When it comes to being on the same finisher's podium as Tadej Pogačar, but in a completely different league, even before this year's Volta a Catalunya, Mikel Landa knew the feeling only too well.
In last year's Flèche Wallonne, when Landa claimed third behind a triumphant Pogačar and second-placed Mattias Skjelmose, the Basque already coined the phrase - at least where the Slovenian was concerned - as being "among the first of the mortals" to finish behind Pogačar.
