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He had crashed the day before, but somehow managed to not only completely obliterate all his opponents, but to be practically on par with the most notorious doped performance of all time, which is undoubtedly what Mr. 60% did in 1996 on a much easier route where Hautacam was the only climb.

Let's not forget that his main rivals are: Jonas, who reportedly had the second highest ever measured VO2 Max of 97 at the age of seventeen, so he's almost certainly somewhere in the 100+ VO2 Max range right now. MVdP, a generational talent, from a dynasty of cyclists, when it comes to...

From the same edition of shameless boasting…

From the same “oracle” website, an article written just a month before the one about Pogačar. ”We have the privilege of interviewing a lot of talented young riders, many of whom we hope will become the stars of tomorrow. But we have not yet met a rider who goes over cobbles and hills, as well...

Can we then agree on some undeniable facts? So if Pogačar is the "greatest" rider to ever race a bike, then the "greatest" victory in a cycling race ever is, of course, the 17th stage of the Tour de France in 2006, when Floyd Landis launched a 120km solo attack and won the stage with five...

Really...!?! So being second overall at the Giro behind the best rider in the entire world, as Contador undoubtedly was at the time, is "nothing special". Il Cobra Ricco even had a chance to win the Giro that year, but alas, he didn't know that you can be much better if you just ride the bike...

Alas, sixteen years ago some jealous people did not allow il Cobra to reach Pogačar's level of "greatness"…:rolleyes:

You should be a comedian, and what we're all witnessing is actually beyond any parody. But hey, there are always enough naive people to believe in this kind of Riccardo il Cobra Ricco 2.0 "greatness"…:rolleyes:

It's like watching all the biggest dopers from their best days, but in one person. Of course Jonas is doped to the gills, but somehow his performance is more believable, probably because he rides a typical schedule of several one-week stage races during the spring, then the Dauphine and the...

I've been watching cycling long before 2002 and I've never seen anything like this. Nope, not even close to this kind of alien like performance. All the best cyclist of their eras had some kind of flaw, some type of terrain that didn't suit them, except Pogačar.

Well, you've apparently forgotten how Pogacar claimed two years ago that the key to his incredibly good ITT ride on Stage 5 was route reconnaissance. Let's not forget what happened in 2020, when Pogacar famously rode to feel without a power meter or computer on Stage 20, and that somehow helped...

Why…?! Probably because he desperately tried to do something today and steal the show that way. He’s so arrogantly full of himself and his image of the new Merckx, that he couldn’t just gracefully accept his defeat. Such a pathetic loser…

Please remind me what exactly happened after Andy Schleck attacked Contador and then dropped his chain in the 2010 Tour de France?! I mean, does anyone remember the outrage and that Contador had to apologize for taking advantage of Schleck's mechanical problem, even if was obvious to anyone that...

Well, well, well, now you want to tell me that Vingo is somehow responsible for The Miracle on Planche des Belles Filles in 2020, or The Big Chainring Massacre on the Col de la Colombiére last year. By the way, IMHO Pog is just a talented early doper & an excellent responder and nothing more...

Well, two years ago I said to myself something like… Nah, there is no chance that Pog could even sniff those 57sec at La Planche des Belles Filles. On stage 17 Roglic left Pog behind on the Col de la Loze (Kuss was MVP that day), and Pog was just nine seconds faster than Roglic in Slovenian ITT...