Epic closing in 111th edition of the Tour de France in the streets of Nicethe first time in history that the Tour de France did not end in traditional circuit on the Champs Elysees in Paris as a result of Olympic Games. After winning a historic hand, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (25 years old) He said in the preview of the final time trial today that his first goal is to reach the finish line safely because the CRI has its risks, but at the same time he opened the door to a new victory by pointing out that he is having of a blast. in the race and if he found the heat of the public he would fight for victory. Not content with his five wins, the Klanec cyclist has recaptured the throne of Tour de France with a new exhibition, with great success in the second test of this Tour de France, then Jonas Vingegaard It has taken away his glory in the last two years.
After reviewing what happened in the last two seasons, retouching some key points of his work plan, Pogacar designed with the precision of a surgeon a season in which he achieved what no one else has done in the last 26 years: achievement of Giro and Tour double at the same time. The last to get it was Marco Pantani in 1998. And he did it in a big way, with six stage victories in both the Giro and the Tour. Something never seen before. The last one was achieved in a new masterpiece in 33.7 kilometer individual time trial from Monaco to Nice. A plot of land he knew as the patio of his house and where he flew up and down. He set the best time in all references. If at first he passed Vingegaard in seven seconds, in second the difference reached 24, for 1’02” at the finish line, using a time of 45’34” at an average speed of 44.5 km/h.
Taking risks, rushing through curves and braking, Pogacar regained the throne at the Tour de France, added his third round and his third victory in a Tour time trial after competing in eight, after winning in 2020 and his first in 2021, after being embarrassed byr Vingegaard in the last one year, where he got 1’38”, and to see how Evenepoel He surpassed him in the first CRI this year.
In this Pogacar Tour he confirmed a great season, in which he won all the races he participated in, except Milan-Sanremowhere he was 3rd, and in all of this he exerted tremendous dominance in his best season.
The first cannibal said, the authentic one, the Belgian one Eddy Merckx to MD that “Pogacar is like me, and he does better than me in some races”, and the winner of five editions of the Tour is right, among a huge carousel of victories.
After Pogacar there was a Jonas Vingegaard who arrived exhausted after the heavy fall he suffered at ItzuliOh, he behaved like a champion, with a victory on the stage and second overall, in a performance that was perhaps not the best; preceding a Evenepoel who passed the test of his first Tour with flying colors, especially in the high mountains, to finish third. On his side, a big one Mikel Landa, faithful squire of the world time trial champion, who finished 5th and the best Spanish.
Golden signature in Nice of a spectacular Tour from start to finish, contested, with the best cyclists fighting an all-out battle and where Pogacar confirmed what it said Joxean Fernández Matxin in MD in the run-up to the Tour: number 1 and best cyclist in the world, supported by a very solid team, which won overall and placed three of its riders in the top ten.
Source: La Verdad
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