The outstanding Slovenian cyclist is putting the hype in perspective as he prepares for his debut in historic Grand Tour
The 24-year-old has proven himself to be versatile in his short career to date.
Tadej Pogacar won the Liege-Bastogne-Liege bike race on Sunday thanks to a solo break 30km from home launched on a steep climb and sustained to the finish line. Ahead of Pogacar's Giro d'Italia and Tour de France double bid the 25-year-old Slovenian blew the opposition away with a maverick acceleration that none could answer on the 254km race in the Ardennes forests that marks the end of the spring classics.Billed as a duel between Pogacar and winner of Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders Mat
The Scot was Britain’s most decorated Olympian at the time.