> With each passing day, more controversy seems to arise around last week’s Traka Adventure, a 560-kilometer event around Girona, Spain. The event, the longest of The Traka gravel options — which the organizers claim is not a race — has been marred by several scandals that have undermined the results of the event and have raised questions around the organization and ultra-racing writ large.
> Between the men’s winner, Victor Bosoni, cutting the course multiple times according to GPS data; the second-place rider, Max Agut, having previously served a four-year doping ban before resuming his cycling career last August; and according to some participants persistent inconsistencies and organizational failures in the lead-up to the race, the event has come under much scrutiny this week.
> After the course-cutting controversy, a second shoe dropped as more information about Max Agut, the second-place finisher, who almost won if it weren’t for a broken handlebar at the tail end of the event, came to light.Agut, an ultra-racer who appeared to burst onto the scene last year with a landmark performance at the 2025 Badlands ultra-event, was suspended for four years for EPO in 2021 as an amateur cyclist in France. While Agut was not a UCI pro rider, he was racing in U23 and low-level UCI races until he abruptly stopped racing in August of 2021.
> Questions about medical transparency have also swirled around the winner, Victor Bosoni. Bosoni has been open about his therapeutic use of testosterone treatment to encourage muscle growth for the diminutive French ultra specialist.
WTF I love gravel racing now