UAE Team Emirates rider Tadej Pogacar has added the Giro di Lombardia crown to his Tour de France title to continue his remarkable year in the saddle.
The Slovenian held off a pursuit from local boy Fausto Masnada to claim victory in Bergamo after winning a second straight Tour de France as well as Liege-Bastogne-Liege this season.
Two cycling 'monuments' and the Tour in one season is a historic feat which puts the 23-year-old alongside esteemed company such as Eddy Merckx and Fausto Coppi.
He is also the first to add the Lombardia to the Tour in the same year since Frenchman Bernard Hinault in 1979.
Pogacar made his move in the Passo di Ganda, more than 30km from the finish line, and barely looked back, easily beating the Bergamo-born Masnada in a two-man sprint after the Deceuninck-Quick Step rider had joined him in the descent.
Adam Yates claimed the final spot on the podium after sprinting ahead of some of the sport's biggest names, including in-form Primoz Roglic and world champion Julian Alaphilippe.
“It's crazy to finish the season like this. I'm without words,” Pogacar said after an exciting duel with Masnada.
“First, I thought when I attacked that someone would come with me. I guess it was so hard a race before that everyone was still thinking about the final. I just went solo.
“Every victory is important especially this one, I have been dreaming to start Lombardia and to race with the best here in Italy. Now I'm here and I took the victory.”
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There are numerous success stories of teen businesses that were created in college dorm rooms and other modest circumstances. Below are some of the most recognisable names in the industry:
- Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and his friends started Facebook when he was a 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate.
- Dell: When Michael Dell was an undergraduate student at Texas University in 1984, he started upgrading computers for profit. He starting working full-time on his business when he was 19. Eventually, his company became the Dell Computer Corporation and then Dell Inc.
- Subway: Fred DeLuca opened the first Subway restaurant when he was 17. In 1965, Mr DeLuca needed extra money for college, so he decided to open his own business. Peter Buck, a family friend, lent him $1,000 and together, they opened Pete’s Super Submarines. A few years later, the company was rebranded and called Subway.
- Mashable: In 2005, Pete Cashmore created Mashable in Scotland when he was a teenager. The site was then a technology blog. Over the next few decades, Mr Cashmore has turned Mashable into a global media company.
- Oculus VR: Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR in June 2012, when he was 19. In August that year, Oculus launched its Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $1 million in three days. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion two years later.
