How Tadej Pogacar overturned the Tour de France 2020 How Tadej Pogacar overturned the Tour de France 2020

How Tadej Pogacar overturned the Tour de France 2020 How Tadej Pogacar overturned the Tour de France 2020

Tour de France from the magazine Tour de France from the magazine Followed by the car of his UAE Emirates team and his mechanic Vasile Morari, Tadej Pogacar has just changed his bike. He will fly over the time trial at the Planche des Belles Filles. (Christian Lax/The Team)

September 19, 2020, penultimate stage of the Tour, Lure-La Planche des Belles Filles: Tadej Pogacar pulls off the incredible performance of snatching the yellow jersey from Primoz Roglic, in the lead for ten days. Illustrated by Christian Lax*, the story, by those who lived it, of this stopwatch that changed everything.

Dominique Issartel updated on July 1, 2021 at 3:09 p.m.comment

Last Christmas, when 71-year-old Odette Duprez found a greeting card in her mailbox from Allan Peiper, Australian sporting director of the UAE team, thanking her for being "a small gem in the victory of Tadej Pogacar on the Tour de France”, she could not help but feel a touch of emotion. Pride too, she who, younger, in her small village of Haute-Saône, in Plancher-les-Mines, dreamed "of competing". “I loved cycling but there were no mixed clubs around here and as I came from a family of seven children, my parents could not afford to take me further. But I won the Montée du Ballon d'Alsace! At 12, my ear was glued to the transistor for the Tour de France; those were the Poulidor years. »

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