Óscar Sevilla, victim of a robbery in Bogotá

The Spanish cyclist Oscar Sevillawho since 2012 has had dual Spanish-Colombian nationality, He was the victim of an armed robbery while training in Colombiathe country in which he lives, as he himself reported on social networks in the last few hours.

The Team Medellín EPM rider, 49 years old, He suffered the theft of his mobile phone, but no physical damagein an event that occurred in Bogotá, the city where he resides, on the North Highway, at Calle 170.

The cyclist born in Ossa de Montiel (Albacete) reported on his X account that this Monday he went out to train early in the morning when he was “intercepted by a high-displacement motorcycle” and threatened “with a firearm.”

“They couldn’t steal my bicycle, but they could steal my cell phone“commented Sevilla, who criticized that, after reporting the incident to a patrol that was passing through the area, they told him “that they couldn’t do anything.”

His Continental team had also expressed in its official account its “rejection” of “these events that affect not only Oscar, but all citizens.”

“Two armed men, on a motorcycle, intimidated him to take his cell phone. Fortunately, Óscar is fine,” the squad detailed.

The cyclist had been the victim of a violent event in 2018, in which five robbers broke his arm, in addition to stealing his bicycle and cell phone early in the morning on a day when he had gone out to train.

A professional since 1998 and best young person in the Tour de France in 2001, Sevilla was second in the Vuelta a España that year as a rider for Kelme, a team in which he played until 2003.

In 2006 his name was linked to the so-called ‘Operation Puerto’, as part of a network that marketed and used illegal drugs to improve performance, under the advice of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

This scandal caused his team at the time, the German T-Mobile, to expel him, although he was never tried by Spain. From that moment, Sevilla reconsidered his career and new horizons took him to America.

In 2008, as a cyclist for the American Rock Racing, he won the Clásico RCN in Colombia. On that occasion he met the love of his life, Ivonne Agudelo, who became his wife and with whom he has two daughters, Luna and Mía, and he never left that country again.