Slovenian two-time Tour de France
winner and two-time runner-up celebrated his first Giro d'Italia
win by eating his first carbonara in Rome after revealing that
the classic Roman dish was his favourite meal.
Pogacar, 25, who is bidding to be the first rider since Marco
Pantani in 1998 to do the Giro-Tour double, had the celebratory
dish at Eataly Ostiense after seeing Rome for the first time
when he crossed the finish line almost 10 minutes in front of
Colombia's Daniel Daniel Martinez and 10:24 ahead of 2018 Tour
winner Geraint Thomas, the Welsh veteran, on Sunday.
Pogacar, who has been likened to Eddie the Cannibal Merckx, did
not say where he developed his taste for carbonara but told
journalists he was looking forward to trying to wrest the Grand
Boucle from Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard who bested him in the
last two years after the Slovenian ace won in 2020 and 2021.
"I'm a bit tired, but still very psyched. I think I still need a
bit of time to understand what has been the best moment," said
the rider, who dominated on all kinds of stages in the Giro.
He said it had been "great" to give Slovenia its second straight
Giro win after Primož Roglič last year.
He said he might take on the three Grand Tours including the
Vuelta a Espana "some time in the future" but "for the moment
I'm just thinking of the Tour, and then I'm aiming for the
worlds in Zurich.
"We'll see."
'Pogi' won six stages in this year's Giro, something only
achieved by sprinters in this millennium, and five of them in
the pink jersey, a feat only accomplished before by Merckx, the
all-time great to whom he is now being compared.
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