Eguibar defends world gold this Wednesday instead of Friday due to bad weather

Lucas Eguibarworld champion of snowboarding boardercrosswill defend his title this Wednesday -instead of Friday as planned- in Bakuriani (Georgia), where the expected bad weather has forced the test to be brought forward two days, as explained, in a telephone conversation with EFE from the aforementioned Georgian station, the interested party himself, who won the intercontinental gold two years ago in Idre Fjäll (Sweden). .

“They have advanced us the race, due to the time, since they give very bad meteorological conditions for Friday. It is very windy and they say that it is going to worsen the next days”, commented eguibar, born 29 years ago in San Sebastián and who apart from the gold from two years ago, won two silvers in 2017 (individual and by teams) in the Sierra Nevada World Cups (Grenade).

“The test was scheduled for the 3rd and now it is the 1st, that is to say tomorrow,” said ‘Luki’ from the Georgian station of Bakuriani.

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“Today we did the training; then they told us that qualifying, which was going to be on Thursday, would still be tomorrow. And finally they told us that they were going to do the race directly tomorrow,” said the Gipuzkoan champion from Georgia, also winner of the 2014-15 World Cup and standard-bearer for Spain at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games (South Korea).

“So you have to adapt as quickly as possible and go out there and give a lot of cane,” added Eguibar.