Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[CyclistAbi]

What else would you call it?
You think someone looked at the pothole, and decided that it could be fun to just... leave it?

Yes. Someone looked at it and deiced a bit of paint will do. To "warn" the peloton. That is what i am saying. I read it in an article in the local news.

So basically UCI No. 1, from safety point of view, is worth at best a can of spray. A shovel of asphalt would be too much. And in the end hard to blame them. As why going the extra mile if you don't have to. The result is exactly the same.

It's just a wrist in the end and Pogi is likely training already for the Tour. Likely on the bike next day.

Anyway. I was surprised to read the paint was there to "warn" the peloton. That is on why i decided to mention it. As it indeed sounds a bit surreal. But there you have it. That is safety in today's peloton. Standard is set below even the imagination.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yes. Someone looked at it and deiced a bit of paint will do. To "warn" the peloton. That is what i am saying. I read it in an article in the local news.

Still seems a bit unbelievable to me. Did you read a quote by someone straight up saying that had been the intention?

 

[CyclistAbi]

This is where i read it. Best if you use a translator on it.

Poglejte luknjo, ki je Pogačarja morda stala Toura! Ne morete verjeti, kaj so naredili organizatorji (foto + video)

Najboljši kolesar na svetu, Tadej Pogačar, je na dirki Liège-Bastogne-Liège, grdo padel in si zlomil dve kosti v zapestju.

ekipa.svet24.si

It says the source for this article is sudinfo.be. So somebody from Belgium can try to pin point the original article. Basically what it says is the spray was used before the race, to warn the peloton, and it got fixed 2 days after the crash.

P.S. If i understand correctly local population was making fun of it. Something in the lines of "filling the wells after it rains". Or maybe Belgian humor is a bit more specific. I don't know. We have Belgian fans on this forum and maybe they can chime in. But i agree with you it's hard to believe something like that to even be possible. To mark the crash spot upfront with some paint. Some next level safety for sure.

 

[Oldermanish]

Nope.

They actually did a really sh*tty job and the first cars that drove over it undid the "repair". That looks like the situation from my experience in utility and infrastructure construction.

 

[CyclistAbi]

They actually did a really sh*tty job and the first cars that drove over it undid the "repair". That looks like the situation from my experience in utility and infrastructure construction.

Not according to the article. They just used a can of spray and drove the peloton over it after. "Sh*tty job" came two days after.

 

[Oldermanish]

Not according to the article. They just used a can of spray and drove the peloton over it after. "Sh*tty job" came two days after.

Seriously?! That's how they repair potholes....why bother? The paint definitely looked like a work/task location. That was a monster hole to leave on a descent.

 

[Offline]

Any news on how is going with him?

 

[Aimar16]

Any news on how is going with him?

In a few days he will start training indoors

 

[tobydawq]

In a few days he will start training indoors

What, he hasn't started yet?

 

[Monte Serra]

He's at least getting some exercise:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1654757758330191872

View: https://twitter.com/derailleurkate/status/1654757758330191872

 

[Samu Cuenca]

He's at least getting some exercise:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1654757758330191872

View: https://twitter.com/derailleurkate/status/1654757758330191872

Seems like the ideal preparation for the Tour battle against Vingegaard. Last year he drowned himself.

 

[Wyndbrook]

I hope he could keep up, some of those kids are probably already training more hours a day than he does.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pog looks so thin in the pic. Even his legs. So still no indoor training, that's long but he had a busy spring so maybe its not that bad.

 

[Jan the Man]

It would not be surprising if it was not already planned to have 7/10 days completely off after the loading in Spring. As long a so he can start beginning of next week he should not be too far behind in prep.

 

[Aimar16]

What, he hasn't started yet?

He has been racing non-stop since mid-february. Surely the guy deserved a little break.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Read in the local news that only indoor training till the end of the month.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Read in the local news that only indoor training till the end of the month.

It doesn't sound good to me.

 

[Lorzenz08]

It doesn't sound good to me.

I agree that only 4 weeks of outside training before the start of the tdF will be really tight to get in peak shape.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Read in the local news that only indoor training till the end of the month.

So it's worse than expected. A schedule change is getting more and more likely but they will try everything to get him ready for the Tour.

 

[Lorzenz08]

So it's worse than expected. A schedule change is getting more and more likely but they will try everything to get him ready for the Tour.

Yes a wrist injury is one of the worst for a cyclist. Even though it seems kinda counter intuitive as it's not "used" to make the bike advance. It is obviously fundamental as it's where a big part of the body is supported on the bike, for hours. A bad wrist recovery following an injury can break a career.

Hopefully they just want to make sure it's 110% healed.

 

[CyclistAbi]

A bit of reserve in regards to training on road in June could be skipping ToS and going straight to the Tour. We'll see.

 

[Bolder]

Here's my dream: Pog can't get back into top 3 shape for the Tour. He purposely loses huge chunks of time in the first two stages, then wins the next 19 as a stagehunter.

 

[KZD]

Read in the local news that only indoor training till the end of the month.

If Pogačar can't do any altitude training until the end of the month, I can't see him beating Vingegård in the Tour.

However I can still see him behind competitive in the Tour and use it to get into top shape for the World Championships and possibly the Vuelta.

 

[Pogačar's neighbor]

In a next few days Pogačar will already start with his altitude training in Sierra Nevada.

 

[dazaau]

If Pogačar can't do any altitude training until the end of the month, I can't see him beating Vingegård in the Tour.

However I can still see him behind competitive in the Tour and use it to get into top shape for the World Championships and possibly the Vuelta.

Genuine question, why can't you altitude train indoors?