All-time great Eddy Merckx has recognised that top Tour de France contender Tadej Pogačar could soon be joining him, Miguel Indurain, Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil as five-time winners of cycling's biggest bike race.
Merckx, 81, won the Tour himself five times from five participations between 1969 and 1974, with 1973, the year he did not take part, the only time he missed out on victory.
