Stunning and historic Pogacar exhibit that snatches the Tour from Roglic

• Tour Why is Tadej Pogacar, a boy who runs like an old man, so good?

An anthological exhibition for the annals of cycling history.

The Slovenian

, the new cycling prodigy, signed one of the most amazing pages of the Tour de France in the time-trial of La Planche des Belles.

In a plethora of exercise, he snatched the lead of the round from his compatriot

, who had 57 seconds overall, a useless distance compared to the 1.56 minutes lost today.

Pogacar, virtual winner of the Tour, sets a record unparalleled in the French race.

On Sunday he will climb to the top of the podium on the Champs Elysées as the first rookie to win it at the age of 21.

The record is held by the French

, aged 19, in the 1904 Tour. The Slovenian's feat is a revolution, a prize for attack cycling, that of good climbers.

Blessed youth.

Today's will be an unforgettable time trial, like the one in which

beat

on the last day of 1989 and which served to score the Grande Boucle with just eight seconds.

Pogacar dominated from start to finish in an endurance exercise, where it was essential to correctly dose energy, with the first part of the route slightly inclined and the last six kilometers of ascent to the La Planche des Belles Filles pass, with 8.5% unevenness.

About 40 minutes on the flat and 20 uphill.

already ventured it

, that the chrono was more about strength than legs.

Roglic had a 57-second mattress that he couldn't hold.

Neither did the Colombian, who was 1.39 over

and lost the third place to the benefit of the Australian.

and

, who were separated by 51 seconds, kept the pulse until the end, with the Alava, at the end, fourth in the general and the Balearic, fifth.

was overtaken by

and lost the tenth place.

Pogacar overwhelmed with his solid pedaling and his regularity, at 20 kilometers he had already taken half a minute from Roglic and before facing the climb he already caressed the minute.

He changed bikes with great ease and with three kilometers left he was already the virtual winner of the Tour.

Incredible for a movie ending.

The Slovenian boy scores this strange Tour.

The one with the bubble.

The one with the masked ones.

The one with the PCR.

The one from Slovenia.

The one about compatriots duels.

Yes, because it will always be remembered for the challenge between Roglic and Pogacar.

Since 1984 it had not occurred that the first two classified belonged to the same country and to different teams.

Then Laurent Fignon (Renault) beat maestro

(La Vie Claire) by 10 minutes.

The Parisian signed his second consecutive title (he won in five stages) and the Breton unsuccessfully pursued his fifth wound.

The last time that first and second shared nationality and squad was in 2012, with the British

and

, with Sky.

In this Tour at the end of the Ineos dictatorship, Roglic only failed on the last day and did them against Pogacar, a guy breaks all the molds and who today will be crowned in Paris.

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