It was one after another until I lost count. Throughout the 2024 season, there will be no more qualifiers to determine the extraterrestrial achievements of Tadej Pogacar, in a year already Slovenian cyclist from Klanec bordered on perfection, achieving a total of 25 victories in 57 days of competition.
The number of wins is stratospheric, but beyond the leader’s goal UAE Team Emirates The way he achieved these achievements is outstanding, with an eternal smile that characterizes him and with endless exhibitions. He won the Street Bianche attacking 80 kilometers from the finish line surrounded by beautiful Tuscany, he went alone to 35 kilometers from the finish line of Liège-Bastogne-Liègeclosed the season at Il Lombardia launches a devastating attack 48.6 kilometers from the city of Como and achieves the victory of winning his first world attacking with 100 kilometers left to finish the race. Their rivals expected Pogacar’s move, but surprised them by doing so from afar. Both are on Switzerland As with his other achievements, some brave men tried to follow him, but in the end they put their foot down.
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No one can beat him. He managed to maintain a great peak of form throughout the season, devouring record after record, to the point that the legendary Eddy Merckx took off his hat after his display of power at world. “Obviously he was ahead of me. I thought about it when I saw it last time Tour de Francebut with what he did in the World Cup there is no doubt,” he said. ‘the cannibal’who in 1972 racked up 34 wins in 80 days.
Pogacar came close to Merckx and matched other cycling legends this year, such as to Fausto Coppi by adding his fourth victory to ‘Dead Leaves Classic’ yes Marco Pantani by achieving double Giro d’Italia and Tour de Francea success he achieved ‘The Pirate’ in 1998. Grand Tours where he not only took the overall but in each of them he managed to win six stages, not to mention the four he achieved in a Cycling Tour in Catalonia who won 3’41” against Alavés Mikel Landaor the 9’56” margin he achieved in the Corsa Rosa against the Colombian Daniel Felipe Martínez, or the 6’17” over Dane Jonas Vingegaard in the Grande Boucle, becoming the second rider in history capable of winning the Giro and the Tour in the same season by a difference of more than 6 minutes. The Italian Fausto Coppi He held this record for 72 years.
These are big words. Tadej Pogacar’s numbers are not normal and only available to selected ones. “This season has been special. A year in which Pogacar did the Giro and the Tour for the first time and, I won’t lie to you, the world champion jersey was highly sought after, because it was something that was missing from his record,” he explained to MD . Joxean Fernández ‘Matxin’sports manager of UAE Team Emirates and discovers Pogacar, who in a gesture of loyalty acknowledges that “the 2024 calendar is very likely for Pogacar to win all the races, as seen at the beginning in the Strade Bianche or the Volta, where he won until four stages. in a route that is very favorable to him. We know that 2024 will be easier, but 2025 will not be easy, but when it comes in Pogacar you don’t know.”
Waiting for him to resolve the doubts himself, Pogacar He enjoys the Christmas holidays at his home in Monaco with his partner, who is also a cyclist. Urska Zigart, waiting for 2024 to breathe its last breaths had the detail of wishing happy holidays and a better year 2025 to all Mundo Deportivo readers. Crack details.
Source: La Verdad
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