The most laureate Spanish cyclist in history, the Navarro Miguel Indurainhe admitted Monday in an interview with Efe that Tadej Pogacarwinner of four Tours of France, he is already “close” to the four runners who mark the record of victories of the gala test, although he recalled that the Slovenian has a step left “that is always complicated to climb.”
Indurain, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx y Bernard Hinault They keep the record of triumphs of the gala round with five, although Navarro assumes that Pogacar will soon be next to them in the 'Olympus' of the test.
The Pentacampeón del Tour said that one of the main problems that the Slovenian champion can have is to accuse more “psychological tiredness than physical”, since he pointed out that currently in professional sport, not only in cycling, “it starts very young.”
“Finishing the race before or later depends on the desire you have. But if it is fine and eager, it will be the one who will set the limits to be asked,” argued the Olympic champion against the chrono in Atlanta, after attending the presentation of the great background of the nucle, whose route has designed.
“In our sport you have to make great efforts, train a lot and take care of yourself, what is a high competition sport. But many have mental problems for that tension, overwhelmed, responsibility, since they play bad passes,” said the Navarrese.
Questioned in case you feel identified with the fatigue that begins to manifest PogacarIndurain recalled that cyclists suffer “travel, competition stress and the permanent risk of falls.”
“These are things to be overcome, until you get tired. Some endure more and others, less,” added the Navarrese champion, who insisted on a cyclist “must be convinced of what he does with enthusiasm and desire.”
“He will mark what his sports career is going to be,” added the Navarro, who revealed that he is following the latest cycling tests of the calendar, since they will determine which runners will play the next edition of the Tour of Spain.
“Now we are seeing who is going to arrive and how it will arrive. The tour of Poland is running, in Norway, the return to Burgos … each one is doing a type of preparation,” said the former cyclist.
“We already know that when the return at the end of the season is usually the one who has not gone to the turn, the one who has gone badly the tour … is to see who comes and how it comes and if he takes the exit in Italy butt,” explained the Spanish champion.
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Finally, the Navarrese corridor was not impressed by the speed stockings of the past Tour, something that attributed to technology.
“The sport is changing faster, more intensity, less weight … Everything improves, from the speed to the roads, through the wheels or the material. It is trying to take everything to the limit, but it does not happen only in cycling, but in all sports,” he argued.
In this sense, Indurain recalled that in his corridor stage “we change automatic pedals, counterreloj drums and cases.”
“We made the improvements that could be with what there was. Today are aerodynamics and electronics … It is a continuous improvement, each in their sport,” he said. EFE
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