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https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tadej-pogacar-not-focused-on-making-history-alongside-coppi-and-merckx/?utm_content=cyclingnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR2YPMRT3wmygk8c7WkrsuxlhgODoXCdCYi9zyb-HNZmWsHryfA784G_qB4 Il Lombardia winner says, 'I just like ride my bike, going to races and giving my all' By Stephen Farrand  T adej Pogacar ( UAE Team Emirates ) seems to win the biggest races in cycling with ease, racing on instinct, simply for the thrill of it all. An Il Lombardia victory completed the 23-year-old Slovenian's exceptional 2021 season, giving him a place in history alongside Fausto Coppi and Eddy Merckx for winning two Monuments and the Tour de France in the same season . Yet he insisted that he is not that interested in making history. "I just like riding my bike, going to races and giving my all. If I make history or not, I just enjoy it. I don't think about what's going to be. I jus

by Stephen Farrand Procycling UK - Issue 282, June 2021 Maurizio Evangelista was a leading cycling journalist in the 1980s and early 1990s and then created the successful Vitesse communications agency . Now he is the Tour of the Alps race director ; it’s the third and seemingly hardest chapter of his life in the sport. Evangelista wrote for the Corriere dello Sport newspaper, which always loved to compete against bigger rivals La Gazzetta dello Sport . After he created Vitesse, he managed the Saeco media office in its early years and then numerous other clients . Evangelista moved to near Lake Garda a decade ago and became the Trentino/Alps race director, with his son David taking over at Vitesse. “I think a lot of people don’t fully appreciate just how difficult and complex it is to put on a major professional sporting event out on the open road” Evangelista explains. “They can see the results and see the problems when things go wrong but don’t see and understand the hard work to mak