A huge cyclist, like the heroes of yesteryear, capable of winning in winter, spring, summer and fall.
Tadej Pogacar
is a gem, a blessing for cycling.
This Saturday Il Lombardia was awarded, the 'Classic of the Dead Leaves', the last of the season, in which it debuted.
A victory with epic overtones, with an attack 38 kilometers from the finish line.
Slovenian is a phenomenon of those who mark epoch. Beat from start to finish with artwork in higher-ranking stages. Last February he started the course with victory and stage in the
Tour de UAE,
in March he won the
Tirreno-Adriatico
, in April he took a stage in the
Basque Country
and
Liege-Bastogne-Liège
, in July the
Tour de France
(and three stages) and the
Tour of Slovenia
(and one stage) and in October the tough Lombard classic.
He is a UAE boy and he is the only one who has won two Monuments this year.
The other illustrious one-day events were won by Belgian
Jasper Stuyven
(Trek), at Milan-San Remo;
the Danish
Kasper Asgreen
(Deceuninck), in the Tour of Flanders;
and the Italian
Sonny Colbrelli
(Bahrain) at the Paris-Roubaix.
But nobody is comparable to Pogacar, who overwhelms with a long-distance run, like the runners of before, like
Eddy Merckx
,
Bernard Hinault
,
Luis Ocaña
or
Felice Gimondi did
.
The last Monument of the course ended a UCI World Tour season once again dominated by the Slovenian duo: Pogacar and
Primoz Roglic
.
Continuous ambushes
This Saturday, in the mountainous classic Lombardy, the six ports prior to the arrival in Bergamo notably punished a platoon that traveled without rest. With a different route to the 2020 edition, leaving Como and passing through the hermitage of
Madonna del Ghisallo
as the first major obstacle, the test started with numerous and continuous ambushes. Succession of attacks until the decisive part of the classic, with the peaks of Ganda and Aperto, the latter a climb just three kilometers from the finish line, with a length of one thousand meters at 7.9% unevenness and with cobbled sections in the beautiful medieval area of Bergamo. In the Passo di Ganda, 38 to the arrival,
Vincenzo Nibali
pressed
and his acceleration served to take down
Remco Evenepoel
from the favorites group. Pogacar responded to the shark with a forceful blow, without reply among the other candidates for victory. Show of the good of the double winner of the Tour de France. Another suicide attack, only available to the gifted.
The UAE leader's offensive, at first, did not worry the pursuers too much, who managed a 45-second margin.
In the absence of 30 kilometers,
Julian Alaphilippe
moved
, escorted by
Alejandro Valverde
, who gave the hunting maneuver to his partner
Fausto Masnada
, who left alone.
Roglic showed some difficulties, but was protected by the Danish
Jonas Vingegaard
.
Adam Yates
,
Bardet
,
Woods
,
Gaudu
traveled with expectation.
No neutralization rate
The Italian, a native of Bergamo, hunted the Slovenian with 15 kilometers to go. Roglic accelerated from behind. The winner of the Tour of Spain has no other option to increase the pace because his compatriot had a 43-second advantage when Bergamo was already peering in from a distance.
Accelerations and braking
, without a constant rhythm of neutralization that benefited Pogacar, who successfully surpassed Masnada in the sprint of two. Valverde was fifth.
The 'Classic of the Dead Leaves' elevated Pogacar, second debutant to prevail in this round.
The first was
Damiano Cunego
, in 2004. In addition, he equaled Merckx and
Moreno Argentin
as winners in Liege and Lombardy in the same year.
Those 1971 and 1972 triumphs of the Cannibal were completed with the Tour de France, another milestone closed by the Slovenian, with 13 wins this season, the same record of
Wout van Aert
and Roglic.
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