Landa takes over as president of Euskadi Cycling Foundation

Mikel Landa (Team Sky) has officially taken over as president of the Euskadi Cycling Foundation from its longstanding director Miguel Madariaga, who began the project 25 years ago with the aim, then and now, of educating young Basque riders about their sport.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.