Paris-Roubaix 2025, one day monument, April 13 (men)

[Salvarani]

Bike change!

Definitely over

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Pogačar turning into 2005 Michael Rasmussen now.

 

[Andy262]

Pog gambling on inflated tyres?

 

[Sciatic]

should be a good duel for 3rd on these last 2 difficult sectors

 

[Netserk]

Mentally finished.

 

[Poursuivant]

Game over

 

[Escarabajo]

About time, He needed a bike with a moto!

 

[Leinster]

Temu tires on a Colnago?

 

[YavorD]

Mathieu so strong, such a shame he was sick after E3

Kinda shame that all his opponents crashed or had mechanical as well, no?
Can't wait for you to note this a few times in the next few days.

 

[Froome]

Mathieu so strong, such a shame he was sick after E3

Otherwise he would had won the 3 monuments. What a pity.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Summary of Pogacar in this race: he has the watts and power, but he doesn't have the experience and cornering skills. Race computers and race radios help to some extent but he just needs to do it a couple more times in a race situation.

He's never going to match Van der Poel in terms of cornering, though. So he outright needs to have more sheer watts given that tactics are dead.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Vermeersch ready to chase down Pogacar and establish dominance in the UAE internal ranking.

 

[Leinster]

Bisseger some man for one man. Fair play.

 

[ppanther92]

Should be clear now that MvdP was told to ride, looking at Philipsen now.

Ah, Pogi mechanical - maybe partly a reason why he started losing time

 

[iBanesto]

Pogacar already dead, game over.

 

[Salvarani]

He can hold his head high after his first participation here as a pro.

He will be back!

 

[scribers]

The prideful fake mechanical

I’d self crack if it were me

 

[KOM]

We live in a weird timeline where the strongest rider consistently has the least amount of bad luck if not outright the best luck...

terrible edition for me, wout finding a shade of legs just adds insult to injury at this point

 

[Brullnux]

And they are all coming out after Ronde

Pogacar will obviously win this one day, there's no doubt. It was just a very tall order to do it first time against a MvdP who knows this race way better. The difference told before we even got to the most technical sector. Give it two more attempts and he'll win.

 

[Unchained]

Shame if this was decided by that lapse of concentration.

Exactly the opposite for me!! I am super happy that a mental mistake appears to be the difference.. Fingers crossed!!

 

[bigcog]

Still a bloody good show by Pogacar

 

[jono]

Kinda shame that all his opponents crashed or had mechanical as well, no?
Can't wait for you to note this a few times in the next few days.

Pedersen lost 90 seconds after he got back on his bike.

 

[Tommy Gun]

Finally the ""goat"" (boy, do I hate this term and those who use it) has been broken !!!
Good job MvdP

 

[meat puppet]

Yeah, so I guess it was books for me today. But on that note a wise man once wrote:

"Dialectics is the self-consciousness of the objective context of delusion; it does not mean to have escaped from that context. Its objective goal is to break out of the context from within. The strength required from the break grows in dialectics from the context of immanence."

If watching cycling these days does not constitute an objective context of delusion, I don't know what does.

And yet I love seeing MvdP tear the poster boi a new one.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Conclusions so far.
-MVDP and Pogacar close to each other. without Pogacar crash I think MVDP might make the mistake of working too much and handing Pogacar the win.
- Van Aert lost the race at Carrefour. His diesel was alright, and the race would have gone different had he been at the first group. (Same for pedersen)