Those nostalgic for the 2000s had to pinch themselves to believe it. Paco Mancebo is still running. Caught in the Puerto affair and excluded the day before the start of the 2006 Tour de France when he was to take part with the Savoyard team AG2R Prévoyance, the Spaniard announced his intention to retire.
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But Mancebo returned to the peloton at the start of 2007 in a continental team and the Madrilenian has been playing in teams at this level ever since. In 2025, he begins his seventh year with the Japanese Matrix Powertag team,
Engaged in the Tour du Sahel, Mancebo added this Wednesday, January 22, a line to his list of achievements which notably includes a stage of the Vuelta in 2005, two victories in the general classification of the Tour of Castile and Leon (2000 and 2003) and a success in the Classic of the Alps (2003).
He became the oldest rider to win a UCI race after sprinting past a group of three riders to win. A status that he should maintain for a long time.
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