Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[Eddy Evenepoel]

these are people who have nothing against Pog and with whom he is good and who are important helpers: Majka, Almeida, Novak ,Groschartner,R.Oliveira,Wellens,Christien,everything else is very questionable,very...

Do you know where Stake Laengen stands? He’s been racing the Tour every year with Tadej, and he doesn’t seem like a guy that have any personal ambitions.

 

[mou]

Do you know where Stake Laengen stands? He’s been racing the Tour every year with Tadej, and he doesn’t seem like a guy that have any personal ambitions.

I said serious helpers, of course the Norwegian is just doing his job, you don't need to take everything literally, Laengen is like Declerkq in Lidl, he only has the ambition to look at the landscape from the whole column of 100-150km, I'm talking about these characters with big egos, ambitions. ..

 

[mou]

the biggest materialist among all cyclists is Jay Vine, he only looks at the money, everything through money, for him cycling is pure business without a trace of passion. he loves what about Pog at the Giro because of the prize fund for the winner because Pog always gives up the prize cake when he wins grand Tour and it is divided among 7 riders and a small part gets the staff, so it is not small money when Pog wins the Giro, together with a couple of shirts and a stage, approx. 500,000 is divided into 7 parts, it is an understatement to say that such a person never get along well with Pog in anything, because one is driven by money and the other by pure passion for bikes

 

[vwpe]

Quite disappointing. Vpwe forgot to say that today he is going on a ride with a Jumbo pro.

Im 3 weeks going on a ride with a few of em. Your more than welcomed to tag along for the ride if your in spain area at the time. Im actually even serious if you are and want too pm me, if not just have your fun on a forum thats fine too. The guy on your profile picture might very well join too.

 

[vwpe]

the biggest materialist among all cyclists is Jay Vine, he only looks at the money, everything through money, for him cycling is pure business without a trace of passion. he loves what about Pog at the Giro because of the prize fund for the winner because Pog always gives up the prize cake when he wins grand Tour and it is divided among 7 riders and a small part gets the staff, so it is not small money when Pog wins the Giro, together with a couple of shirts and a stage, approx. 500,000 is divided into 7 parts, it is an understatement to say that such a person never get along well with Pog in anything, because one is driven by money and the other by pure passion for bikes

This is actually my impression too tho i dont have insight knowledge from Uae camp but from talking to several and he himself thats my impression too, not that its anything wrong with that. You have several more riders who you could say the same for. More so than just even 5-10 years ago (more riders).

 

[vwpe]

Curious of how Pogacar would so in Robauix if he ented this week. Noone is stronger than him in the peleton and close in endurance so it makes me wonder how he would fare even tho i too imagine him beeing to light etc....

Just wonder how it would be.

MVDP is happy Pogacar isnt racing i can tell you that for sure if that tells you anything.

How he would do at this stage in his career in Robauix I dont even think he himself know 100% nor anyone else in Uae how he would do as Robauix is such a special/unique race and the general norm is weight matters more than one would think is the word of mouth from the guys riding it, its such a special thing like no other races.

But Pogacar is not normal in any way or form. people would pay to watch is the only thing I know for sure if not anything else, its one of those tings one simply dont know yet unlike every other races he enters.

 

[Extinction]

the biggest materialist among all cyclists is Jay Vine, he only looks at the money, everything through money, for him cycling is pure business without a trace of passion. he loves what about Pog at the Giro because of the prize fund for the winner because Pog always gives up the prize cake when he wins grand Tour and it is divided among 7 riders and a small part gets the staff, so it is not small money when Pog wins the Giro, together with a couple of shirts and a stage, approx. 500,000 is divided into 7 parts, it is an understatement to say that such a person never get along well with Pog in anything, because one is driven by money and the other by pure passion for bikes

I must say the guy does come across as a real (that British slang word for jerk).

 

[Peyroteo94]

Unfortunately, not the way I would like seeing him win Giro-Tour but now his chances are bigger than ever. Cycling is so cruel!

 

[Screecher]

It's not just the Tour but also LBL where his main competition was supposed to be Roglic and Remco.

 

[velaso montador]

Unfortunately, not the way I would like seeing him win Giro-Tour but now his chances are bigger than ever. Cycling is so cruel!

Just like Pogacar last year where he rode in not optional conditions after his crash in Liege and was far from his best naturaly duo to preperation people like roglic,vingegaard and evenepoel and the others will do the same, these people arent build like fotball players. They ofc would not able to do so well with sub par preperation as him but lets await and see what the injuries are first.

Fingers crossed for everyone involved and that it isnt something serious. Crashes is the worst part of cycling whoever is involved. Pray for everyone involved its okei and not something serious.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Teddy tomorrow: Together with the team we realized that my form isn't progressing well enough for the Giro. Therefore I will fully focus on the Tour again. I promise I'll start the Giro one day!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Honestly I find it a bit tasteless to speculate about the double chances before we get an update on Vingegaard's condition...

 

[hfgon1]

The real question is: Will he ride the Vuelta if he wins Giro and Tou?

 

[Red Rick]

And people say I'm a troll when I call him a luck merchant

 

[saunaking]

there is Vine, Ayuso, Mcnulty who are jealous of Pog and who whenever they are called to be Pog's assistants in the last 2 years suddenly fell ill either before the race or during the race. Pog feels it all and the people around him know it. Why do you think it's always the same people and Slovenians following Pog at the races, mechanic Kavcnik, DS Hauptman, Domen Novak almost every race this year, and masseur Joseba, whom he trusts as a brother from the Vuelta 2019.

Maybe they aren't jealous but have no respect for the Slovenian clinic mafia he surrounds himself with.

 

[Lorzenz08]

I think it's never a good idea to speculate on someone chance based on injuries events so early.

First of all, let's hope Vingo isn't life threatening injured first, or career ending injured second.

Second, Pogi can also get injured, be it in training, or in the Giro...

Third, and let's hope it is the case, Vingo injuries aren't be so bad as to massively affect his TdF prep, and he will be as close to 100% shape as possible when July comes.

 

[mou]

I sincerely hope that the fisherman is not seriously threatened and that he will be at 100% for the Tour so that the fight will be interesting, nobody wants a repeat of Flanders 2024

 

[AmRacer]

I sincerely hope that the fisherman is not seriously threatened and that he will be at 100% for the Tour so that the fight will be interesting, nobody wants a repeat of Flanders 2024

Or SB 2024

 

[mou]

Or SB 2024

the fact that he was afraid of the duel with Pog in Siena and gave up a couple of days before has nothing to do with the fall of Wout and Pedersen a couple of days before Flanders, you are mixing frogs and grandmas, one was done out of fear of humiliation and the other because of a serious accident

 

[yaf]

I sincerely hope that the fisherman is not seriously threatened and that he will be at 100% for the Tour so that the fight will be interesting, nobody wants a repeat of Flanders 2024

Even if todays crash makes the giro tour double easier for pogi and pogi will probably wont like to win it that way i really hope jonas wont lose his cycling career by the crash🙏😟

 

[Valv.Piti]

Come on Rick, a luck merchant?? Pogi has had one serious crash, and so has Vingegaard now. But it would be kinda odd to call Vingegaard a luck merchant a few hours after laying in a ditch unable to move.

 

[Peyroteo94]

This season is cursed. Fingers crossed for him!! Liege is a very tricky race and so is the Giro. Just stay on your bike Tadej!

 

[topcat]

And people say I'm a troll when I call him a luck merchant

You're not a troll but you're mixing frogs with grandmas with that post.

 

[tobydawq]

the biggest materialist among all cyclists is Jay Vine, he only looks at the money, everything through money, for him cycling is pure business without a trace of passion. he loves what about Pog at the Giro because of the prize fund for the winner because Pog always gives up the prize cake when he wins grand Tour and it is divided among 7 riders and a small part gets the staff, so it is not small money when Pog wins the Giro, together with a couple of shirts and a stage, approx. 500,000 is divided into 7 parts, it is an understatement to say that such a person never get along well with Pog in anything, because one is driven by money and the other by pure passion for bikes

That's also my impression. When he won the first Vuelta stage and he was asked what he thought about it, his first answer was 'prize money'.

But okay, he had a horrible accident yesterday, so I'll stop here.

 

[tobydawq]

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This was actually on point. I've even heard him admit it in an interview.