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For two weeks, the Slovenian Primožas Rogličius, who dominated the general classification, suffered a fiasco.
The 30-year-old winner of last season’s Vuelta a España, who knew how to trust the Jumbo-Visma team to dictate the conditions in the Andes and the Pyrenees, could not hold out on the penultimate stage of the Tour de France.
On Saturday, in a separate start of the race, the riders had to ride the 36.2 km track, ending up on a steep 20-degree slope.
P. Rogličius, who had an advantage of almost a minute over the closest pursuer in the general classification, gave up his last strength and took fifth place on the stage.
Under normal circumstances, this might have been enough for a final victory. However, this was not the usual Tour de France.
Tadejus Pogačaras, a compatriot of P. Rogličius, did it differently.
The UAE Team Emirates and Tour de France rookie, who only warmed up in the peak race last year, recklessly attacked the last peak of the Vosges Mountains.
T. Pogačar reached the top in 55 minutes. 55 sec. Almost a minute and a half faster than the Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, second classified. And almost two minutes faster than P. Rogličius.
It was he who last week of the Tour de France tried to follow the bite of his compatriot wearing a yellow jersey. In second place overall, T. Pogachar invaded after the Slovenian pace on stage 13 in the mountains of the Massif Central failed to keep up. The Colombian, who defended the title, withdrew from the fight completely after two more stages, complaining that his body had reached the limit of its possibilities.
Thus, in the penultimate stage of the penultimate stage, T. Pogachar obtained the same advantage.
On Sunday, the plain stage with a traditional finish on the Champs Elysees in Paris could not change anything.
Celebrating his 22nd birthday on Monday, Pogachar became the youngest Tour de France champion since 1904, when the winner was Henri Cornet, a 20-year-old Frenchman.
“An incredible journey on the French roads. I don’t even have words “, -” a shark in sheep’s clothing ” cyclingnews.com nicknamed young man.
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The Jumbo-Visma team, who lost their yellow jersey, had no words either.
“We weren’t expecting that,” said Dumoulin, who finished seventh in the final standings.
“There was less and less energy left, I gave it my all. I just didn’t push hard enough, “P. Rogličius looked confused.
It is interesting that at the age of T. Pogačaras, he only started his career as a cyclist; before that, P. Rogličius was involved in ski jumping.
Although for him such an atomic nucleus is a huge personal failure, who would have thought that one day two Slovenians would compete for victory in the Tour de France. One of the smallest countries in cycling, as Slovenia is described by The Guardian, runs only two international races and has two teams training young talents.
“What I saw seemed surreal to me. I feel like I’m in a parallel universe, ”Martin Hvastia, vice president of the Slovenian Cycling Association, described the benefits of his compatriots in France.
Trek-Segafredo’s Australian Richie Porte took third place in the overall standings at the same Vosges Hill.
T. Pogachar also won the young and mountain runner classification. Irishman Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quick Step) took first place in the points classification, probably the last stage, and the winner of the team classification was the Spanish Movistar Team.
Happy 22nd birthday to newly crowned Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar. pic.twitter.com/dMUTZpfkWW
– The world of cycling (@twocGAME) September 21, 2020
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tour de France, which took place at an unusual moment, consisted of a total of 21 stages. The cyclists ran 3.5 thousand. km of French roads.
This time no Lithuanian participated in the race.
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