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☆ Tadej Pogačar: ‘The odds are pretty good to have five Tours de France, but that’s not the goal I want’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“When I was younger, I was never thinking that I can win a stage in the Tour de France,” Pogačar tells CNN Sport. “After I won the first Tour de France – because that’s an ultimate goal in cycling – everything is more or less a bonus. “But three now, three Tours de France and maybe 10 more years of my career if I’m well. That includes one-day classics, which require an explosivity normally sacrificed by Tour de France contenders in favor of endurance. He said last year that Pogačar can “win everything” and called the young rider a “blessing” for cycling fans.

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☆ Tadej Pogačar completes dominant Tour de France victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A certain nonchalance has marked Tadej Pogačar’s ruthless overall victory at this year’s Tour de France, a race he has dominated from start to finish, accomplishing feats not achieved for more than a quarter of century. His fifth and sixth stage victories of the race followed on Saturday and Sunday, the biggest haul for any rider since 2009 and an enormous amount for a general classification rider like Pogačar. Not since 1948 has a rider won five mountain stages in a single edition of the race like Pogacar did this year. Their rivalry has shaped every edition of the Tour de France since 2021 when Denmark’s Vingegaard emerged as an unlikely challenger to a rampant Pogačar. Only young Remco Evenepoel, making his Tour de France debut, could remain within touching distance of these two, eventually finishing in third place, 9:18 behind Pogačar.

Persons: Marco Pantani, ”, Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark’s Vingegaard, Vingegaard, Pogačar, Marco Bertorello, Remco Evenepoel, Richard Carapaz, Girmay Organizations: CNN, de France, Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, Slovenian, Vingegaard, Pogačar Locations: Nice, Florence, AFP, Pogačar

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