In the life of Tadej Pogacar There was a before and after, an important day in his career, and it was none other than when he signed his first contract with UAE Team Emirates in 2019, which was his first year in the top division of professional cycling, in World Tour. That person began to marvel at his success at Return to the Algarvewith its sixth position in Itzulia and on his success in Tour of Californiabefore showing his qualities as a good roller, as a runner of the great tour lap, in what was his first appearance in a three-week cycling race.
Pogacar He didn’t enjoy competing, but he did it leaving his mark. Won three stages –Cortals d’Encamp, Andorra; Los Machucos and Gredos Platforms-, finished 3rd overall, second in the green jersey classification and first youngster.
The spring of the Vuelta took him the next two years to win the Tour de France (2020, 2021) already achieved double this year Giro d’Italia and Tourwhat no one has achieved since ‘Pirate’ Marco Pantani in 1998.
Five years after his victory in the Vuelta, where for the moment he ruled out competing this year, leaving the possible victory of a historic triplet – Giro, Tour and Vuelta in the same season – the general director of the Vuelta, Javier Guillénturns to MD and remembers the young Pogacar back in the Spanish round.
“I remember Pogacar in that Vuelta that we can say he discovered him, at least he showed ways. I’m talking about a young Pogacar in that Vuelta, seeing how young he is now, I think it would be fair to talk about an almost adolescent Pogacar From then on he had class and self-confidence and what I remember above all are two episodes, the arrival in Gredos, putting in what could be the podium in a bit of a problem, despite the stage itself, in the end he had an extraordinary performance. he ways, and it would be fair to say with all that we see today I didn’t miss the performance of a kid at that time who is so young that he is now in the legends of cycling,” he studies at first.
And he added, “I don’t think there’s anyone like him at the moment, and from a versatility point of view I think there’s only two, him and Eddy Merckx. It is true that he still needs to win the Vuelta to join the club of big three winners, but beyond that I believe that on his own merits he has earned a place on the Olympus of the cycling gods. We see it all year, we saw it this year. Tour and ultimately how lucky cycling can be to rely on athletes like Pogacar and the Vuelta was so lucky to have discovered a cyclist that I fear will never happen again. I hope he continues to break records, all he has left now is to go to Lap and win it, when it is, I do not know, but we are waiting for you satisfied and with open arms.
Source: La Verdad
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