Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar produced one of the greatest performances of cycling year after year, felt victorious in Switzerland to clinch his first road world championship with a brave initiative from 100 kilometers from the end. Pogacar rose to the ranks of the most successful cyclists after the daredevil overtaking which challenged Remco Evenepoel, for another. This young man became one of the three most magnificent cyclists Stephen Roche and Eddy Merckx, when at the age of 26 years he became the winner of the world road championship, the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia cyclic performance Triple Crown. The only other female in succeeding this incredible feat was the Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten.
Pogacar’s most recent success will be remembered as one of cycling’s most daring and rampantly bold performances. He began the assault that put the sport’s top ranked cyclists, Olympic gold winner Remco Evenepoel and world champion Mathieu van der Poel on the back foot with a hundred kilometers to go on the gruelling 273.9km course in Zurich.
The final victory belonged to Pogacar who attacked with a fifty kilometer a distance to go leaving the rest behind with the help of a bike of fellow Slovenian and a member of the day’s breakaway Jan Tratnik. He was to cross the line at the end of 6 hours 27 minutes and 30 seconds, 34 seconds in front of Australia’s Ben O’Connor, who321 escaped form the chasing pack to claim the silver. Van der Poel swiftly finished at the third position; the goal-scorer borne out of the 21 British contenders was the 21-year-old Scottish Oscar Onley who placed 16th.
Pogacar’s rivals admitted they could not believe what they had just witnessed. “I honestly didn’t expect [him to attack] so early,” Evenepoel said in his post-race interview to VTM.
“When Mathieu van der Poel and I looked at each other, we thought it was a ‘crazy move’. But Tadej also had a strong rider in front. It’s really exceptional that he was able to stay ahead, because we really didn’t sit still. There’s not much to add to that.”
“It was so tough, it was incredible. After many years fighting for other races I never had the world championships as a clear goal and this year everything went smooth.”
He added: “I cannot believe what just happened. After this kind of season I put a lot of pressure on myself for today, pressure from myself and the team.
“We came here for the victory. I maybe did a stupid attack but I never gave up until the final. It’s incredible.”
Pogacar has been almost invincible during the current season, and he was just perfect today. Nevertheless, he managed to claim six stages during his third successful Tour’s prevalence in addition to clinching his first Giro d’ Italia where the chimed six stages in the event. He also triumphed in ten out of seventeen one-day contests, which included the Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Strade Bianche wins. He barely failed to get the all important World Cup victory but during the season he scored an outstanding 23 wins in total. He might well have triumphed in both the Vuelta a España and the Olympic road race had he entered those competitions.
Not more a domination than versatility, Pogacar succeeded in dispelling doubts about his other abilities this season: on many of cycling’s most tricky and demanding races, he triumphed with similar ease and precision. Each win was more sensational than the other, and this put the opponents into form admitting that there is no aspect of Harvey’s game that they could exploit.
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