The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (25 years) recognized after overwhelmingly winning the Italy is spinning who lived three weeks of true madness. Blessed is his madness. If we think about it, it’s hard to find a top-level cyclist more famous than Tadej Pogacar. A popularity given him by his successes, it is true, but also by his way of achieving them, by his way of running boldly and always on the attack, and by his being close to the fans.
He could not achieve victory in the first stage of the Giro and this ‘defeat’ prevented him from wearing the pink jersey in 21 stages of the race, he was a distant one, 20. Not bad. How well dressed he is ‘Pink Panther’ and with so many days ahead there are those who say that neither he nor his team are interested in the prospect of leading the race with so many days left, but the truth is that ‘Handsome’ He carried the weight of the Giro with remarkable naturalness.
Voices were also heard, few and not very loud, criticizing that Pogacar showed the ambition he showed in the Giro, wanting to win all the stages he can reach, as if saying that he left a few days for his rivals. But what will he do, let himself win?
Pogacar has a huge advantage over its rivals. He ended up winning six of the 21 stages, five of them with the pink jersey, as many Eddy Merckx in 1973, achieved a poor margin of second place overall, Daniel Felipe Martinez, 9 minutes and 56 seconds, the biggest difference since 1965. And he didn’t extend his Giro record because they had to stop him.
Pogacar is one of the athletes, one of the cyclists, pedaling to please the fans. In an era where he measured his efforts again, perhaps more than before, Pogacar excelled in the classics and in all the races in which he competed.
If Pogacar showed anything at the Giro, it was that he was a man of grand tours. So far he has competed in six, he has finished six, he has won three, two Tours (2020, 2021) and one Giro (2024) and in six grand tours, attention, in all of them he has finished on the podium .
The next goal, the Tour de Francewhere all your best rivals should be –Roglic, Vingegaard, Evenepoel- and where Pogacar will be looking to reclaim the throne that Vingegaard took from him in 2022 and become the first cyclist since 1998 to achieve the Giro-Tour double. Marco Pantani.
Source: La Verdad
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