The new appointment in the story of Tadej Pogacar this week in the Triptych of the Ardennes

the taste of Tadej Pogacar At 24 years old, he doesn’t have any doubts. The young Slovenian cyclist, double winner of Tour de France2020 and 2021, he remains determined to be one of the greatest in history and make sure that cycling will not stop gaining followers thanks to the courage and bravery of runners like him, who dared so much in the classics of a day, as in the one-week test or the three-week grand tour and not waiting for the last kilometers to try to be the star.

This way of understanding cycling has ‘Handsome’ It was seen again this past Sunday with the recital he gave at Amstel Gold Racein the first of three tests that make up the so-called Ardennes Triptychin what was his sixth victory in a classic.

A victory in which the leader of UAE Team Emirates He endorsed his excellent start to the season, where he almost only knows the word success. In the 17 days he has been competing so far, he has achieved victory in nine of them, adding to his record trials that are still unlike the classics. Jaen Inner Paradise, The back to Andalusia wave Amstel Gold Racewhere he won fourteen days after the miracle at tour of flanders.

After being shown at the ‘classic brewery’ in klanec corridor He was asked if he would play the two classics this week where the Ardennes challenge ends: walloon arrow, tomorrow, prove that it has been elusive; and the Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday, which he won in 2021 earlier Julian Alaphilippe.

If he achieves success in the two remaining appointments of the Ardennes Triology, Pogacar will become the third rider in cycling history to win all three Ardennes classics in the same week, after he did so in 2004. David Rebellin and in 2011 Philippe Gilbert. To do this, he must first win tomorrow at walloon arrowclassic played four times with 9th place of 2020 as the best result, after being 12th in 2022.