On the downhill, Mohoric looked like a fluro-green and blue praying mantis hunched over the front of his Bianchi, ass on the top tube, hands on the bar tops and, somehow, pedaling.
However cycling fans tend to remember what happened after the Slovenian neopro crested the final hill before the descent into Firenze, Italy. At press time, the German rider Marcel Wüst seems to have done the first televised supertuck during the 1996 Tour DuPont.īut Wüst’s tuck through Appalachia didn’t catch on in the peloton, so let’s fast-forward to the 2013 U23 Men’s Road World Championships, when an 18-year-old Matej Mohoric dropped the likes of South Africa’s Louis Meintjes and Australia’s Caleb Ewan on a climb. Since the ban, cycling journalists and Reddit users have disagreed about who invented the supertuck.
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With the supertuck’s days in the peloton numbered, let’s look back at its place in pro cycling and the void left in its absence.
The news about the supertuck has dominated headlines and rider discussion, dividing the sport’s athletes and fans along fault lines of those who consider it an unnecessary risk that kids are already mimicking and those who wish the UCI would address more pressing safety issues and quit sucking the fun out of the sport. Marcel Kittel, who retired from pro cycling in 2019, rides in a supertuck position in Stage 16 of the 2017 Tour de France.
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