The Tour de France Femmes concluded yesterday, but it continues to give us some gems. Not only for the spectacularity of the race, the rivalry between the winner Demi Vollering and second-placed overall Kasia Niewiadoma, the show that the world's best female cyclists offered us (including Italian champion Elisa Longo Borghini, third in GC) but also for what happened on the roadside over the last 10 days.
Among the many fans who gathered, Belgian TV Sporza intercepted one truly special spectator, the boyfriend of Urska Zigart, the Slovenian rider from Ag Insurance - Soudal to whom the classic questions were directed as a "companion of...". Nothing surprising, except that the interviewee is the most well-known and successful cyclist of the modern era, if not of all time, who lent himself to this amusing and sweet little scene at the same time.
«We often train on these roads. Every now and then she drops me» Tadej Pogacar confides at the start of the final stage to Nice, to whom until the very end he is not asked what his name is. As a response he hears: «Ah, you're a rider too? I wonder how difficult it must be to be alongside a cyclist of Urska's level... She'll be able to give you lots of advice». The 5-time Tour de France winner nods along with the joke. And, in the end, he receives a special jersey as a gift with a photo of his girlfriend and the acronym HAB, the masculine version of WAG, the term commonly used to indicate wives and girlfriends of famous athletes.
Pogi laughs amused and puts it on immediately to cheer on his Urska. It's probably the interview that has amused him the most ever...
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