{"id":256513,"date":"2025-11-02T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256513\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:34:07","slug":"hes-like-pogacar-everyone-loves-him-brian-holm-praises-elia-vivianis-fairytale-farewell-after-world-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256513\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s like Pogacar, everyone loves him\u201d \u2014 Brian Holm praises Elia Viviani\u2019s fairytale farewell after world title win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holm tried to explain what made Viviani\u2019s triumph so emotional to watch, making a surprising comparison. \u201cHe\u2019s like Pogacar, everyone loves him. He\u2019s a good man. To see him in his very last race become world champion, that\u2019s one of the best things I\u2019ve ever seen on TV,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Elia Viviani\u2019s professional journey began in 2010 when he joined Liquigas\u2013Doimo, a team that also featured stars like Ivan Basso, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/peter-sagan\" title=\"Peter Sagan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Sagan<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/vincenzo-nibali\" title=\"Vincenzo Nibali\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vincenzo Nibali<\/a>. Over the years, he became one of Italy\u2019s most successful and reliable riders, combining success on both the road and the track.<\/p>\n<p>During his professional career, Viviani amassed five stage victories at the Giro d\u2019Italia, three at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and one at the Tour de France, reaching the impressive number of 90 professional wins.<\/p>\n<p>His greatest road victory arguably came in 2019, when he captured the European Championship title in a flat edition, beating a strong field that included <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/mark-cavendish\" title=\"Mark Cavendish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Cavendish<\/a>, Mads Pedersen or Arnaud D\u00e9mare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holm tried to explain what made Viviani\u2019s triumph so emotional to watch, making a surprising comparison. \u201cHe\u2019s like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-256513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}