16 July 2021

Pogacar!

Tadej Pogacar has been a shoo-in to win the Tour de France since early in the race, and has never looked as if he even broke a sweat -- well, perhaps in the heat of Mt Ventoux, but not otherwise. He won the last two mountain stages in the Pyrenees easily. The 22 year-old is the fastest cyclist in this race. At the end of Thursday's stage 18 over the Col du Tourmalet and to a mountain top finish at Luz Ardiden, he had to get on the podium four times: stage winner, KOM leader (polka dot jersey), best young rider (white jersey), and of course overall general classification leader (yellow jersey). 

It is a super-human performance. There is something very special in that water they are drinking in Slovenia. Usually Tour winners are in the mid to late 20s. Heck, Chris Horner won the Vuelta at age 42. Have we ever seen any other cyclist so strong at this young an age? 

Now, someone get that boy a decent cyclist's haircut!


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