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Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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Of course he is very strong, but watching at the stage again, sometimes is better to attack that to go on the chase. Yesterday motorbikes, playing a role. It is not fort day this Tour and of course in cycling history, but cyclist with good aceleration are rewarded, Happends lot of times with Contador and use to pass with Pogacar. That factor will be very small tomorror, but anyway he is this year very strong in the hight mountains and shouldnt have problems.

Later Zimmerman helped, I think it wanst his fight, but things like that happend,s it should be good today to have Pogacar as friend.
 
Yesterday's attack makes perfect sense to me. First of all, you never know with Vingegaard when he may decide to show the world who he really is. 3:09 is not enough. It could very well have played out differently yesterday and Pog could get a relatively cheap extra minute of buffer. But even the way it did play out, it added additional fatigue to Vingegaard which may come in handy when he tries to deliver the wattbomb on Friday.

The only thing I don't like about yesterday's attack is it could make Pog overconfident. And that's his only problem right now. To get overconfident and try to go long solo or something like that. This he should not do under any circumstance. It's way too risky and he can lose the Tour if he bonks and Vingegaard proves to be stronger than he looked yesterday. He should just stick to Vinge like he did on stage 15.
 
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Hard to believe how a mineworker can do so well.
he also said he enjoys Pogi doing that and he says its also a bit retribution from the 2 years vinge beat him, and now he has the legs to hurt Vingegaard so he does at every chance.

thats why i said, dumb stuff taken out of context, not the full quote, and completely misinterpreted by the foreign media of what he actually said against NOS. And then you get people here who are so gullible they take that word for word
 
I was amused when I saw the carbon monoxide test as something controversial. It's a decades old allergy test where you can have various aerosol steroid inhalers administered to see how you respond.

It's the re-breathing method, right?
Funny thing is, I think I'd heard about that before, but didn't realise that's what was being talked about here, because, you know "Inhaling Carbon-Monoxides" seemed a little... sketchy to me.
Not necessarily clinic-related, more unhealthy-sketchy.
 
When he wasnt hurt I always knew like everyone else he is the best but that he would be this much better is just woow. He crushed everyone last year too before the injury but I guess the new coach people are talking about even helped him get to a even new level.

The best climber of all time and thats just pure fact.

Which also makes him the greatest of all time now idc Merckx would look like Benoot next to him uphill. Sorry not sorry. What am i watching...o_O
 
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