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 In 1954............. 

XVIII descent.

The Sella is unstoppable: the newspapers are echoed more and better than the event, people responds more and of many corners of the world.

The colors are established that at last, placed horizontally, they would become the flag of the Sella: the Yellow one would be for the absolute winner of the previous year, the Green one for the champion by teams of the previous year, the white one for all the foreign teams, the Blue one for all the national teams, the Red one for all the Asturian teams.

Necklaces of flowers and hat they form part of the innovation of this year. They are 76 canoes the ones that participate, but a new criterion is incorporated to carry out the classification, who after 30 min. that the first one arrive there be not crusader the goal, did not he count as classified.

The winners that year are the riosellanos Antonio and Maximino Cuesta with 1 h 40 min. 55 seg.