RELENTLESS TADEJ POGACAR WINS FIFTH TOUR DE FRANCE TO EQUAL RECORD

Slovene becomes fifth rider to win five Tours Eddy Merckx: ‘He’ll soon break our record’ Tadej Pogacar took a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France on Sunday, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard… In a thrilling finale to the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel took his second stage win of the race on the Champs-Élysees, fending off the pursuing pack of sprinters by a tyre’s width, after breaking clear with Pogacar on…

Sport | The Guardian reports that slovene becomes fifth rider to win five Tours Eddy Merckx: ‘He’ll soon break our record’ Tadej Pogacar took a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France on Sunday, joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard…

The report adds: In a thrilling finale to the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel took his second stage win of the race on the Champs-Élysees, fending off the pursuing pack of sprinters by a tyre’s width, after breaking clear with Pogacar on…

Merckx, widely considered the greatest-ever cyclist due to the breadth of his achievements beyond the Tour itself, believes Pogacar will now go on to win a sixth Tour.

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