Tadej Pogacar falls, gets up – and still wins

Increased forces and a guardian angel. On the former, Tadej Pogacar has been relying for almost year and day.

Since his victory at Strade Bianche in March 2024, the currently most successful cycling professional has participated in eleven tours and an anniversary race and won nine of them (including Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and World Cup). In order to be able to finish the first endurance test of the 2025 season at the prestigious Tuscan classic Strade Bianche on Saturday, but the Slovenian also needed a guardian angel. At high speed, Pogacar had slipped away with his bike in a left curve, hit the asphalt, on which buttocks slipped on and landed in the ditch. All over in spring for him and his upgraded team UAE Emirates-XRG. Not. Pogacar climbs out of the trench, took the bike, swung on it and already showed that the departure did not end his high altitude. Thanks to the custody grass. The big three of the cycling from recent experiences know how to sing a painful song about how a hard crash in spring questions the big goals for the summer or makes it unattainable. In 2024, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel caught it in the same accident in the Basque Country, in 2023 Pogacar broke the wrist when falling at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. None of the three stars were then able to win one of the big state tours in those years. “A little worried” Pogacar gave the all -clear on Saturday. Rented on the shoulder, elbow, thighs and knees, he continued his tour. When he was the first to reach the finish at Piazza del Campo in Siena 50 kilometers later with a sovereign lead (1:24 minutes), the 26-year-old said: “For a moment I didn’t know if I was fine. The bike didn’t work, so I had to change it. ” He was “a bit worried” because a fall concerns the body a lot. But he still had enough energy “to finish it”. External content is already activating the competition in mid -March, ahead is: The first tour (UAE Tour) and the first day -to -day race (Strade Bianche) as part of his program has already dominated this cycling all -rounder. Especially since the Hatz has maximum difficulties through the Tuscan hills: if only because of its 3500 altitude to be overcome at a total length of 213 kilometers, but even more because of their 16 gravel passages, which sum up on 80 kilometers, the eponymous white streets. Drivers in dust clouds, duels on narrow streets against the background of the idyllic landscape and enthusiastic fans on the way on the way have given the rank of one of the most important spring classics with 19 shows. Pogacar was waiting for a strong signal for respect and so a crash does not give the competition. During the last two of a total of 5:15 hours, only Tom Pidcock blocked. The Brit (Team Q36.5) even dared to thwart a planned maneuver by Team UAE and Pogacar. The team had struck a merciless pace, which in the peloton could hardly do two dozen professionals. In preparation for the presumably decisive train that Pogacar can settle solo 80 kilometers before the finish – as with his victory with more than three minutes in the previous year. But Pidcock, Strade winner of the year 2023 and Olympic champion in the mountain bike, jumped forward with a hard pace sharpening, forced Pogacar to go along and did a common cause with the world champion. Her companion Connor Swift (team ineos) turned out to be not strong enough on her rear wheels. Then the fall. “I’ve been driving there 20 times in my career. Sometimes you hide, ”said Pogacar, visibly exhausted in a torn work,. PIDCOCK had continued, but then half of respect for the tour winner and half of respect for the long journey to Siena had decided to wait for Pogacar. As the turbo lit during the penultimate, Pidcock could only defend himself a few meters. Despite the fall, Pogacar won 40.7 kilometers per hour with an average record. Next stop on his bike route: Milan-Sanremo on March 22nd. Incidentally, one of the two races that he did not leave as the winner in the past twelve months.

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