ISAAC GALVEZ – CYCLING’S SADDEST STORY
21.03.2017 by Hannah Troop “Every year by the last weekend of November I lose my traditional smile and my eyes turn sad while trying to retain the tears from rolling down.” When we received this email late last year from our close friend Sergi Florenciano, we knew that we had to write a story about it. As you continue to read you can feel the eyes start to sting and vision blur slightly. Sergi wrote to us about his fallen comrade, his partner in crime–Issac Galvez. Emotion pours onto the page detailing this tragic narrative, about the lottery that is professional bike racing. “He [Issac] got his second World Track championship, again with his beloved [teammate] Joan Llaneras…they were called to be the next Olympic Champions on Madison, the Kings of the velodrome. So by the fall of 2006 both Isaac and Llaneras put all their energy into the track season.” “They took a break on the first weekend of November to go back home; Isaac got married, we were overjoyed that day....