"I've always been very competitive, maybe too much so. So what's happened to me lately has been tough. It felt like it was the end of my career," explains Josep Betalú (Amposta, 1977), one of the biggest names in Catalan cycling. This mechanic, who knows how to do whatever it takes with his hands, has had his fill of winning races on four different continents since making the jump to mountain biking at the age of 30, in 2010. Before that, he had also done road cycling, in addition to a thousand other jobs, outside of DJing or fixing cars. Thanks to cycling, he has traveled the world and spent time in Costa Rica, where he is famous. "There, people looked at me with their eyes wide open, because I am the way I come from and I say what I think," he says.