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«It went pretty well, but I can still improve…». Our Martian is like this. He likes to surprise us. He does something almost impossible, like beating a specialist like Filippo Ganna in a time trial, and instead of being happy with such an exploit, he goes on to say that he can do even better.
In short, it makes us understand that its limit has not been reached. That already from the next uphill finish on this Saturday 11th May in Prato di Tivio, he can invent another one of his own. And give a further shake to these poor devils, like Martinez (second at 2’36”) and Thomas (third at 2’46”), who should put a spoke in his wheels to prevent him from arriving in the pink jersey in Rome on next May 26th.
An impossible mission due to manifest inferiority. They, the adversaries, must move like humans, with the fragility of us bipeds. The Martian, on the other hand, moves as a Martian, overcoming, laughing and barely sweating, our fragile terrestrial limits.
Let’s try to summarize. In the first time trial of the Giro, 40.6 kilometers from Foligno to Perugia, Tadej Pogacar not only sets the best time, overtaking Filippo Ganna by 17 seconds (who also performed an amazing performance), but also wins the pink jersey by giving his team a tremendous blow. ranking opponents who slipped to over two and a half minutes behind the Slovenian with the metallic quiff.
A thrilling ending
Beyond the gap, what is most striking is the superhuman ease with which Pogacar also wins in a specialty, the time trial, which should be the prerogative of specialists like Ganna and company. It’s true that the Uae captain overturned the result in the last 6 and a half km where the route, after 32 flat km at full throttle, suddenly climbed up a climb with gradients of up to 16%. However, Pogacar’s exploit is equally sensational because before the sprint began, his delay from Ganna was a good 47 seconds. A not negligible gap which however the Martian drank like a crodino adding another 17″.
