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Some cycling greats bow to Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar. The media praises it.
Tadej pogacar
celebrates with his girlfriend Urska Zigart, who is also a cyclist, in Paris.
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Tadej Pogacar only knows the final beat of 1989 from YouTube videos and old stories. Born on September 21, 1998, the Slovenian was not even born when Greg Lemond snatched victory from the Tour in that memorable time trial on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
Like Lemond in 1989
In a famous mountain time trial against La Planche des Belles Filles, Pogacar now surpassed his compatriot Primoz Roglic, who had previously been so sovereign, in the general classification. Like Lemond in 1989, but then on the last day in Paris.
I screamed in front of the television like I screamed when I won on the Champs Elysees in 1989.
The American was very excited about the Slovenian’s triumphant journey. “I screamed in front of the television, as I screamed on the Champs Elysees when I won in 1989. This is the birth of a great, great champion,” Lemond told the French newspaper. The team.
Merckx also full of praise
Other cycling greats also bowed to Pogacar. «I already knew after the last Lap that it was great. You don’t do a number like that if you don’t have talent, ”said five-time Tour winner Eddy Merckx.
And former patron Lance Armstrong, now outlawed in cycling circles and banned for life due to his doping past, spoke of an “achievement for eternity.” Perhaps it was the best of all.
International press reviews
- The team (FRA): Young and carefree. Like Laurent Fignon in 1983, 21-year-old Tadej Pogacar made history yesterday by winning the tour when he first participated.
- The Guardian (GBR): “The youngest Tour de France winner in a century drove to the City of Light at sunset on Sunday and looked like an incredible child from head to toe.”
- Brand (ESP): Tadej Pogacar, it can’t be anyone else. Champion of the tour, wearing the yellow jersey, although he only wore it one day, the last, during the entire race ”.
- La Gazzetta dello Sport (ITA): Tadej has his destiny written in his name, which means something like a brave heart. The young Slovenian from Komenda, a small town in Upper Carniola, won the 107th Tour de France. With heart and class he took revenge on the wind that had been his enemy, and yesterday he overturned the route and deceived the chronometer in the 36 kilometers from Lure to the Planche des Belles Filles. Those (kilometers) that changed his life forever. “
