What did he smoke? Mind games or too much respect? I already told Vingegaard lives in his head forever. The only rider he fears.
'He's the best climber in the world' – Tadej Pogačar praises Jonas Vingegaard as Tour de France rivalry enters next chapter
World champion 'hopes to live up to expectations' in search of fourth yellow jerseywww.cyclingnews.com
Nah, I don't believe he actually thinks that. IMHO there are two reasons for this comment:
There's not much to analyze here imo. They are the two best climbers in the world right now. Who will be the best at the Tour? Neither of them know.
Pogi just respects Jonas a lot. There’s nothing else to analyze. None of that "Jonas lives in his head", mind games, fear, or what. Nothing’s changed about Pogi being the race favorite over Jonas. I still expect Pogi to be the better climber in the race.What did he smoke? Mind games or too much respect? I already told Vingegaard lives in his head forever. The only rider he fears.
'He's the best climber in the world' – Tadej Pogačar praises Jonas Vingegaard as Tour de France rivalry enters next chapter
World champion 'hopes to live up to expectations' in search of fourth yellow jersey
I wouldn't go so far as to say Vingo lives in his head but he does have the utmost respect for him. As well he should.
Of course he knows Vingegaard is the only rider able to threat his GC win. Vingegaard was the only rider that beat him in Grand Tour. So he acknowledge the situation...
What did he smoke? Mind games or too much respect? I already told Vingegaard lives in his head forever. The only rider he fears.
'He's the best climber in the world' – Tadej Pogačar praises Jonas Vingegaard as Tour de France rivalry enters next chapter
World champion 'hopes to live up to expectations' in search of fourth yellow jersey
Sound is bad as it was an interview on 2nd rate amateur race. Nevertheless interesting statements.
But saying he is a better climber than him 3 weeks after Vingegaard got destroyed in the mountains by Pogacar.
Too much to be honest. I'm not saying he should say he is better than Vingegaard but saying the opposite is too much specially after what we saw in the Tour 2024 and Dauphine 2025.
What would he have to say about his obvious biggest rival for it to demonstrate that Jonas does not "live in his head"?
It’s whatever. That’s just who Pogi is. He respects his rivals. Nothing more to it. He’ll let his legs do the actual talking.
I've said it before. After the Dauphine I don't pay attention to what Pogacar says. At the Dauphine he was criticized for being arrogant with his statements and now he is doing the total opposite.
I had the same feeling. He looked shocked and confused after MvDP being behind him at Poggio. Also looked really dissapointed after P-R which didn't make sense to me. The guy really is something else. Also about Jonas, if Pogi beats him like he did on Dauphine and than does the same on the Vuelta, Jonas will go to other races next year and will not try to go all in just for TdF. He would easily win 4-5 stages at Giro and Vuelta when Pogi is not around also winning overall. 2 TdF, Giro, Vuelta puts him on another level than having 4or 5 2nd Places at TdF.
With crashes and such the profile of the tour is too great to not put yourself into a position to win it. Assuming pogi can win this year, visma still lines the tour up every year.
Vingegaard already said he would make the Giro if he knew he wasn't able to compete in the Tour
They didn't mess with Belgian jersey.World and Belgian champs
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