Il Lombardia 2024, one day monument, October 12, farewell to Domenico Pozzovivo

[James M]

This is a preview of 2025. Everyone avoiding racing with Pog

Into the mountains we go I get flashback from stage 15 in the Tour and Isola stage where Pog put up the nr 1 and 2 best climbing performance of all time and dropped Vingegaard and Evenepoel like two amateurs in their best ever performances even. Im not sure the peloton are looking forward to this they know the slaughter which is coming.

 

[No Excuses]

Remco shedded a tear when Pogi left him in the dust rain.

Memeco should be a domestique for Landa in the future

 

[Cookster15]

im not gonna watch i think, its pointless

LOL, cycling isn't football. You don't know how good you have it!! Would you watch any cycling if the races finished at 1:30am and you had to work the next day?

 

[James M]

Let's be real.

24kph isn't enough there

True. If real, Teddy gonne drop everyone like I dropped my 4 year old niece the other day. We both have no mercy

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Yeah, I'm going to watch and not think about the fact that Omloop isn't until March 1, 2025, over 4 and a half months away.

 

[Lequack]

Meanwhile the prophet mou has some advice for Remco

https://twitter.com/x/status/1844045137061757261

View: https://twitter.com/mou55981652/status/1844045137061757261

 

[Rob5091]

Pozzovivo's last race in the pro peloton. Forza Domenico!

 

[Lequack]

Some previews

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfrMW-Xiis

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcAtfDJKjZA

 

[Jack_89]

This is a preview of 2025. Everyone avoiding racing with Pog

Everyone who? Certainly not the true cycling fans. Maybe the blind fanboy of one rider or another, but it wouldn't be a shame. They can return to the stadium. cycling remains one of the few universal sports where nationality comes after the rider. Eh, buthere is no show... but what would the show be? In the case of Lombardia a procession to S.Fermo to then discover that no one or almost no one has the legs and we arrive in a sprint with 4/5 riders? 200km of racing reduced to the last 5km, what a wonderful show! I have already seen too many of these so called "shows" in the last 20 years. I continue to prefer a solo attack of one hour. If Pogacar is too strong, then so be it. I don't think the era of Michael Schumacher or the Nadal-Federer duo was very different.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17

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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).

 

[Red Rick]

Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17

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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).

Pogacar is still free money

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogacar is still free money

Well, in cycling the threat of crashes is always realistic, that's why it's not free money.

 

[RedheadDane]

Everyone who?

The other riders. The other riders are supposedly avoiding racing with/against Pogacar.

 

[Jan the Man]

Pogaçar 8/1 to win Roubaix and he won't even ride.

As for Lombardia, this Sport tends to throw up strange stories but absence a crash or serious mechanical issues there really appears only one plausible winner

 

[Red Rick]

Well, in cycling the threat of crashes is always realistic, that's why it's not free money.

1 race ending crash in how many years?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

1 race ending crash in how many years?

In case of Pogacar a race-ending crash is rare indeed. Not sure how much it's due to lack. Still it cost him one Liege shot (as for other reasons, also Urshka's mother death cost him another Liege chance).

 

[tobydawq]

In case of Pogacar a race-ending crash is rare indeed. Not sure how much it's due to lack. Still it cost him one Liege shot (as for other reasons, also Urshka's mother death cost him another Liege chance).

There still isn't a ~20% chance that he crashes out.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

There still isn't a ~20% chance that he crashes out.

Well, maybe all external factors combined give 10%, not 15-20% (my initial guess)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Memeco should be a domestique for Landa in the future

Well he can't do any worse than the team Landa had in the Vuelta.

 

[gunara]

Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17

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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).

With all the hassle for me just to be able to bet, 1.22 is more like no money than free money. What a joke. So Remco.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Remco And Rog need to make a pact.

We split the beers at the pub?

 

[Jack_89]

The other riders. The other riders are supposedly avoiding racing with/against Pogacar.

LOL
forgive me if I'm rude, but then they would do well to retire in total shame, because they would not be worthy of the title of athletes (not even cyclists). If they are afraid and do not want to compete, they should hang up their bikes and go into agriculture, industry or get a job at KFC. Didn't Gimondi, Poulidor and Zoetemelk race when Eddy was around? Charles Barckley, John Stockton and Karl Malone what they did in the Jordan goat age?
Ps And believe me , none is more sad than me that Stockton-Malone never won a ring.🤪

 

[RedheadDane]

LOL
forgive me if I'm rude, but then they would do well to retire in total shame, because they would not be worthy of the title of athletes (not even cyclists). If they are afraid and do not want to compete, they should hang up their bikes and go into agriculture, industry or get a job at KFC. Didn't Gimondi, Poulidor and Zoetemelk race when Eddy was around? Charles Barckley, John Stockton and Karl Malone what they did in the Jordan goat age?
Ps And believe me , none is more sad than me that Stockton-Malone never won a ring.🤪

Yeah, probably just people around here making things up.
Nobody is "avoiding Pogacar".

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

LOL, cycling isn't football. You don't know how good you have it!! Would you watch any cycling if the races finished at 1:30am and you had to work the next day?

Well, I do

 

[Escarabajo]

Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17

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I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).

Crashes and illness I guess. Not even a mechanical would stop him.