A year ago at this point in life Marc Soler was watching the Tour on TV from his home in Andorra. He lasted as long as it took an unconscious to assault the platoon with a banner in which he greeted his grandparents. The one that the good woman messed up on Breton roads. All to the ground and the Catalan runner, then in the Movistar, took the worst part. As if he were a hero at the stroke of a pedal, he reached the finish line lagging behind and with both arms broken. goodbye to tours and in the same year in which another fall had separated him from the Turn.
Now he has a teammate named Tadej Pogacar and who is not only the leader of the UEA but also the leader of the Tour. He is the boss, the one who has already put the fear in the body to all the opponents, on Thursday on a slope that was not from another world and this Friday in the Vosges, in much more consistent territory. And there it is to usually dothe ‘noi de Vilanova’, to whom a few years ago they placed not only the label of super leader but also the replacement of a Spanish cycling team that saw the retirement of Alberto counter and that he was preparing for the last years of glory of Alexander Valverde.
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The role of leader does not go with Mark. “I am very happy working for Tadej. I never said that I was a leader”, he repeats. This year he changed the blue Movistar uniform for the white of the Emirates and prepared from January to June to become one of the main protectors of Pogacar. Because although the Slovenian star gives the sensation that he is self-sufficient and manages on his own in the Tour, he needs assistants, those who pull the car, as they say in cycling language, runners like to usually do that just as they did this Friday they are capable of putting the backpack of effort on their backs and imposing a devilish pace from behind to control without the help of anyone that the day’s break did not go beyond a time that would later be impossible to counteract for his boss and at the same time a yellow sweater. And the truth is that the escape did not come by 200 metersbut not to have thrown, again and again to usually dothe winner in the Superplanche would not have been his teammate and leader but one of the members of the breakaway, surely Lennard Kamna.
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to usually do he will do the same again in the two main events next week in the Alps, first in the Granon and then in Alpe d’Huez. There you will want to shine again Pogacarencouraged this Friday at the Superplanche des Belles Filles by his parents, who came to the Tour route to give their presence an official character to the new foundation to raise funds against cancer that the Slovenian star has created.