You already have it. The rainbow is yours. It was one of the few titles missing in Tadej Pogacar, but the Slovenian rider can now boast of being world road champion.
Pogacar is a cult cyclist, a vintage racer. One of those who will be remembered over the years for what he did during his sporting career. He was the big favorite to win gold in Zurich, Everyone knew he was going to attack on one of the slopes of the final circuit, but no one managed to stop him.
100 kilometers from the finish line, Tadej Pogacar surprised and broke the race into a thousand pieces. Then begins an impressive performance, one of the greatest in recent times and surely the best of the Slovenian’s career, and that says a lot after everything he has done during these wonderful years.
🌈AT YOUR FEET, DON TADEJ POGACAR!!!
😵 What a great way to win for the Slovenian, new cycling world champion after a suicide attack 100 km from the finish line #Zurich2024
O’Connor and Van der Poel, world silver and bronze; Enric Mas, eighth pic.twitter.com/Luc0u9Qhor
– Télédeporte (@teledeporte) September 29, 2024
This triumph places Olympus directly in “Pogi.” The same season, he was proclaimed champion of Tour of Italychampion of Tour de France and world champion. An unattainable feat that they only managed to equalize Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche throughout history.
Pogacar dazzled the world, left the thousands and thousands of spectators gathered in the ditches speechless and once again garnered all the praise. He is an incomparable runner, and throughout the year he will wear this rainbow that distinguishes the best on the planet for success. Van der Poel.
Tadej Pogacar celebrates his victory at the 2024 Cycling World Cup in Zurich.
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a work of art
What Tadej Pogacar did in Zurich will be a long time to forget. We rarely see such distant attacks – even when talking about the Slovenian – but going 100 kilometers from the finish line and in the middle of the World Cup are big words. Almost implausible, in fact.
The weather was good for the first time since Zurich for several days. Without the slightest trace of rain, the sun was a wonderful traveling companion to witness one of the greatest exhibitions of the World Cups.
There were premature and significant abandonments which conditioned the race, such as those of Alaphilippe, Skjelmose, Pello Bilbao, Mikel Landa or Almeida. Nothing, however, would change the three-way fight that everyone wanted to see between Pogacar, Evenepoel and Van der Poel.
𝙎𝙄 𝙋𝙊𝙂𝘼𝘾𝘼𝙍 𝙉𝙊 𝙀𝙓𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙀𝙍𝘼, 𝙃𝘼𝘽𝙍𝙄́𝘼 𝙌𝙐 𝙀 𝙄𝙉𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙇𝙀 🪄
The Slovenian attacks 100 kilometers from the finish line! and releases Evenepoel and Van der Poel by surprise.
📺 You see it in @Eurosport_ES 1 and @StreamMaxES. #Zurich2024 pic.twitter.com/20Z3jQT2Ea
– Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) September 29, 2024
However, this expected war broke out when 100 kilometers from the finish line the Slovenian showed his power, unleashed watts and made it clear in case there was any doubt that he was the best today hui and one of the best of all time. He left on one of the tracks while Remco And Matthew Either they resisted or they were unable to follow him.
Before, he met Tratnik, who did a good job for several miles, then tracked down the escapee who still survived. The escabechina continued. Just Sivakov, partner in UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, He knew how to resist her, but ended up giving in as logic dictated.
The solo adventure was spectacular. Belgium and the Netherlands did the rest behind him, but Tadej managed to gain more than a minute’s lead and as the kilometers passed, it became clear that they were not going to be able to catch up.
Tadej Pogacar, as he enters the finish line of the World Cup.
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Not even when the Slovenian had a small crisis in the final moments, showing fatigue after so many kilometers alone. Sometimes Pogacar is down to earth. However, behind this there was not enough understanding.
Tadej crossed the finish line triumphantly, with plenty of time to savor what he had just done. Pure history. Behind O’Connor He took advantage of the confusion and won the silver medal alone, while in the group sprint Van der Poel won the bronze medal.
Enric Mas was the best Spaniard. He finished eighth, without options in the sprint of this group, but he entered among the best and left a very good feeling. At least it highlighted Spain, like Roger Adrià, who was very active.
