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The champion of the gala round, Tadej Pogacar, will be crowned this Sunday at the award ceremony in Paris, on the Champs Elysees.
It was three weeks of hard pedaling until the end of the finish line with all the emotions for Colombian cycling and disappointments such as bad luck for Sergio Higuita (retired due to a hard fall), the accidents of Nairo Quintana and the ailments of the 2019 Tour champion, Egan Bernal, who put his back to suffer to finally say goodbye to the dream of defending his leadership this year.
In the end they were in the general classification Colombian cyclists Rigoberto Urán (Education First, tenth place) and Miguel Ángel López (Astana), the ‘Superman’ from Boyacá, in sixth place. They will receive a prize of $ 3,000 euros and $ 23,000 euros, respectively, which will go to the treasury of their teams.
The surprise was given by the Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) who in the penultimate stage was awarded the victory and dethroned his compatriot Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma) from his dream of being the champion in Paris.
He is the virtual champion of the competition, only missing the arrival in Paris, known as the passing stage, where the riders stop attacking each other out of respect for the previous stages where they had thousands of kilometers to show who was the best in the competition.
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The champion award
Agree with the regulation, the prize for first place in the general classification is $ 500,000 euros. The competition recognizes the second place $ 200,000 euros and $100,000 euros for those who finish third.
Pogacar was also the best of the young for which he receives an additional $ 20,000 euros and was also crowned as the best climber in the competition, with a recognition of $ 25,000 more euros.
In total, the prize for the cyclist Slovenian reaches $ 545,000 euros, which today is equivalent to about $ 2,406,175,000, a figure that will not go directly into the athlete’s pocket rather, it is part of the income that goes to the team. This money is distributed among all the members as a fair recognition of their effort.
The earnings of a professional cyclist come mainly from his salary, which is agreed in the contract with the team and also by the bonuses that the team recognizes to its cyclists for winning competitions and stages.
If the money went directly to Pogacar’s budget, almost a million Transmilenio tickets could be paid in Bogotá or the cyclist could buy about 5 Audi R8 3.0 cars, the most expensive vehicle available in Colombia and worth $ 460 million.
If we compare it in salaries, it would be enough to give the minimum salary to 2,741 Colombians who receive this monthly income. But it would only be enough for the monthly salary of 73 congressmen, They earn around $ 33 million a month.
But assuming Pogacar was addicted to seventh-generation iPads, his prize at the Tour de France would serve to buy about 1,200 units, each for $ 1,999,000, as they are obtained in the great retails that there are in the country.
The truth is that no money compares with emotion that Pogacar must have to be crowned the just winner in the toughest competition that has the world sport.
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