#Pellos

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Ewa Pello

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Yesterday Basque cyclist Pello Bilbao won the latest stage of the Tour de France.

Of course, not without controversy.

Tour's organization announced it on Twitter like this:

Yes, it says long live Spain.

Later they tweeted a Spanish flag...

... that was later changed to a Basque flag, and drama started on Spanish social media.

Pello Bilbao has publicly shown his support for Basques' right to choose whether we want to be a region of Spain or independent, consider himself Basque, and almost surely somebody of his team asked the organization to change the flag.

But don't clap for France just yet, because the country has a long history of being hypocritical: if Pello Bilbao was from Iparralde instead, would they have changed the French flag for the ikurriña? 🙄

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Have my very kind boi Flynn

hes SO kind!!! look!!! he brought flowers!!!

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give me montreal podium pics wtf that was a sexy ass podium inject it!!!

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Ewa Pello Closer 2011

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Pello dnf too :'(

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Photo: ASO/Pauline Ballet

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From the Festivál album, a song guaranteed to get your body moving, from Carlos Santana and the boys, augmented by the Tower of Power Horns.

This is a particularly sweet spot in the Santana discography, following his years in the spiritual jazz-rock realms that began with Caravanserai and continued through his time with his then-guru Sri Chinmoy. The band's release of Amigos, followed by Festivál, saw Carlos embrace actual tunes and danceable rhythms. And here, the Santana machine is in top form, featuring the great Jose "Chepito" Areas on the timbales and Raul Rekow on the congas, with Graham Lear (d) and Pablo Tellez (b). One of the best of the Santana bands.

Here is the original as written and popularized by the Cuban composer and percussionist Pello el Afrokán, born Pedro Izquierdo Padrón, who also developed the "Mozambique" rhythm called out in the lyrics.

Some background here on Pello:

And for the hispanohablantes among you, this documentary on the composer and percussionist:

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a monster

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Pello’s return???

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Tour de France 2023 - Act 2 - Puy de Dome dominating almost a week on

The Tadej Pogacar fight back is well and truly on in this Tour de France. After we left the race in Cauterets in last weeks post, Pog suddenly reignited his bid for the yellow jersey culminating in that epic stage finish to Puy de Dome last Sunday. It was a brilliant stage with Matteo Jorgensen getting caught in the last km by Canadian Mike Woods, who took the stage win. Behind them the top 2…