2023-07-21 11:44:56
” I want to go back home. “His words, Tadej Pogacar, double winner of the Tour de France (2020 and 2021), would have held them to his companion Urska Zigart, on July 5 on the evening of the 5th stage linking Pau to Laruns, the day before his famous attack on the climb to Cauterets-Cambasque. A highlight of the Tour de France 2023 which could therefore never have existed.
Interviewed in the NOS media, Urska Zigart revealed that her boyfriend wanted to leave the Big Loop to be by her side. The latter, who was participating in the Tour of Italy, had suffered a fall that day.
“You’re not going home, it’s the Tour”
“He called me after the finish to ask me how it went, I told him that I hadn’t finished the race, he was immediately worried,” she told the Dutch media. The UAE Team Emirates rider has expressed the idea of leaving the Tour de France to be by his side. “You’re not going home, it’s the Tour,” she would have replied to her companion, according to her statements to NOS.
Distanced by more than 1’47’ at that time, Pogacar had achieved an exceptional performance, on July 6, in the Hautes-Pyrénées to come back 0’24’ from the yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard at the end of the 145 km between Tarbes and Cauterets-Cambasque. Since then, the Dane has soared in the general classification and is 7′35′ ahead of his Slovenian rival before the 19th stage between Moirans-en-Montagne and Poligny.
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