2023-07-20 23:03:16
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Bourg-en-Bresse
Updated Thursday, July 20, 2023 – 23:03
The Slovenian, who never thought of giving up, had problems digesting the food. Marc Soler, the colleague who saved him, recounts the moments of crisis: “I kept telling him to keep fighting, not to collapse”
Pogacar, in the salida of Moutier.MARTIN DIVISEKEFE
The day after the hecatomb, a strange calm reigned on the UAE Emirates bus. Under the Moutiers sun, just a few kilometers from the top of La Loze, still in the Alps, mechanics, technicians, cyclists and team members swarmed over what had happened, looking for explanations where perhaps there were none. He was very fucked up, they tell of Tadej, always the soul of the group, the guy who encourages the rest with his rap and jokes. Of course he was very sad yesterday afternoon. Who wouldn’t be?, he admits after the stage, already in Bourg en Bresse.
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The legends in cycling can also be explained from the great disasters, those that water heroism to some guys who make suffering their way of advancing. The loser’s pike. wrote Rilke that all art is born from that which has gone to the extreme of an experience, where it is not possible to advance further. TO Pogacar and his charisma will always accompany La Loze as Indurain La Plagne, and in that already recurring image also for those who idolize him despite their frustration with Jonas Vingegaard also forever be by your side Marc Soler -without him I would have lost the podium, he pushed me to the limit-, his left arm on the back of the fallen colossus, his whispers of encouragement, his effort to try to minimize damage.
We have held so many concentrations together, we have shared a room…, pronounces the Catalan after the signature control, a guy devoted to the cause, who has won over the directors of the UAE despite the fact that at first he was under suspicion for those controversies in his last days at Movistar. It was a bad day and that’s it. Everyone can fail, he is human. What happens is that he has spoiled us, he confesses to EL MUNDO at the start of the stage.
Soler and Pogacar, in the meta of Courchevel.MARTIN DIVISEKEFE
Pogacar had a good night after a bird that had to do with some stomach problem, although he neither vomited nor slept badly nor did he show any symptoms of illness, as this newspaper has been able to learn. He himself acknowledged that he followed the eating plan proposed by the nutritionist Gorka Prieto, that he did not stop eating or drinking -a mistake recognized after his other famous bad day, a year ago in Granon-, but that the energy did not reach his legs. The crash at the beginning of the stage was never used as an excuse, but long before he lost contact with Vingegaard, the Slovenian had already warned his team that something was wrong. He told us that he did not have a good feeling, that we should not make any offensive approach. We discarded the aggressive tactic very soon, because it did not have its day, he says. Josean Fernndez Matxin, who also admits that this change in mentality, together with the blow of the time trial on Tuesday, could have taken its toll on Pogacar. And that he assures that, despite the enormous pain, the idea of leaving never crossed his mind.
With his pale face in which some herpes on his lip have been attracting attention for a few days, a symptom of low defenses (it is quite common in the squad), his bare chest and his suffering gesture, Pogacar pronounced the famous I’m dead, it was over and he got rid of the earpiece. At that moment, the UAE activated plan B. It sought to reinforce its position on the podium with Adam Yates and pair for it to Motherand made Soler accompany Tadej on his ordeal to Courchevel.
Question.- Marc, what is said to you at those moments?
Answer.- You try to cheer him up, it’s the only thing you can do. I told him, ‘you have to suffer, Tadej’. He repeated to her not to break down, that she also had to fight for second place. Let him keep fighting, waste as little time as possible. I don’t think I’m a psychologist, you just help with what you can.
At night, Pogacar was sad, but above all very tired from the effort, says Marc. Perhaps he did not have his usual joy, but he never loses his smile or his manners, confirms Matxin.
Nor were there many spirits in the team to think about objectives from here to Paris, in that stage on Saturday in Le Markstein that Pogi intends as a reward for his stupendous gregarious. If he regains strength. The same triumphant Vingegaard, a few meters away, praises his defeated rival: he is still the best in the world. You have to be honest, the goal is to keep the podium. We’re going to spend the day and we’ll see, Matxin says goodbye.
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