Considering that we are part of a sleeping society, it is gratifying to see how there are still people who mobilize for a cause and successfully torpedoes a top-level sporting competition like the Vuelta. Not all is lost. Using critical thinking, protesting, and demonstrating have become concepts vintage, because we have been reduced to what the system wants: to be instruments of consumption of products and ideas at its service. That's why we can sit in a crowded cove while we do scroll between a possible Barça signing, a discounted shirt, and a cadaverous child dying of hunger in the Gaza Strip. Unperturbed, we raised our gaze and asked the couple: "What would you rather eat? Fideuá or paella?" We have the capacity for indignation of a tender Jewish woman.

It won't be easy getting on the UAE team bus these days at the Vuelta a Espana. The fragile relationship between the team's stars exploded in the middle of the competition, prompting team management to publicly punish Spaniard Juan Ayuso. The young rider from Alicante, currently the biggest star of Spanish cycling, has counterattacked, stating that he lives in "a dictatorship" where "they want to damage" his "image." The final days of competition could be complicated within the Emirates-based team.