Tour of Slovenia, Majka beats Pogar at the Chinese morra and wins the stage- Corriere.it

The video quickly made the rounds of the Net, amusing many, indignating some. Fourth stage of the Giro di Slovenia, high mountain fraction: Tadej Pogacar, the Martian of world cycling, in the yellow leader’s jersey, appears on the final straight in the company of very trusted emirates Rafal Majka.

The two – with embarrassing ease – they have detached all the opponents and are moving towards the white line. In these cases the captain generally leaves the victory to his partner, but the two – very friendly – they decide to do it by giving a show by playing (or rather by pretending to) the success in morra.

Majka obviously wins which is practically pushed by Pogacar towards success: The two teammates left the choice of the winner to fate – writes Emirates in a press release – Majka “won” and was thus able to cross the finish line first, embraced by friend Tadej.

We just had fun, the Pole tweeted a few minutes later. On the web, someone recalled that the battleship Uae-Emirates sent its spearhead to prepare the Tour not for the Dauphiné or the Tour of Switzerland – where Covid permitting, all its opponents were there – but in a home race in which there were opponents and third-tier teams. The Emirati likes to win comfortably and easily – the criticism – and also making fun of opponents of enormously inferior rank to him.