Tricky questions were strategically ignored during the Giro d'Italia winner's online press conference, in which the 25-year-old leader of the UAE Emirates team spent more time waxing lyrical about chocolate brownies rather than responding to questions about record-breaking climbing times. "Don't tell my nutritionist," Pogacar said of his rest-day ride, "but we stopped at the bakery, and I had one of the best brownies I've ever eaten in my life."
Brownies are unlikely to be the secret of his success, and after winning both summit finishes in the Pyrenees, at Pla d'Adet on Saturday and Plateau de Beille a day later, the Slovenian now looks almost out of reach to his closest rival, Jonas Vingegaard. Pogacar leads by more than three minutes.
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