It’s hard to find heroes like them. It is almost impossible to live extreme situations, like the one that lived the great, the tremendous, the immense, Tadej Pogacar and, 24 hours later, see him emerge like an exterminating angel, and give back to the man who hurt him, Jonas Vingegaardthe same hitidentical slash, a perfect blow to the jaw, to the same jaw you landed his.
What Pogacar has done today at the top of Cauterets, with Emmanuel Macron’s car passing him a few meters from the finish line, a totally prohibited maneuver, even as he is the President of the Republic!, is worthy, or only worthy, of an athlete, of an athlete, of a cyclist, of a ‘cannibal’, of a dictator like him. Only.
Pogacar has studied, persecuted, endured and, finally, mistreated and distanced the great Vingegaard, in 28 seconds (in just two kilometers), to the man who left him breathless in the Marie Blanque. Pogacar, who rides alone, absolutely alone, since he has no team, has risen in front of the entire Jumbo Visma army, a squad that has the luxury of having, perhaps, the third best cyclist in that peloton, Wout van Aert, as an employee, as a domestique of Vingegaard.
An impressive Pogacar resurfaces in the Pyrenees
And ‘Carlitos’, sticky
Pogacar has not only risen from the ashes that were scattered in the ditches of Marie Blanque, but has also shown that if he overcomes this bad moment, it is already glorious! can win the TourWell, as the days go by, that left wrist, which he loosens from his handlebars from time to time to do relaxation exercises in the calm moments of the route, will end up being his best ally to show that he is still the king of the squad
Everything was doubtful about the Slovenian in this sixth stage. And everything has come to nothing, in the confirmation that yesterday was a bad day and that Pogacar, I insist, even alone, without a team, is still the monarch of this multicolored squad where the boy Carlitos Rodríguez He continues to do his thing and excite the Spanish fan. Carlitos is already fifth overall.
But let’s go back to Pogacar, who withstood the impressive display of the Jumbo on a day of hard slopes. It was Pogacar against the world, against all the Jumbo. Especially against that cycling prodigy, Wout van Aert, who would rather have fun at Christmas doing cyclocross and, in the spring, in the classics, than being one of the favorites of the Tour.
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Because it was Van Aert who broke the race and who took his boss in the ‘queen’s little chair’ until there were five kilometers left to climb Cauterets. Over there almost dies, almost faints, having to help the spectators to survivebut Van Aert had already fulfilled his mission wonderfully and spectacularly: to place his boss in a position to (almost) decide the Tour.
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But no, his boss, Vaingegaard, also showed, like Pogacar yesterday, that he is human. And, with 2,800 meters to go, the Slovenian launched a deadly, powerful, surprising, chilling attack that left the Dane in the Jumbo stiff, standing, weak, who lost almost half a minute at the finish line, half a minute in 2,800 meters! Pogacar is alive!
And there were (and many) who thought that Pogacar was going to settle, in today’s hard stage, with recovering sensations, showing that he is not dead, maintaining morale and preparing his revenge, his revenge, in the Puy de Dôme on Sundaybut the ‘cannibals’ (and cycling, old and modern, know a lot about that) can never have enough and, above all, they always surprise.
Pogacar did not want to lose time or opportunity or his good feelings. He, better than anyone, knows that either he does it his way, or he does it wildly, or he does it alone, or nobody, nobody, not even his team, who left him absolutely alone when only six stages of the Tour-2023, will help him become, once again, the ‘lord in yellow’.
2023-07-06 16:58:18
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