Pogacar won his first championship last September, when he became the youngest tour champion in 116 years. He is now the youngest double champion in the game.

In stark contrast to last year’s rookie who had to wait until the penultimate stage to seize the overall lead, Pogaka has been unmatched in this game.

His team is better equipped and more prepared, and Pogacar took over the favourites as easily as an experienced veteran. His supremacy is that in addition to the championship, he also won the title of King of the Mountain and the best young rider jersey.

On Sunday, the leader of the UAE Chiefs team successfully defended his huge lead of 5 minutes and 20 seconds ahead of second place Jonas Vengard in the final stage of the ceremony held on the Champs Elysées. Richard Carapaz finished third in the total score with a time of 7 minutes and 03 seconds.

Vingegaard and Carapaz were the only drivers to finish the race within 10 minutes of the two championships.

“I tried my best, as always, it was enough,” Pogkar said.

Raise your fist to celebrate

Wout van Aert won the 21st stage in a massive sprint. This prevented Mark Cavendish from defeating the great Belgian Eddy Merckx (Eddy Merckx) with a record of 34 victories, which the British sprinter had matched earlier in the race.

The last stop on the mostly flat 108 km starts from Chateau on the outskirts of Paris and ends up and down eight laps on the famous avenue.

When they reached the Champs Elysées, Pogacar and his teammates rode at the forefront of the team, and the Slovenian champion raised his fists in the air to celebrate.

When the first acceleration took place, Pogacar’s gestures sent a signal to those struggling to win the prestigious stage victory. But the attackers’ efforts were not rewarded, and the stage ended with a large-scale sprint.

Van Alter is a 26-year-old and versatile Belgian who possesses extraordinary skills on all terrains. He became the first since 1979 to win the sprint, mountain stage and individual time trials in the same tournament. Players.

As for Pogacar, the only crack in his armor appeared in the Mont Ventoux stage of the second week, when he was briefly dropped by Vingegaard during his second ascent of the iconic mountain. But Pogacar showed calm and composure that day to grab his opponent and unscathed.

Aside from that panic, Pogacar’s ride is flawless.

After an amazing performance in the first time trial, he was in a class of his own in the Alps and took the lead in the old-fashioned long-distance offense in bad weather. Then, he ended the demolition work in the Pyrenees with two famous stage victories, becoming the fourth driver in the history of the tour to win consecutive championships in the largest cycling race.

Praise offensive mentality

Even the five-time tour champion Merck, widely regarded as the greatest champion of all time, was impressed.

“I saw the new’cannibal’ in him,” said Merkex, who earned the nickname for his ruthless will to victory. “Of course he can win the Tour de France more than five times.”

Pogacar has won praise for his offensive mentality and his performance in all types of competitions. This season, he linked his first tour victory to the UAE Tour, Tirenno-Adriatico and the famous Liege-Bastogne-Liege day trip.

Gianetti was formerly the manager of Saunier Duval. Riccardo Ricco is the team of Italian driver Riccardo Ricco. He tested positive for the blood-enhancing drug CERA in 2008. He is also the manager of Juan Jose Cobo’s Geox-TMX equipment, who was stripped of his 2011 Spanish sanitation championship due to doping violations.

“I can only speak for myself,” Pogacar said. “When I met Mauro, he was really good to me. He was a super good person. I believe that the past is the past. This new cycling sport is a more beautiful sport than before.”

Pogacar insisted that the repeated doping tests he received should be enough to convince doubters that he was clean.

“I think we have a lot of control measures to prove them wrong,” Pogacar said on the first rest day of the game.

Pogacar’s dominance is due to the misfortune of his two biggest rivals, last year’s runner-up Primoz Roglic and former Tour champion Geraint Thomas, who suffered a crash in the first week of the race and never recovered. More importantly, the 2019 champion Egan Bernal skipped this year’s tour after winning the Giro d’Italia in May this year. The Colombian climber is only 24 years old, has excellent timing ability, and should be Pogacar’s main competitor in the next few years.

At the same time, Pogacar will fly to the Tokyo Olympics, where he will become a popular candidate for the road race gold medal.

“Anyone who can follow Tadej will be close to victory,” Van Alter said.