Tadej Pogacar enters the pantheon of the Tour de France by winning it for the fifth time

Tadej Pogacar is now sitting at the same table as Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain, the five cyclists with five Tour de France titles in history, stripped years ago due to doping of the seven that American Lance Armstrong wore in yellow in Paris. In the French capital, today the Slovenian has once again made history in a professional career of his that barely finds similarities with the cannibal Merckx. Like the Belgian then, the Slovenian now crushes his rivals without mercy. Yes, now in France in the most important stage race that exists, but also in the five Monuments of cycling, four of which are already in his possession, some repeated, and only pending to emerge victorious sometime in Paris-Roubaix. Or in the World Championships, double champion Tadej.

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At 27 years old, Pogacar is the first to reach five Tours among the greatest in history. At his age, he possesses 8 Monuments and 2 World Championships for a total of 16 major victories if Tour, Giro, and Vuelta are added (the latter he has never conquered and perhaps this season he could try). Only Merckx, who accumulated 22 victories in total in those categories, has quantitatively more than him.

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In this Sunday’s stage, the last of the Tour, shortened in mileage at the request of the security forces (89 instead of 133 kms), concentrated with their personnel to help extinguish the fires near Bordeaux, the cyclists crossed crowded streets on the climb to Montmartre, popularized thanks to the Olympic Games and replicated by the Tour since last year thanks to its success. In that setting, the best cyclists in the world, led by Pogacar, but also Matthieu Van der Poel and Remco Evenepoel, captured spectacular images. Van der Poel took the last stage of the Tour in an agonizing sprint, after riding the last seven kilometers alone with Pogacar, with a small lead of a few seconds gained in Montmartre. A stage for history in a Tour for history, won by Pogacar and in which Mads Pedersen is the points classification champion, Richard Carapaz the mountains classification champion, and Isaac del Toro the best young rider.

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