The qualifiers end with Tadej Pogacar. Seven days after becoming the new cycling road world champion in so many ways, the Slovenian has once again climbed to the top of the podium. After resting for a few days, celebrate his first gold medal at a World Championship, At 26 years old, Pogacar once again showed why many consider him, at the age of 26, the best cyclist in history.
On the first day he wore the rainbow jersey that introduced him as the new world championPogacar won again with an insulting authority, in one of the tests he did not escape, after being second in the last two editions, and had to face some important rivals, such as Remco Evenepoel, Primoz Roglic or Matteo Jorgenson.
But it doesn’t matter what the route is. It doesn’t matter what the rivals are in front of you. When Pogacar starts the motorcycle, no one can follow him. Their morale was revived and the others seemed to be running even in fear, praying that Pogacar would have a bad day and not be exposed.
The main moment
This Saturday, at 107th edition of the Giro de la Emiliathe Pogacar again launched another distant attack, 38 kilometers from the finish line, at first of five climbs to San Luca (2.1 km of climbing at about 10% slope) and under the pouring rain. Well seconded to him UAE Team Emirates that ended with the sun escaping, as soon as Pogacar moved the race was doomed – after the first step to the finish line he already had a margin close to 40 seconds – and it only remains to see who will be with him on the podium , position that finally went to the British Thomas Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and for Italian Davide Piganzoli (Polti Kometa)second and third respectively.
This Saturday was Pogacar’s 24th victory this season – he has won all but two races he has run – and 87th since his debut in 2015 with Club Radenskaa record that could reach 89 wins if he wins on October 8 at Three Valleys of Varesino and on the 10th at Tour of Lombardy, to which this year he added T againof France and the Giro d’Italiadouble no one has achieved since then Marco Pantani in 1998.
Pogacar was at a loss for words, riding with more than a 2’30” margin over his rivals and eventually overtaking by 1’54”; apart from which it is worth highlighting Enric Maswho finished 8th. Unstoppable.
Source: La Verdad
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