Tadej Pogacar’s Rare Double Ambition At The Tour de France 2024

Tadej Pogačar’s ambitious attempt at the Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double in 2024. This feat hasn’t been achieved since Marco Pantani’s ride in 1998. Look at the key details, historical context, and Pogačar’s preparation as he aims to join the elite group of riders who have conquered this ultimate test of endurance and skill. #TDF More race info here: https://flosports.link/4esZhSA

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how many cyclists in history have done the J Italia and tur to France double winning both grand Tours in the same years and how difficult will it be for t pachar to pull it off 26 years after the last person was able to do so I’m going to break down tat pacha’s victory in the tour of Italy the Jed Italia in May and what it’s going to take for him in the Tour of France and the historical context of the double if he were to pull it off the Jalia followed by the tur of France in the same year let’s dive into those key details and what makes the challenge so Monumental his goal tat pachar the Slovenian is to become the first jir Italia tur of France double winner since the Italian the baldheaded pirate Marco Pani in 1998 in just a little bit of a historical context only seven writers have completed the double in cycling history Italian fto copi Jack the Frenchman the great Eddie MKS the Belgian Bernardino Steven roach who interestingly went on to win the World Championships later in the year the triple Miguel enderin the Spaniard big Mig and of course Marco Pani in 1998 26 years ago tat pachar well he has the Palmar he has the skills to pay the bills the 2020 T France winner surprised Primos ragit to take the victory surprising him on the final TT he backed it up again in 2021 he of course has gone third in the walta spa and his recent victories those long solo attacks of Strat bian Li bone Le podium in Milano San Remo and of course the jro Italia the curtains closed outside the Rome Coliseum on May 26 since then T pachar has not raced his bike in Anger he had some time to rest he was on the garant Thomas podcast who he beat to third place overall in the jir Italia he arrested then he went to eela 2000 the final Mountain Stage in the tur of France 2024 where he’s doing an altitude Camp to prepare for the tour to France so no racing between the tour of Italy and the Tour of France he going to be on the start line in the tour to France which coincidentally begins in Italy this year in Florence on June 29th a little bit earlier than normal with the Paris Olympics coming up later in the summer the other competitors Remco evapo Primos Ric they’ve been racing and the criter J Jonas vingo he stepped back and he’s going to reappear in the tur of France and he’s going to be T’s number one competitor because remember the Daye won in 2022 and 2023 at the tur of France now T pachar went deep in the jir Italia make no mistake won six stages but you could kind of see at one point in the third week he was a bit backing off to try to reserve some energy not the old school tat pachar who would be attacking at all times the team was trying to help him save energy so we’d have something in reserves for the tur of France a month later so at the T to France he should come out swinging and Swinging hard attacking vingo early because vingo if he’s there could be the strongest Rider but he’s going to be trying to improve as the weeks go on so they’re going to want to put vingo on the ropes early REM coap who’s debuting in the T of France will give t a run for his money he’ll attack early Primos rage well he’ll build in to the tour to France so tat pachar has his work cut out for him because in this tour to France we have several top GC Riders the risk is is that he runs out of energy in the third week in the past Chris FR venzo nibbi have tried for it Tom Duman has gone for it but was only able to Podium in both races Chris FR well his circumstances were different when he went for because he came off that I think it was 2018 J Italia with the win going hard in the final days to pick up the J toala win and then getting to the tur of France running a little bit on fumes so it’s a tough one to match and that’s why it hasn’t been done since 1998 and more recently Riders have started to really hone in to pinpoint certain races throughout the year we see that in the classics and we see that in the grand Tours Tad’s motivation while he always wanted to race the jro Italia he was going to do so early on in his Grand Tour career he went to the tour to France but then he won the 2020 tour to France and since then for him and the team it was all about the tur of France because that’s what’s so important for team UAE Emirates the T to France and the UAE tour their home tour well this year they said okay T you do the jur Italia and try to do it in a unique way the jro and tour double back it up at the tur of France and who knows maybe after he if he does win the tur of France he’ll go on for something that’s never been done the triple winning all three grand Tours in the same year Chris FR did it but not in the same calendar year so we’d reach cycling history matching the greats Eno Ms Miguel lerain Jack anail and he would also achieve the challenge that he set for himself earlier on in the season his personal Drive every Sportsman has it it would be a massive win for T pachar and it would live on forever in his pal Mars but as you can see so few riders in the history of cycling have ever been able to do so tune in this summer for the 20124 tur of France to see if pachar can make history