Unbelievable: Tadej Pogacar broke all established records in the Volta a Catalunya

Winning can be won in many ways, but few in the way he did it Tadej Pogacar (25 years old) in Return to Catalonia only one. The Slovenian cyclist made his debut this year at the Catalan round and had a successful debut, dominating the race almost from the start and being lord and master in all scenarios, always with a smile on his face and addressing all requests of many fans who did not stop chanting his name, there are even two who will almost never forget this Volta. He gave a young man his sunglasses after signing a drawing on a piece of cardboard while his friend next door told him “what a bastard,” and another had the privilege of receiving his cap after ‘Handsome’ it will be released to the public at Quralt.

With the new bike, Pogacar is monitoring the Dane’s appearance Jonas Vingegaard. If Dane swept O Great Road for the second year in a row and topped the Tyrrhenian-AdriaticThe Slovenian did the same at the start of the season where he wanted to spice things up by announcing that he would be looking for success in Italy is spinning and in Tour de France and became the seventh rider in cycling history to achieve the double, after FAusto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Stephen Roche, Miguel Indurain and Marco Pantani.

So far, this campaign has won the Street Bianche after announcing that he would attack with 80 kilometers to go, making good on his words and giving a recital; be third to Milan-San Remo and to destroy the Volta. In the first stage at Sant Feliu de Guíxols They did not get the victory because of a miscalculation, in two high mountain stages he did not forgive and set two new records for climbing Valter already Port Aineon queen’s day he attacked 30 kilometers from the finish and had a mass bath on the last climb to Quralt and yesterday at Montjuïc circuit in Barcelona He took the sprint at full speed.

He was the best in four out of seven episodes. He was classified first overall, in mountain classification and in regularity, a dominance he accomplished at record speed. The poker of victories in the Volta has not been seen since the Italian achieved it Mario Cippolini in 1998. One of the Luca won the first, second, third and fourth stages, although unlike this year, the overall victory went Colombian cyclist from the Kelme Hernán Buenahora teamwho won the last two mountain stages, which ended in Vall de Boi and in Andorra la Vella.

Not content with this score, ‘Pogi’ was the first runner from then on Peter Sagan in Tour of Switzerland 2012 who won at least four stages in one of the great seven-day races and was the first since 1983 to win the Volta a Catalunya by such a wide margin. If the man from Klanec won by 3’41” against Mikel Landa, in 1983 the Kelme cyclist José Recio ended up winning Igualada by a margin of 4’26” in FAustin Rupérez, from Zor-Gemeaz.

After the Volta, Pogacar will take a few days off before returning to Liège-Bastogne-Liège, which he had to leave last year and has expired in 2021. And, later, his long-awaited debut in Italy is spinning.