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He won the first time trial of the 2021 Tour de France.Lack of TT training wouldn't make much sense cause all GC riders just maintain TT training throughout the year to some degree. So unless Pogacar doesn't do this at all, it wouldn't make much sense.
I think the only thing that kinda makes sense is if he struggles with time trials if he hasn't done max efforts recently, so if he's done a few full gas efforts in a race his TT is gonna do better than if he hasn't, which is a sizable difference between the Dauphine TT and the Tour TT.
Or it's just always *** around with the TT position, as one does.
He trains very little, only before the Tour and someday in preseason. I mentioned this before this World Championship. We only saw him for one day. Very little for someone who recognizes he needs to train in this discipline to feel comfortable on TT bike.
Yesterday, from the start, he looked much more uncomfortable on the TT bike than in the last Tour ITT. He's one of those riders who needs to practice or he'll be uncomfortable again. And from what we've seen, he's hardly trained at all. He didn't need to say that; we already discussed it here last week.
