He has yet to put it like that himself, but if Tadej Pogačar is looking on his upcoming ride in Liège-Bastogne-Liège partly as a chance to complete some unfinished business, nobody would be that surprised.
After all, last year the oldest Monument of them all was where everything that had gone so right for Pogačar until that point suddenly went askew. Some 85 kilometres into the race, a chance entanglement in a crash, sparked when EF Education-EasyPost racer Mikkel Honore suffered a double puncture on a downhill, saw the Slovenian fall heavily.
The most far-reaching part of the domino effect of consequences only emerged in the third week of the Tour de France, with Pogačar’s memorable radio message to his team on the Col du Loze – ‘I’m gone, I’m dead.’ That was the final confirmation that after three months of less-than-perfect preparation as a result of the crash, his bid to counter Jonas Vingegaard’s second straight victory had run out of steam.
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