In the salad of wonderful data that is left on the way Tadej Pogacarthe following is one of the most surreal. The 26-year-old Slovenian prodigy, the fourth historic winner of cycling’s triple crown -Giro, Tour and World Cup in the same year-, has accumulated in the last two seasons. more points than some of the licensed World Tour teams from the ICU… alone!
In the 2023 and 2024 seasons, Pogacar has earned 19,375 points in the UCI individual ranking, a value that would place it as the seventeenth best team in the table over the last two campaigns. The Top 18 this time get WT status for 2026-2028, and the Slovenian will make a cut of more than 1,000 points. crazy
“It is clear that now he is superior to me,” sentenced Eddy Merckx, The Cannibalsin words collected by L’Equipe a day after Pogacar’s spectacular coronation at the 2024 World Cup in Zurich. If the Belgian, one of the best in cycling, if not the most, said it, it would be hard to say otherwise about the UAE phenomenon.
For now, it is known that the Slovenian wants to finally get the Sanremo and try to get closer to the dream of winning the five monuments, which is also lacking Paris-Roubaix. In 2025, it will also be attacked The Return in Spain, which gave him his debut in the grand tours in 2019 at the age of 20, the white jersey, three stages and the podium in the general classification.
Source: La Verdad
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