Retirement
Indurain lives near Pamplona and has a house in Benidorm, on the Mediterranean. He and his wife, Marisa, have three children. He founded the Miguel Indurain Foundation in 1998 to promote sport in the Navarra region from which he comes. He is its president. He worked with the Spanish Olympic Committee, to promote Sevilla's candidature for the 2004 Olympics, and the Union Cycliste Internationale. He hunts wildlife and rides a bike three or four times a week. He attends cyclotourist events such as L'Étape du Tour and the Cape Argus Pick & Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town, South Africa.
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