Pogacar’s stratospheric record at the start of La Vuelta in Monaco that he had never achieved
Pogacar This Saturday, August 22, he achieved what he had never achieved in his sporting career to date: wearing the red jersey of leader of The Return –who only competed once, in 2019 and finished 3rd overall– and lead the only three-week cycling grand tour that is missing from his excess record.
But, in this desire to improve the Slovenian, Tadej achieved in Monaco something unprecedented for him: dressing in the leader’s jersey of a major team after the first stage. He did not do it even in the five editions of the Tour de France that he won not even in the Giro d’Italia that he conquered.
In the first France’s Tourwho reigned (2020) did not embrace yellow until the penultimate stage, after the remembered exhibition in the Planche des Belles Filles in which he defeated his compatriot Primoz Roglicand the time that was closest to what was achieved yesterday in The Return it was in the 2024 Giro d’Italiain his only participation in the Pink Corsaa season in which he would achieve the Giro and Tour double.
In that edition of the Giro d’Italia, the leader of the UAE Team Emirates she dressed in pink on the second day of the race, in the Oropa Sanctuaryto command the race the remaining 20 days until the end in the city of Rome.
