“Pogacar is a prodigy, Evenepoel is like an apprentice next to him. embarrassing”

“The Kingdom of Pogacar will become a dictatorship”. This powerful phrase is spoken by former professional cyclist Perico Delgado at ‘The APDV breakfasts’, organized by Valladolid Sports Press Association. The former winner of Tour de France 1988 and winner of two editions of The Return (1985 and 1989) compared current cycling with that of his time.

“Cycling today, where you work well with the athlete’s numbers, with your physical trainer who knows your numbers, the masseuse who touches your legs, the nutritionist… you have five or six people that warmed your head that you are there to win and Pogacar himself always wins, and if not Evenepel. The big problem is that there are so many advisors and so good that the runner does not end up supporting this tension and hung up the bike”, and that was “before you failed and you had to redo yourself. “It’s worse than being told you’re a motorcycle and then you find there are five or six better than you ,” said Perico.

And in his opinion, in cycling today “everything is controlled, they tell you the numbers you have to do. They are mediated by numbers whose run does not come spontaneously. Those numbers run them in good harmony where the good ones stand out.”

And the good ands Pogacar. “Very nice, one more Eddy Merckx. He is a wonder. ANDVenepoel He’s so good, he’s like an apprentice, it’s embarrassing, and the best thing about his mentality is that he likes to show off and win like a champion. He is a prodigy above all because of his mentality,” said Perico.

The Segovian cyclist is clear that Pogacar “seems happy with what he is doing” and that “he has come to dominate cycling in the next five years. The Kingdom of Pogacar will be a dictatorship.”

And now in terms of Spanish cycling, Perico trusts in the quality of Carlos Rodríguez and Juan Ayuso, mainly because of the level of Pogacar “I only see the Danish Jonas Vingegaard”.