Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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Pogacar is a beast in 5% climbs. This is where he shines.
He said in 7%, that´s why Lombardia has always been the race that has suited him best.

5% greatly favors the specialist. It's going to be very difficult for him to beat Remco; if he does, it will be because he's managed to gain time on the descents.
 
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He said in 7%, that´s why Lombardia has always been the race that has suited him best.

5% greatly favors the specialist. It's going to be very difficult for him to beat Remco; if he does, it will be because he's managed to gain time on the descents.
5% is for power climbers. No one has more power than Pogacar. I wouldn't favor Remco even on 3-4% gradients against peak Pogacar.
 
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Pogacar won the hilly/mountain TT in the TdF 2024 and La Turbie is a climb of 5.7%, Remco was nowhere near the level of Vingegaard or Pogacar. And that's peak Remco (stage 21 though, not a one day race).
 
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I really don't see where on this course Remco should be better than Tadej. Even on 3-5% Remco shouldn't be stronger and on descent absolutely not. And after 4 times up and down Pogacar should be even stronger.
 
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Pogacar won the hilly/mountain TT in the TdF 2024 and La Turbie is a climb of 5.7%, Remco was nowhere near the level of Vingegaard or Pogacar. And that's peak Remco (stage 21 though, not a one day race).
Those climbs in Nice are tougher. Specialists lose a lot of capacity in stage 21

Do we have any forum members who've been to the area? :sweatsmile:
 
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Do we have any forum members who've been to the area? :sweatsmile:
What do you want to know? I haven’t been but the road is perfectly new, the course is not technical, but it’s still hard. Not like Nice at all, easier, but hard enough that Pogacar has a higher chance of winning than Evenepoel.
 
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He said in 7%, that´s why Lombardia has always been the race that has suited him best.

5% greatly favors the specialist. It's going to be very difficult for him to beat Remco; if he does, it will be because he's managed to gain time on the descents.

Pogacar lost very little time to Remco on very fast TTs in the last two Tours. If he's in top form then he's favoured on 5% gradients (provided it's not a bump on a road but a few kilometers of climbing).
 
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A class act as usual


So he wasn't the mastermind behind it after all?

As for some light reading, before the race starts:

 
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So he wasn't the mastermind behind it after all?

As for some light reading, before the race starts:

He never was. I'm pretty sure this is all about Gianetti.
 
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I'm very curious to know what role Yates will have today.
Politt, Wellens, Sivakov and McNulty will rip the race in the first 190 km, then it's all about Narcaez and Yates. But with this team, I think Yates will not be necessary.
 
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He never was. I'm pretty sure this is all about Gianetti.

Hard to say as we don't have enough insight plus some sports collectives tend to operate in such way, to have a scapegoat. I guess as a reminder.

I'm very curious to know what role Yates will have today.
Politt, Wellens, Sivakov and McNulty will rip the race in the first 190 km, then it's all about Narcaez and Yates. But with this team, I think Yates will be necessary.

To work for Pogi.
 
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He never was. I'm pretty sure this is all about Gianetti.

Gianetti tried to prevent Teddy from racing PR and look what happened. He didn't want to be fired so he had no choice but to obey the real boss of the team.

So he wasn't the mastermind behind it after all?

I'm not so sure he wasn't but it seems Ayuso simply wanted this change to have a team for himself.
 
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Novak looks very weak for the WCRR. This is not good for Pogacar.
I'm not watching yet so I don't know what happened to Novak but it's more than two weeks till WCRR so what matters is that he's at least decent by then, not now.

EDIT: My bad I thought he was at Canada but I just realized he's at Vuelta lol.
 
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