Tadej Pogačar wrapped up another historic season of success, winning Il Lombardia for a record fifth consecutive time, but he remained as humble and grounded as ever.
Pogačar revealed that Ernesto Colnago called Eddy Merckx behind the Il Lombardia podium, and the two greats of the sport exchanged a few personal words, but he again shrugged off comparisons with the Cannibal.
“I don’t like this kind of comparison. It was cool to talk to Eddy, but nobody likes to be compared with somebody else all the time,” Pogačar said.
Pogačar has now won ten Monuments and 108 career victories, but statistics mean little to him.
“When I was just a kid and dreaming to be a professional, I didn’t even know what a Monument was,” he revealed.
“We were just dreaming to be as cool like the Tour de France riders and to maybe someday be at the start. That was the dream. I feel extremely lucky that I managed to come so far. It was never imaginable what we would achieve.”
Pogačar played down being different or better than anyone else. “Everybody’s unique in their own way,” he suggested.
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