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Tadej Pogacar he was the overall and undisputed winner of the 2024 Giro d’Italia. It remains to be seen whether the leader of UAE Team Emirates will be able to maintain the same level of dominance at the next Tour de France, but there are those who are already ready to bet on the young Slovenian. As Lance Armstrong.
“It really seemed like simple training for him at certain times. Only in Livigno did he seem to go slightly over the limit” claims Armstrong in his podcast “The Move”, together with Johan Bruyneel. «Wherever he starts he wants to win. I would hate to race against him.”
«He actually won the Giro with one leg. Jonas Vingegaard only has five weeks to be ready for the Tour… It will be very difficult” continues the American, doubting riders of the caliber of Primoz Roglic And Remco EvenepoeL. «He knows how to sprint, go uphill, on cobblestones, do a time trial. He has a great team. Only bad luck can stop him. His values are from another planet.”
Also Bruyneel he says he is more than impressed, but not surprised. «It’s sad about the competition in the Giro, but that dominance was impressive. I saw a lot of statements about it being boring. But Pogacar is simply the best runner around. Furthermore, there were no runners capable of competing with him.”.
