{"id":239384,"date":"2025-11-02T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:58:08","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\/uk\/239384\/","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":239385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}