One of the modern pioneers of women's racing, Joane Somarriba's remarkable career saw the Spanish racer standing on the top step of the podium with victories at the esteemed Grand Boucle, Giro d'Italia, Emakumeen Bira and the World Championships during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
At 52, she is now an ambassador of her nation's only second-tier ProTeam, Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi, and for women's cycling as a whole. She will join the squad at the upcoming La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es from May 4 to 10, not only to support her riders in the first Grand Tour of this season, but to take in the atmosphere and success of a home race she more than likely would have won had it existed during her own rise to stage-racing stardom.
