Every pedal stroke Tadej Pogacar It is a giant step towards the heyday of cycling. This is because everything suggested is accomplished. He was on the verge of winning in 2022 tour of flander. He discovered the race, its secrets, its stones, its slopes and how its rivals behaved. It’s back this year. And he did it to destroy the Flanders ‘monument’ and become Eddy Merckx’s heir. Since ‘Cannibal’ won the great flamenco race in 1975, no other Tour winner has done it again. 48 years later, this Slovenian phenomenon has come to continue teaching cycling at every race he competes in.
He’s 24, just 24 years old, an age that serves to roll and mature on the bike before the new bike rides are so exciting, so gorgeous and not so boring. 24 years old and already with such a sensational track record that this Sunday, win in flandersforced him to come from the heart and say, “If I retire now, I’d be very proud of everything I’ve achieved.”
big attack
Because when he pulls his whip, looks down on Quaremont, one of the most traditional hills or walls in Flanders, and changes the rhythm to see how his bike is between its rear wheel and front wheel, no one can follow him. Mathieu Van der Poel (second in the finish and winner in 2022) there are only cobbles. And the rest, among no van aert needed (fourth behind Denmark Mad Pederson), has already given up and, in one of the most beautiful and incredible editions of recent years, holds the power to climb the lowest rung of that bicycle ‘monument’ called the Tour of Flanders.
He is 24 years old and has already won two Tours, two Lombardy, one Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico and has won anything he wants as long as he doesn’t make a double mistake as he did last year. On tour, it’s past Jonas Vingegaard’s great mountain day when he made a tactical mistake by stepping into Jumbo’s rags, a particularly seasoned Primoz Roglic, and forgetting to eat at the decisive moment.
more difficulties
Still need to conquer Paris-Roubaix – a complex feat for a light and bulky runner – and he already has two attempts to win. Milan-San Remoa career too long and without the extreme toughness it will need above all pogakar in the last kilometers of testing.
Now we’ll have to wait until the end of April to see him back at work, first on Walloon Arrow and then on the ‘Dean’ bonus above all else. Liege-Bastogne-LiegeThe oldest of many classics held, where the grand duel will be seen for the first time with Remco Evenepoel, another child prodigy of this great biker of the 20s of the 21st century.