MADRID, January 31, 2024 - The world of journalism, culture and sport, more specifically cycling, suffered a great loss on January 24, 2024, the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales, patron saint of writers and journalists. Ángel María de Pablos, the great voice of cycling on Spanish Television, who later gave way to Pedro González and Carlos de Andrés, died in his native Valladolid at the age of 81 as a result of a series of complications following a hip surgery.

PILLAR OF SPORTS JOURNALISM  As a member of the Sports Press Association of Valladolid, he created the Federation of Sports Press Associations of Castilla y León, which he headed for twelve years and which carried out the organisation of the provincial sports galas as well as the assembly and coordination of the Regional Sports Gala. He was one of the pillars of the new AEPD in the Castilian-Leonese Community. His opinion, always coherent and considered, helped a lot in congresses and meetings of the Spanish Sports Press Association.

UNIQUE STYLE Journalist, poet and writer, Ángel María de Pablos became popular on television at the head of cycling broadcasts in the eighties. TVE turned to him to provide the voice for the first years of the broadcasts of the final stages of the Vuelta a España, between 1983 and 1988, accompanied by Emilio Tamargo, Ramón Pizarro and Rafael Recio. His unique style made many cycling fans since he not only narrated the development of the race, but also completed his comments using his extensive cultural heritage with historical, cultural, literary and landscape descriptions of the places where the multicolored snake passed. .

BEGINNINGS Because, first of all, he was a poet since he was a child when he began to write with the help of his father, the journalist, essayist and poet Ángel de Pablos Chapado (1911-1983). It was precisely his father who enrolled him in El Norte de Castilla when he was only 14 years old, the beginning of a journalistic career recognized by the profession in 2020 with the delivery of the Francisco de Cossío Award for Lifetime Achievement, an award convened every year by the Junta de Castilla and Lion. Almost three decades ago he was part of the founding editorial team of the newspaper El Mundo de Valladolid, of which he was head of Sports and Culture.

AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS BOOKS He was an excellent poet, as evidenced by the numerous books he published, including 'The Children of the Trash Can and Other Laments' (2002), with a view that he frequently projected towards the most helpless, the fruit of a Christian and supportive sense that he also displayed as a brother. for decades, of the 7 Palabras brotherhood during Holy Week in Valladolid. Precisely Ángel María de Pablos was the preacher of the last Holy Week in Valladolid.

In addition to poetry, he contributed titles to the theater such as 'La fontana' (2007), about the last days of Antonio Machado, and was even involved in managerial functions at the head, among other cultural institutions, of the Ateneo de Valladolid and the Association of Friends of the Theater of Valladolid.
 
LOVE FOR CYCLING But he loved cycling so much to the point of having experiences as a sports leader. He became vice president of the Spanish Federation, president of the territorial one in Valladolid and director of the International Cycling Union (UCI). About this sport, he wrote several reference books and documentary such as 'History of the Vuelta Ciclista a España' (1985 ) and '110 years of cycling in Valladolid' (1994).