Oscar Freire’s mystery
The excicist Óscar Freire (48), a tricampeón of the road world, generated yesterday an alarm state by remaining disappeared since last Monday. The Cantabrian would have abandoned his home voluntarily after a family discussion and since then remained in an unknown whereabouts. He left with nothing. Neither keys, neither wallet nor credit or mobile cards. His vehicle had also been found, which shot the alarms even more.
The enormous concern led his family to file a complaint for disappearance before the Civil Guard of Cantabria’s units to begin his search as soon as possible. The wife pointed to the agents who left voluntarily and that it is not the first time that she leaves her documentation at home, although not having news of him in the last 48 hours, she decided to report it. Hours after the Benemérita began the investigations, family sources confirmed that it had been located and was in good condition. His environment, as indicated by the newspaper AS, considers that it is a private issue and that “it should never have transcended the media”, without wanting to give more information about everything that happened.
It was the Montañés newspaper, a newspaper who also reported his unknown whereabouts, who announced that he had been located. At the close of this edition some sources, such as the Montañés newspaper, indicated that he was already at home and others somewhere in Spain to be determined. Meanwhile, the former former brother assured Mark that Oscar was well and that he would return home soon. However, the complaint of the disappearance before the Civil Guard had not been withdrawn.
The formerclist would have voluntarily abandoned his home, without keys or wallet
The formerclist was invited last week at the Tour Al-Ural for the organization. At the conclusion of the contest, last Monday he returned to his home where he remained with his wife and three children. His son Marcos, who is also a cyclist, has been running in Castelló and Mallorca Challenge and last Monday he also returned to the family home.
In recent months, Freire’s name returned to the current Spanish cycling precisely because of the jump to the professionalism of his son Marcos, who is part of the UAE subsidiary, the Z Gen. Both have been able to train together during this month during this month January in several videos uploaded to the Instagram social network.
After hours of investigations some sources indicated that it was already located and others that was still missing
It was also news for a somewhat unpleasant disagreement with the president of the Spanish Cycling Federation, José Vicioso. The Cantabrian publicly denounced that Vicioso had assured him the position of national coach just before he left on vacation. The position would finally be for Murcia Alejandro Valverde. According to the manager, there was a “misunderstanding”, but the decision deeply outraged Freire.
“It has been a disappointment. We all left happy with a meeting we had in Madrid. It is not any misunderstanding, there was a lack of word, professionalism and everything. He did not face, nor did he call to explain it, ”he said then.
Born in Torrelavega in 1976, Freire was a professional cyclist from 1998 to 2012, when he decided to retire. Freire’s career is plague of successes. He uncovered the world of cycling in 1999, only one year after jumping to professionalism, with the victory in the World Cup held in Verona. He would repeat triumph in 2001 and 2004. No one has managed to overcome that figure to date.
Fast and intelligent corridor to find the moment of career to move and attack, Freire was a regular of the spring classics. He came to conquer the Milan-Sanremo in the years 2004, 2007 and 2010 and has ever achieved triumphs achieved by Spanish corridors, such as the turn of the province of Lucca (2003), the brabanzona arrow (2005, 2006, 2007), the Vattenfall Cyclassics (2006), the Ghent-Wevelgem (2008), the green jersey of the Tour de France (2008) and the Paris-Tours (2010).
After his retirement he has been able to continue in the media thanks to his collaborations with the COPE chain and other media