On of them hails from Venezuela, the other one from Euskal Herria, they both ride for Basque team Euskaltel, at today's stage they pulled the 1-2 at the Tour of Spain.
Here you have the note from Yahoo News:
Here you have the note from Yahoo News:
Venezuelan leads an Etxebarria 1-2 in Tour of Spain
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BURGOS, Spain (AFP) - Venezuelan rider Unai Etxebarria of the Euskaltel team won the fourth stage of the Tour of Spain, a 151km ride from Santander.
Spaniard Isidro Nozal grabbed the overall race lead on Tuesday from ONCE teammate Joaquin Rodriguez.
Etxebarria crossed the line on his own, beating a seven-man breakaway, headed by teammate and namesake David Etxebarria, by 44 seconds.
Colombian Felix Cardenas, who has the best climber jersey, came third with the main bunch headed by German sprint ace Erik Zabel about a minute and a half behind the winner.
Nozal made the most of being in the breakaway group to take the overall lead by 50 seconds.
A first and third-category climb about 90 kilmetres from the line allowed the riders to make their bid. The main group came within a minute of the leaders with about 50km to go but could not close the gap.
Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi made it known to his Fassa Bortolo team-mates that he did not have enough strength in his legs to challenge for the stage win and they gave up the chase.
With 19km to go, Unai Etxebarria attacked moments after David Etxebarria had also attacked, and none of the other riders reacted in time.
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