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Pogacar put almost 80 seconds into Roglic on a 20-minute climb of Peyreguades (fresh TT effort, it was considered a good performance by Roglic), which is more or less consistent with those w/kg differences. OTOH only 68 seconds on a fresh 55-minute Ventoux climb was much smaller than average...

If that's the case then Ayuso was an idiot to even take part in 2024 Tour knowing it'll be all in for Tadej (instead of choosing another GT with guaranteed leadership). Then again, I'm not necessarily buying this guarantee in contract rumours. He himself said in 2024 that Tadej was the Tour leader.

It will be almost 5 months without any races. Can't wait to his season debut in Strade!

People die from CO, x-men get stronger.

According to Pogacar his Z2 rides are 150-155 BPM when fresh, which corresponds to 70-75% of his HRmax (so the lower part of Z3 in classical HR approach). I wouldn't say his LT2 is that close to LT1 though: it's likely close to 90% of his HRmax.

I meant how it was perceived by some fans, same as now in Vingo's case. I don't know what was going on in Pogacar's or Vingo's head (none of us knows).

It was perceived like that by many: to win a GT after two years without any. It turned out that Pogacar prepared absolutely monstrous form for the Tour and they stopped saying so. If Vingegaard uses the Giro well and prepares superb form for the Tour winning it, nobody will think so anymore.

GTs departed from TT heavy routes a long time ago. To win the Tour you have to be the best climber and Remco isn't even close. The Tour seems locked in the next 2-3 editions. Bad luck has to happen to Pogacar but even then Vingegaard should be too strong (at least in the next two editions IMO...

Exactly. In Remco's era nutrition is much better than in the 2010s. Only in the 90s food quality was comparable.

If he really got better I would expect him to be closer to Vingegaard than during Tirreno 2024 (the Dane's form will probably be lower than 2 years back, he had some setbacks and isn't the alien he used to be).

Vingo won Algarve, not Pologne in 2025. Vuelta victory + Tour runner up gives a lot of points. Pogacar is too busy with classics and does few stage races per year.

They run 20-30 km daily mostly in fat burning zones. Anyway, we saw how light Remco was in the summer 2024: it resulted in Tour podium and two golds.

Finally someone found the courage to disagree with our mighty @Red Rick Tiberi: "Isaac is a great champion, just like Tadej. He could become even bigger than Tadej," Tiberi stated. "We all saw what he did last year at the Giro d’Italia, which he almost won. He’s still super young and a real...

If you see how top climbers look at the Tour you will know. They are very shredded, Even Remco was like that in 2024 (his best GT showing to date).

They still run 20-30 km daily as training (mostly in fat burning zones).