Press reviews: “Pogacar looked like an awestruck child”

FRANCE: Le Parisien – Aujourd'hui en France: “The Champs were Slovenian: The Slovenian flags were brought out on the Champs-Élysées yesterday to welcome the national hero (and) Tour winner Tadej Pogacar.”

The team: “Young and carefree. Just like Laurent Fignon in 1983, 21-year-old Tadej Pogacar made history yesterday by winning the Tour on his first participation.”

Le Figaro: “Tadej Pogacar – lightning-like rise. The young Slovenian, surprise winner of the Tour de France, is proving to be one of the symbols of an uninhibited new wave.” GREAT BRITAIN: The Guardian: “Masked team presentations in Nice, positive Covid-19 test for the Tour Director...it's been a strange Tour, but the winner looks like he's come to lead an exciting young crop of cyclists remain. (...) The youngest Tour de France winner in a century rode into the City of Light at sunset on Sunday, looking like an awe-struck child from head to toe.”

Primoz Roglic showed himself to be a great sprinter and a good loser. © APA/afp / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

The Independent: “Tour de France rookie Tadej Pogacar won cycling's prestige race a day before his 22nd birthday, becoming the second-youngest winner of the 117-year-old event, which defied France's worsening coronavirus epidemic this year and she mastered.”

The Telegraph: “Tadej Pogacar’s victory is a triumph – as is the complete holding of the race even during the pandemic.” SWITZERLAND: The New Zurich Times: “Tadej Pogacar wins the Tour de France – his achievements are spectacular, but not supernatural. The Slovenian faces general doping suspicions. That’s unfair, his achievements stand up to critical analysis.” SPAIN: Brand: “Tadej Pogaçar, it can’t be anyone else. Champion of the Tour, wearer of the yellow jersey, although he only wore it on one day, the last, of the entire race. Stage victory in the Pyrenees (Laruns), Alps (Grand Colombier) and La Planche des Belles Filles with a time trial for the history of the Tour de France. (...) Fantastic. How many tours can this boy go on?” ITALY: The Sports Gazette: “Tadej has his fate written in his name, which means brave heart. The young Slovenian from Komenda, a small village in Alta Carniola, won the 107th Tour de France. With heart and class he took revenge on the wind that had been his enemy and yesterday he overturned the Tour and deceived the stopwatch on the 36 kilometers from Lure to the Planche des Belles Filles. The ones (kilometers) that changed his life forever.”

With his face contorted in pain, Tadej Pogacar crossed the finish line after his sensational time trial on Saturday. © APA/afp / CHRISTOPHE ENA

The print: “The Slovenian phenomenon, 22 years old, wins a Tour de France full of young talent. It is a generation of phenomena. The Tour has crowned the extremely young Tadej Pogacar as its king, the great discovery of the 107th Tour, where everyone expected a duel between the other Slovenian Roglic and last year's winner Bernal. NETHERLANDS: de Volkskrant: Under the heading “Schizophrenic tour in an empty city”: “The tour of 2020 ended in the same schizophrenic conditions as it began three weeks ago on the Côte d'Azur. While the number of infections in France continued to increase - there are now regularly more than 10 per day - the participants drove from one Corona hotspot (Nice) to another (Paris)... Despite the spectacular outcome of the Slovenian-Slovenian duel “The most memorable achievement of the Tour was probably the fact that the peloton even made it to Paris.”

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Press reviews: “Pogacar looked like an awestruck child”

International media commented on the sensational victory of Slovenian Tadej Pogacar in the 107th Tour de France on Sunday as follows:

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