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Beyond all that has been mentioned about the supremacy of Primoz Roglic at Tour de France and the power of the Jumbo Visma, one of the most pleasant runners has also been the Slovenian Tadej pogacar, podium in the Vuelta a España of the previous year and almost fixed in that of the current gala round.
Pogacar, with little help in Team Emirates, has been able to break the race on several occasions and has reached second place in the general classification and is also close to a record that Nairo Quintana achieved in the 2013 Tour.
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In 2013, Nairo surprised the world by fighting the Tour with the intractable Chris Froome, being second in the general classification 4 minutes and 20 seconds behind the British, beating the Spanish Joaquim Rodríguez and Alberto Contador.
Thus, was awarded the best youth shirt at the time beating runners like Andrew Talansy and Michal Kiatkowski.
Added to that, en the 2013 Tour Nairo Quintana won the red pepas jersey that identifies the king of the mountain with 11 points of difference with respect to Chris Froome and 30 over Pierre Rolland.
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That same record could be reached by Tadej Pogacar this Saturday on the Tour from France: he is currently second in the general classification and the best youngster by a wide margin compared to Enric Mas after the retirement of Egan Bernal.
As for the mountains, today the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz is the leader, but Pogacar has it only six points behind and there is still one first-class port and two fourth-class ports in the Tour. It will not be easy for the Slovenian, but if he makes a better climb in the CRI, could achieve the epic record of Nairo.
