This victory for Pogacar in Flanders is a takeover bid for the legend
Turning each race into a monument, a tribute to what drives us crazy, cycling, giving everything in each turn, each Flanders straight, that has given us Pogacar again.
It is true that It was difficult for Pogacar to win the Tour of Flanderswho could be in his aspirations, but who was competing against coconuts, and that middle class that also counts, in a powerful tour, but perhaps not at the level of hardness that he needs.
All that was difficult, but precisely because of that, the Slovenian was “on fire”, ready and readybecause his thing is not to compete against the present, it is to compete with History itself, to believe that it is capable and to be able to do it.
I have said it a thousand times, I repeat it, this is a gift, like the one our grandparents could live with Merckx or our parents with Hinault, well make no mistake, Pogacar has sat down at his table and from there you don’t move him.
A thousand statistics can explain what Tadej Pogacar has done in this Tour of Flanders.
One that we saw early in the race said that only Louison Bobet and Eddy Merckx had won the Tours of Flanders and France: Pogacar is already there.
Another assured that the Slovenian had never won a great race with Van der Poel and Van Aer in contention, he has also loaded it.
And so everything, like a serpentine of history in which Pogacar stretches his index finger and makes pieces fall due to the same inertia with which he enlarges his history and honors.
We speak with admiration of Van Aert, Van der Poel and Remco, but the Slovenian has two Lombardy plus Flanders and Liège, his records grow, expand and threaten to hit the ceiling.
Pogacar, now yes, signs the HISTORY, in his own handwriting, with an endless hunger, #nolimitswinning in opposite territory.
His obsession since the beginning of the year was Flanders, and in Flanders he is going to win, alone, without anyone, without sprints…. Now what if he goes mamao.
A capital victory #RVV23— JoanSeguidor (@JoanSeguidor) April 2, 2023
And it is not easy, this Flanders has been a wall in itself, but not the Paterberg, which is hard but short and explosive, a Koppenberg plus Oude Kwaremont, a full-fledged tribute to cycling, from top to bottom in all directions.
As Arrow said, He has not only won by being the strongest, he has also put strategy on the tablelooking the other way in that very dangerous escape that put everything so to the limit that it demanded the best possible response.
He had to row from a distance, more or less when we predicted right here, leaving rivals and defoliating the flower until the final moment of taking down Van der PoeL.
There were a little less than twenty kilometers left but the certainty floated that the race was seen to be sentenced.
Now to enjoy, because we have not seen anything like it, neither in quantity nor in quality, he is a vintage cyclist, a legend and that goes for it, the three big ones and the five monuments, he is at it and until he succeeds they will not stop him .
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