Marc Hirschi, Cancellara's pupil with "Mbappé's potential"

• Chronicle.Hirschi finally wins the award for his tenacity

There is a common denominator among the components of the new breed of near-juveniles who are breaking all the precocity records known so far in cycling.

They still lack the veterans' tendency to conservatism, to think that today's effort might pay off tomorrow.

So when they start, they don't stop unless they catch up on the first effort.

This is how

builds his legend

, also

, even

, who this week reproached

for suggesting a Colombian alliance when he does not find a relief when they are alone at the head of the race.

He undoubtedly belongs to that lineage - that of his contemporaries, not that of Nairo - Marc Hirschi, another of those names that will define cycling for the next decade.

Well known to the most loyal fans of cycling, this Thursday he made his presentation in society winning his first stage of the Tour de France.

After two clubs - second in Nice and third in Laruns - he finally reached the goal, finishing off in the longest stage of this edition a perfect team move by Sunweb, the team that plays the best on this Tour, although there are not enough shooters.

Hirschi is power, he is tenacity and he is determination.

Qualities he acquired on the bike by watching

on television

, one of the best riders and time trialists of this century, born in Berne like him.

He saw his neighbor Spartacus and the boy Marc dreamed of being one day like him.

He still has a long way to go to achieve this, but he is undoubtedly on the path of at least being an inescapable name in the history of Swiss cycling.

His victory yesterday, in fact, is the first for Switzerland since Cancellara's last, in 2012.

Office apprentice

He has the advantage that whoever was his childhood idol is today his representative and advisor, the voice that whispers in his ear what is the right path to success.

"He has the potential of a Kylian Mbappé," 'Espartaco' said of him a few months ago.

And he explained that, beyond his undoubted talent, he also has the interest, "the broad thirst for knowledge" that distinguishes those who promise a lot from those who actually get it.

A maturity that is also reflected in the management of his stage as a youth.

For four years, he combined the bicycle with his work as an apprentice in an office.

"So if I had a career-ending accident, I could start working right away," he explains.

Only when the Sunweb confirmed in 2018 that he would become part of his professional squad the following season did he focus one hundred percent on cycling.

By then, he was already a star in the making, a condition he confirmed in the U23 World Cup, which he won ahead of the late

, Pogacar, Padun, Castrillo, Vlasov, Dunbar ... In his debut year in the elite, already He reaped great results, especially his third place in the San Sebastián Classic won by

and his fifth place overall in the Benelux Tour.

His confirmation came this Thursday, in his first victory as a professional, breaking with the help of his team the escape he was part of on the ramps of Suc ou May, later consolidating his advantage in the descent towards Sarran and thus honoring Cancellara, who he is now the one who watches one of his neighbors on television and becomes enthusiastic about him.

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