Cyclists from all over the country took to Mérida state to witness a historic event: the Guinness certification of the fifth edition. of the Gran Fondo Collado del Cóndor (GFCDC).

One thousand cyclists from all Venezuelan states participated this Sunday, March 23rd, in the GFCDC ​​across four distances, one of which (125 km) earned Guinness certification as the race with the longest climb in the world.

Organized by Ultrabikex and streamed on its YouTube channel, a group of cyclists set off from Estanques, 425 meters above sea level, to summit the Collado del Cóndor, at 4,200 meters above sea level. It was the first of four starts scheduled for the morning, which would take place from different locations.

Over this 125 km distance, Bancamiga promoted the Bancamiga Ultrabikex Challenge, which featured professional cyclists José Rujano (2004, 2005, 2010, and 2015), José Alarcón (2023), and Edwin Becerra (2025) and the renowned amateurs Alfonso Márquez (winner of the Gran Fondo Collado del Cóndor in 2023 and 2024), Alan Noya, and Jeison Avendaño.

Through the “Bancamiga Ultrabikex Challenge,” an initiative of Alberto Camardiel, Executive Director of Marketing, Products, and Services at Bancamiga, the goal was for at least four of them to reach the finish line in under 5:15 minutes. This Sunday, the tireless efforts of these six cyclists allowed them to cross the finish line in 5:03 minutes, a record that Alarcón believes will stand for years to come.

For Camardiel, the Bancamiga Ultrabikex Challenge is a way to promote cycling in the country and to make the Collado del Cóndor Gran Fondo a benchmark for Latin American and global cycling. In addition to its Guinness certification, it opens the door for other cyclists around the world to see this achievement as a record worth breaking.

On a day with excellent weather conditions, the fifth edition of the GFCDC ​​saw Nelson Peña win the 125-kilometer race with a time of 5:12.06 seconds and Lilibeth Chacón with 5:35.32.

Two cyclists will compete in Egan Bernal’s Gran Fondo

As in previous editions, the event brought together cyclists across four distances: Mucuchíes (26 kilometers); Valle Hermoso (46 kilometers); Mérida (80 kilometers); and Estanques (125 kilometers).

One of the highlights was the participation of Olympic athlete Joselyn Brea, who reached the final of the 5,000-meter race at Paris 2024 and also left the national team proud in the 1,500-meter race.

This Sunday, Brea won the 80-kilometer race. She acknowledged that it was a very demanding race, especially in the final stretch, but that the support of the people, Bancamiga employees and volunteers at the entertainment and hydration stations along the route, and the beautiful scenery provided her with inspiration to face the final kilometers.

She expressed that her participation in the Collado del Cóndor Gran Fondo served as training while she recovers from an injury. She hopes to return to athletics in the coming weeks.

During the GFCDC, two all-expenses-paid packages to attend the Egan Bernal Cycling Gran Fondo in Colombia in November were raffled off. Participants in the 125-kilometer race, Ericka Urrea and Thomas Silveira, were awarded prizes.

For Colombian cyclist Camilo Reina, who attended the GFCDC ​​and is a partner of 2019 Tour de France champion Egan Bernal, what he experienced this Sunday in Mérida was wonderful. On his first visit to Venezuela and the region, he was able to experience the state’s beautiful landscapes and the high level of Venezuelan cycling firsthand.

He hopes that, in addition to Urrea and Silveira, many Venezuelans will compete in the Cycling Gran Fondo organized by Bernal, and that many Colombians will also compete in the Collado del Cóndor Gran Fondo next year.

With information from Bancamiga Banco Universal and Ultrabikex

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Trading of cryptocurrency platforms such as Deribit, Coinbase and Greeks.live reached a record level in February this year, according to recent reports.

The aforementioned cryptocurrency exchange platforms gave record transaction referrals in the month that just ended. Deribit, in fact, “experienced multiple trading records on its platform, with cryptocurrency options and futures trading seeing open interest surpass an all-time high of $29 billion.”

There are records of the assets of the clients of the platform at a maximum of USD 4 billion. For its part, “the company’s 24-hour volume of operations reached 12.4 billion dollars, another historical high.”

Similarly, Coinbase Institutional announced on its X account that its futures exchange in the United States reached a record amount on February 29, which it defined as “the second-best day in its history, with a notional volume traded of approximately $380 million in bitcoin and ether contracts.”

“Coinbase Derivatives is committed to fostering a fair, transparent, trustworthy and efficient market for a diverse set of participants,” they said.

The Greeks.live platform recorded a record daily volume through its platform, reaching USD 620 million in options volume.

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Joe Biden, President of the United States, ordered the release of one million barrels of oil per day for the next six months, in order to replicate the increase in energy prices as a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

This is the largest release of oil in US history. Biden said the plan to release up to 180 million barrels of oil is part of a “strategy to lessen the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on domestic energy and gas prices.”

The price of gasoline is currently registering a record increase of almost 5 dollars a gallon compared to 3 dollars at the beginning of the year.

Record profits

On the other hand, the president of the United States referred to the oil companies and sent them a definitive message. In Biden’s opinion, in 2021 the oil companies made record profits equivalent to “80 billion dollars in profits last year and they are driving high prices right now. This is not the time to be stuck with record profits, this is the time to step up for the good of your country,” Biden said.

US consumption is currently around 20 million barrels of oil per day, while global consumption reaches 100 million barrels. With President Biden’s releases, more oil will be placed on the world market, impacting prices and costs.

According to the Department of Energy, US reserves have a “storage capacity of 714 million barrels in underground salt caverns at four sites along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.”

M. Rodríguez

Source: El Carabobeño

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The company SpaceX is celebrating, because in addition to completing its first 20 years of experience, it managed to set a new record by reusing its Falcon 9 booster rocket in 12 flights, which means that Elon Musk’s organization has been able to fly in 12 missions , returning to earth without complications to be used again.

The most recent flight was carried out internally for its sister company Starlink, with the aim of placing 53 satellites in orbit to strengthen the company’s internal telecommunications network to add a total of 2,300 satellites floating in space that allow it to offer its Internet.

The launch was recently carried out from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, since that flight an important mark was broken because it is “the most times the same propellant has been reused of SpaceX Falcon rocket to date.

The 53 Starlink satellites were moved by the Falcon 9 and its booster returned to the ground virtually intact to be ready for its next mission, which would add its 13th mission. In its history, the device has several important distinctions, such as “the 2020 Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission with a new capsule with a crew inside.”

Celebrating two decades of success

The private space company SpaceX celebrated its first 20 years of history and during the celebration took stock of its triumphs, as well as some failures and are currently in a “critical period full of achievements, where the milestones seem to begin to accumulate one to one.”

The stories about the possibility of carrying out explorations with the Falcon 9 rocket remained in the past.

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Source: fayerwayer.com

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The American company Apple earned 34,630 million dollars in its first fiscal quarter of 2022, which represents 20 % more than in the same period of the previous year, generating a profit of the order of 2.10 dollars per share, above the $ 1.89 anticipated by consensus.

The company’s shares increased by more than 2.5 % after the opening of Wall Street, while income increased 11 % to reach a record figure of 123,940 million dollars, exceeding the projections of analysts, who forecast a 118.5 billion dollars in sales.

While the operating profit has risen to 23 %, which represents some 41,488 million dollars, and the gross margin stood at 43.8 %, above the anticipated 41.7 %.

According to statements offered by Apple CFO, Luca Maestri, “the strong customer response to our recent launch of new products and services drove double-digit growth in revenue and earnings, and helped set an all-time record in our installed base of active devices.”

Records in Apple products

Innovation and new products have generated a significant increase in sales of Apple products. All but the iPad have posted new revenue records, as have the company’s business units. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, “this quarter’s record results were made possible by our most innovative lineup of products and services.”

Sales by product category report the following figures: 71,628 million dollars were obtained from the sale of iPhones, reflecting a 9 % growth; Mac computers registered 10,852 million dollars, which represents a 25 % growth.

For its part, the Accessories division generated 14,700 million dollars, a growth equivalent to 13 % and the Services division reached 19,500 million dollars, which means a growth of 25 %. However, iPads only brought in about $ 7.248 million in revenue, which is a 14 % decrease.

Impact of inflation

Apple’s CFO made reference to the impact that inflation is having, especially on the company’s logistics costs. However, he estimates that the situation is temporary. “Everyone is seeing inflationary pressure” and this price increase impacts the company’s margins “these increases are being taken into account in its gross margin. Some expenses such as logistics have a very high cost”. I emphasize Master.

Since the pandemic began in 2019, the company has been cautious when giving details about its forecasts for the coming months, due to the high uncertainty experienced by Covid-19, but even so, it continues to grow quarterly, making it a the most valuable company on the stock market.

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Source: bolsamania.com

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Spain registers a historical record of exports. Spanish companies once again make history by finding abroad the necessary source to overcome their crisis, as they did in 2008, breaking a record with exports in the order of 229,963 million euros between the months of January and September of this year.

The country exceeded by 6.7 % in volume the billings made for the same date in 2019, before starting the stoppage as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to what was disseminated in the Foreign Trade Report issued by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

On the other hand, imports increased by 21.9 % year-on-year, reaching 243,229.9 million euros, also a record figure in the first 10 months of the year.

The report says: “Exports rose 14.7 % year-on-year, since their prices increased 6.4 %, while imports grew 13.4 % year-on-year, due to their prices rising 7.5 %.”

The trade balance is another historical record, which stood with a deficit of 13,267.4 million euros, equivalent to 19.5 % higher than that recorded for the same period last year. The coverage rate was 94.5 %, that is, 0.1 percentage points more than that registered between January and September 2020

Energy deficit, another historical record

The energy deficit presented in the country was on the order of 96.8 % in the month of September, which represents about 1,798.2 million euros, while in September 2020 it registered about 913.7 million, showing the increase in prices of energy.

Among the sectors with the greatest weight over total exports, the following stand out: “chemical products (their exports represented 18.5 % of the total and increased by 54.9 % year-on-year), capital goods (18.1 % of the total and grew by 7.2 % year-on-year); food, beverages and tobacco (15.9 % of the total and increased by 17.7 % year-on-year) and the automobile sector (13.5 % of the total and decreased by 6.2 % year-on-year) ”.

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Source: elmundo.es

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