Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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to be honest looking at riis in hautacam he looked much more comfortable on his bike
The development of the bicycles was inferior.
I don't know if it's called development in English.
Thirty years ago, it was harder to move a bicycle, so a record from 30 years ago means superior physical performance.
 
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I want to see the watts, Vingegaard was definitively worse than in 2024 Pdb, no doubt about that, pog also but by a smaller margin. I know the pacing on pdb was perfect, but to keep the wheels when the pace is high you still have to push the watts!!
In which stratosphere do you think narvaez is putting vingegaard in the limit? Both pog & jonas followed the nuclear power with still 11 kms to go thats why they faded on the 2nd part. For ex. Lipowitz was not part of the watt bomb 11kms to go & rode with his pace. Him coming back to jonas & riding the same pace with pog on the last 5 km explains it
 
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In which stratosphere do you think narvaez is putting vingegaard in the limit? Both pog & jonas followed the nuclear power with still 11 kms to go thats why they faded on the 2nd part. For ex. Lipowitz was not part of the watt bomb 11kms to go & rode with his pace. Him coming back to jonas & riding the same pace with pog on the last 5 km explains it
Yup. Vingegaard will put a minute on Lipo if he rides his own tempo
 
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PdB performance will never be matched. It’s clear that something was up that day with Remco or even Landa outperforming themselves.
I'm not sure, pog has it in himself, in the first mountain test of this year he was better than in pla d'adet last year
 
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PdB performance will never be matched. It’s clear that something was up that day with Remco or even Landa outperforming themselves.
PdB '24 was just perfect for setting the best climbing performance in history. Jorgenson very hard pace from the bottom. Jonas already attacking with 10 km left and going with a very hard pace to try and drop Pogi. Then Pogi going all-out, dropping Jonas from 5.5km left after being in the wheel the whole time.
 
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I'm not sure, pog has it in himself, in the first mountain test of this year he was better than in pla d'adet last year
Maybe but clearly there were some conditions that day that allowed everyone to do their best numbers ever: weather, stage layout, wind, drafting, etc.
 
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PdB performance will never be matched. It’s clear that something was up that day with Remco or even Landa outperforming themselves.

Maybe weather conditions (wind) were better than guys doing w/kg calculations estimated. Other than that Pogacar was perfectly paced by Visma for most of the climb and therefore the crazy 1890 m/h of VAM for 40 minutes.
 
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I'm just saying he was not on his Pdb level, that's it. Btw vingegaard was one minute slower than he was in 2022, that's a lot, to me vingegaard's level today was the biggest surprise
I think there were different conditions. At the Pdb 3 riders beat Pantani record and Landa was near the same. With all due respect, Remco and Landa aren't as good as Pantani. Plus they almost did a MTT with Jorgenson and Jonas who just launched Pocagar.
 
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Maybe but clearly there were some conditions that day that allowed everyone to do their best numbers ever: weather, stage layout, wind, drafting, etc.
it was not that ideal, hot conditions, long stage (almost 200 km which is a lot for a mountain stage), 5000 meters of climbing. The pacing was ideal
 
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1996 was even quite tactical until Riis launched. Ofc it was also after a pan flat stage if I remember correctly.
 
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Maybe but clearly there were some conditions that day that allowed everyone to do their best numbers ever: weather, stage layout, wind, drafting, etc.
Pretty significant tailwind that day, I'm fairly sure the estimates for PdB are too high and Evenepoel's trainer admitted as such.

Wouldn't be surprised if today was a similar level of performance from Pogacar.
 
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Right now, Pogi is like Neo at the end of The Matrix, after he's become fully self-actualized and is inside the matrix making a phone call to let everyone know the jig is up for the machines. Then he flies off into the ether.
 
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