Drama in cycling: Massi Baix Ter, the team in which Paula Blasi and Mireia Benito were formed, disappears, “no one has ended up putting up the money”
Every beginning has an end, but when the film began to roll Massi Baix Ter cycling team It didn’t seem like the adventure was going to last only eight seasons.
After establishing itself in the Spanish cycling peloton and being the reference for all aspiring road cyclists, the Empordà team has decided to cease its activity, due to the precarious economic situation they were going through. This has been communicated by the team itself. Both the professional team and the Massi Baix Ter Women’s Teamsuch as training, Baix Ter Women’s Academy. With this dissolution, Catalan women’s cycling is left without a pioneering and benchmark club, which always aimed to help serve as a springboard for athletes who were finishing their training and wanted to become professional.
The cyclists were informed in time so that they could reorient their race and find accommodation in another structure, after which those in charge will try to find a solution even under the stones, as Sergi Güell, president of Massi Baix Ter, explains to MD. “There have been an accumulation of situations. We created a team to compete at an international level, but each year our budget went down and costs went up. We went to the races with one hand in front and one behind and thus we could not compete at a media and sporting level.”
We created a team to compete internationally, but each year our budget went down and costs went up. We went to the races with one hand in front and one behind and thus we could not compete on a media and sporting level.
president of Massi Baix Ter
The Catalan structure, which was active in the national category after the 2024 relegation and which had a budget of about 95,000 euros, had 11 cyclists in the first team and 15 in the second. Güell acknowledges that “if we balanced it we could continue for one more season, but we don’t want to continue like this. We couldn’t live just on hugs and no one has ended up putting up the money. The Administration has always done its utmost. The Girona Provincial Council has always helped us. The Generalitat of Catalonia It has always been more unstable. They have always helped us more or less and it is clear that we always want more, but the private sector has never been able to enter.” Its president confides that despite the sad news, “let’s see if instead of a full stop it’s a full stop.”
Throughout its eight seasons, more than 16 riders who have passed through Massi have made the jump to World Tour teams, among them the Catalans. Mireia Benito and Paula Blasi.
