Tour de France: “We always pity the runner who cracks”, finally human, Pogacar has not lost everything

2023-07-22 07:27:11

France remains the country of Raymond Poulidor. She loves gorgeous losers. With Tadej Pogacar, she discovers a specimen of great beauty. The Slovenian cracked in the third week by showing unimaginable flaws for such a winning machine. Ravaged by exhaustion at the top of the Col de la Loze, the double winner lost the Tour de France. But he won a treasure perhaps even more precious to the public: a humanity. A champion who cracks, who shows his distress, is sometimes even more beautiful than a yellow jersey.