Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx ... the challenge for those chosen to win the Tour as a rookie that Pogacar pursues

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Among the top four finishers on this Tour, runners with uneven but objective chances of winning the event, there are two rookies:

.

Furthermore, the Slovenian has only participated once, at 21, in another great round: the 2019 Vuelta. He is almost a complete rookie in these races.

On the other hand, the Colombian, at 26, has already done two Turns and four Laps.

He is not a novice.

The Tour is the most demanding, complete and complex race in the world.

Facing it with real options for victory requires, apart from luck in the face of mishaps and imponderables, maximum abilities and considerable experience.

It doesn't seem like the most appropriate career for a newcomer, unless your name is

.

Except, of course, for the inaugural edition, in which all were neophytes, and ignoring those remote initial and initiatory years, only those six riders have won the Tour in their first dance.

Coppi had already turned 30, but the Tour was not played, because of the Second World War, from 1940 to 1946, and he had already won the Giro del 40 at the age of 21.

Anquetil and Gimondi were 23. Merckx, 24. Hinault, also 23. Fignon, 22.

Coppi had time to take one more Tour.

The youth especially favored Anquetil, Merckx and Hinault, who signed up another four.

Gimondi, on the other hand, did not repeat.

Fignon yes, but only once.

The fact is that, in the Tour, as in the other two great stage races, both full of examples, precocity is not necessarily synonymous with continuity and abundance.

In the same way, a "late" triumph can be a preamble to others of curd maturity.

, who, on his debut, was second at 22, was 23 when he won the 1997 Tour. And that was it.

In four other editions he was second.

He suffered several deaths on the very shore.

, on the other hand, was already 27 years old when he was crowned in Paris in 1991 and chained five consecutive Tours.

And

debuted at 28 in 2013 and, although not followed, managed three more.

Egan Bernal

, who has not yet known the Giro or the Vuelta, is a prodigy of youth and aim.

In 2019, at the age of 22, he made his debut at Paris-Nice and the Tour of Switzerland.

And he won both.

Reach out and kiss the saint.

He also won in that edition of the Tour.

But it was his second participation.

Perhaps he did not win in the first, with 21 springs, because he was a page, in the powerful Sky, by

and Chris Froome.

After the Grand Colombier stage, he will not triumph in his third.

Also, 'from Ortega', the cyclists are them and their circumstances.

The menacing ones that surround Pogajar and López, those two beginners, are the same ones that affect all cyclists, from the yellow "jersey" to the "red lantern."

It's called Covid-19.

He is also a debutante.

And the only undesirable.

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