andbank.com\/andorra\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}