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Primoz Roglic entered a select group after the ninth stage of the 2020 Tour de France. The Slovenian, who was third on the stage after his compatriot Pogacar and the Swiss Hirschi, will wear on Tuesday (if all goes well after the PCR tests on Monday) the yellow jersey of the Tour de France leader for the first time in his career. In this way, he becomes the 24th runner in history to do so. and the sixth that is currently active behind Chris Froome, Vincenzo Nibali, Fabio Aru, Mark Cavendish and Rohan Dennis.
Roglic It also does so consecutively in the last three laps that have been held, since it was leader in the 2019 Giro, in which he finished third after Carapaz and Nibali, Also a red jersey in the last Tour of Spain, which he won, and will now wear yellow in the Tour. Of the 24 runners who have succeeded, The one who led the big three the most days is, as expected, Eddy Merckx, with 182 (77 in the Giro, 96 in the Tour and 9 in the Vuelta). In that list, two Spaniards appear: Miguel Indurain and Alberto Contador. Of the mentioned 24 leaders of the three great tours, only seven have achieved the general classification in all of them: Jacques Anquetil, Alberto Contador, Chris Froome, Felice Gimondi, Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merck and Vincenzo Nibali.
