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

[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).

 

[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

 

[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.

 

[scribers]

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.🤪

It’s normal for the elite to avoid racing each other before a big race of the year. Especially in build up races. Pogi released his schedule in December before the others and saw very little of the big three prior to then (did remco even race LBL?)

 

[RedheadDane]

(did remco even race LBL?)

Think he was still in recovery from the Basque Crash.

 

[scribers]

I think it was on his announced schedule, so avoidance is not monolithic, if even normal

 

[peterfin]

I think it was on his announced schedule, so avoidance is not monolithic, if even normal

He had a broken colar bone and scapula from a crash two weeks prior to LBL. As a 2-time winner he will race LBL always if it fits his schedule and he isn't recovering. It's like Mvdp not riding Flanders. Of course he will, regardless of Pogacar.

 

[RedheadDane]

I think it was on his announced schedule, so avoidance is not monolithic, if even normal

Pretty sure he wasn't the only rider who had races on their announced schedules, but ended up not doing those races...

 

[pastronef]

you what would make me warm to Lombardia? if they raced it before the Giro. but it clashes with Romandie. now it's just sad. never got any expectation, never really warmed to it. the season ends, winter and cold will come. just sad. it would a great race before the Giro. but there's really no weekend available, and May 1st is already taken by Eschborn-Frankfurt WT

 

[Netserk]

you what would make me warm to Lombardia? if they raced it before the Giro. but it clashes with Romandie. now it's just sad. never got any expectation, never really warmed to it. the season ends, winter and cold will come. just sad. it would a great race before the Giro. but there's really no weekend available, and May 1st is already taken by Eschborn-Frankfurt WT

Heresy.

 

[RedheadDane]

you what would make me warm to Lombardia? if they raced it before the Giro.

Then it wouldn't be "The Race of the Falling Leaves".

 

[pastronef]

Heresy.

I know. I see all of you hyped for Il Lombardia. I don't feel it. my fault.

 

[pastronef]

Then it wouldn't be "The Race of the Falling Leaves".

I'm more than ready to miss that detail.
Il Lombardia: "the great opening for the Giro". on these screens in May 2030!