Easy to say and hard to assimilate. Tadej Pogacar he will win Giro d’Italia 2024 with a difference of 9’56” compared to the second classified, the Colombian Daniel Felipe Martínez. In cycling as it is now, where everything is equal, this margin seems from another planet, especially if you dig a little in the newspaper archives.
Since 1945 the distinction of 9’56” has been achieved Pogacar This is the fourth largest distance between first and second, exceeding 9’18” Basso in Gutierrez in 2006, the same margin that also strangely happened in between Coppi and Magni in 1952. Only 11’26” of Adorni in Zilioli, the 23’47” of Coppi in Bartali in 1949 and the 24’16” of Clerici in Koblet in 1958, understandably that was another cycling.
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But Pogacar also won six stages, five of them with the pink jersey, and he was also the best in the mountains.
He did not take the ciclamino jersey, which went to the Italian Jonathan Milanor of the youngest rider, who has been, and where Pogacar no longer competes, also for transalpine Antonio Tiberi.
Source: La Verdad
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