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Giving Autographs TDF21-136
It may not be the first time it has happened while the riders pedal their way to Paris, but this is the first time I've seen autographs being given to other in the peloton. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) produced a marker out of nowhere and signed the Maillot a Pois on the shoulders of Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious). Of course what could have been happening was that Pogacar was claiming his polka dot jersey. After all, Poels sits in second in the competition, the final jersey will be awarded to Pogacar on the Champs Elysees in about another sixty kilometers of racing. I think Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-Quick Step) had never seen this either, and it was cracking him up. Pogacar may have sucked up all of the other jerseys, but the Maillot Vert was Cavendish's and no one was going to be able to take it off his shoulders (unless things really go awry in the finale on the Champs Elysees).