Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[Lequack]

Now he can't take the jersey off no matter where he goes

 

[Oldermanish]

Not like this it was unique and will go down for decades. In order to win like this yeah it goes without saying.

What a champion even I was taken by surprise like everyone else of how he did it, unheard of in cycling today.

Definitely unheard of in the over-managed sport that we've seen, particularly in GTs. I don't hate to keep saying the same f*ckn' thang: ditch the radios, the wattage obsessed/controlled efforts and you will see more of the heroic escapades.
Merckx has spoken: "greatest of all time". That's gonna go down really hard with many other fan-hyped Heroes. Hopefully Tadej doesn't get to much of the inevitable hatred that comes with doing a great thing in, as he put it: a "stupid" way.
Here's to more, adventurous stupidity! I hope it is all real.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Merckx had five major wins in 1971 and 1972.

• 1971: Tour, WC, three monuments.
• 1972: Tour, Giro, three monuments.

Pogacar now has four major wins in 2024. If he wants to have the best season of all time he needs to win Lombardia as well.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Definitely unheard of in the over-managed sport that we've seen, particularly in GTs. I don't hate to keep saying the same f*ckn' thang: ditch the radios, the wattage obsessed/controlled efforts and you will see more of the heroic escapades.
Merckx has spoken: "greatest of all time". That's gonna go down really hard with many other fan-hyped Heroes. Hopefully Tadej doesn't get to much of the inevitable hatred that comes with doing a great thing in, as he put it: a "stupid" way.
Here's to more, adventurous stupidity! I hope it is all real.

No radios help Pogacar instead of riders more robotics like Vingegaard. I found very curious when Pogacar told Politt how Vingegaard seems nervous when he doesn't have teammates with him.

 

[Gargamel35]

No radios help Pogacar instead of riders more robotics like Vingegaard. I found very curious when Pogacar told Politt how Vingegaard seems nervous when he doesn't have teammates with him.

He's used for someone holding his hand. At home and right after the finish line, it's his wife. During the race, there are teammates.

 

[James M]

He's used for someone holding his hand. At home and right after the finish line, it's his wife. During the race, there are teammates.

Why did that make me laugh so much the visual picture i got from that haha. The picture of him is painted some sorta that way though granted I obv get it was a joke.

 

[Peyroteo94]

He's used for someone holding his hand. At home and right after the finish line, it's his wife. During the race, there are teammates.

He is very offensive when he needs to deliver but sometimes he plays "following the plan" card when he could just animate the race.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Now he can't take the jersey off no matter where he goes

Has to wear it as often as possible before it’s replaced by a leaders jersey.

 

[James M]

What we saw yesterday while weve seen it all year during Liege, Giro and the Tour one woulda thought he actually couldnt shock more,,kinda disbelief what we saw still. Hard to grasp

Like he says the physical superiority is insane.

"We've seen riders do ridiculous things in recent years, but the physical difference, the superiority with which he rides..." - Thijs Zonneveld on Tadej Pogacar

As if it was ever really in doubt, Tadej Pogacar emp

cyclinguptodate.com

 

[Peyroteo94]

Has to wear it as often as possible before it’s replaced by a leaders jersey.

It will be orgasmic seeing him winning monuments with rainbow jersey. I have some kind of fetish with that. Maybe because I loved Bettini, Tommeke, Sagan (and love MVP). It is something special, just need a rainbow jersey winning LBL and MSR, I don't remember seeing that.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

It will be orgasmic seeing him winning monuments with rainbow jersey. I have some kind of fetish with that. Maybe because I loved Bettini, Tommeke, Sagan (and love MVP). It is something special, just need a rainbow jersey winning LBL and MSR, I don't remember seeing that.

Literally happened last year

 

[Peyroteo94]

Literally happened last year

Completely forgot about Remco, lol

 

[Pantani_lives]

Literally happened last year

Right. Saronni remains the last winner of MS in the rainbow jersey.

 

[mlescanojr]

Merckx had five major wins in 1971 and 1972.

• 1971: Tour, WC, three monuments.
• 1972: Tour, Giro, three monuments.

Pogacar now has four major wins in 2024. If he wants to have the best season of all time he needs to win Lombardia as well.

Really?

One Giro = 1 monument?

I don't agree.

His season ALREADY is the best of all time.

But make no mistake, he will win Lombardia again, in a stomping fashion nonetheless.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Did you see the route for Rwanda 2025 Worlds?

268 km
5,475m of vertical

I loved it.

Pogacar must be licking his chops.

Do you have the TT's route?

 

[mlescanojr]

Do you have the TT's route?

Here:

 

[scribers]

That has pogi written all over it

 

[Pippo_San]

Merckx had five major wins in 1971 and 1972.

• 1971: Tour, WC, three monuments.
• 1972: Tour, Giro, three monuments.

Pogacar now has four major wins in 2024. If he wants to have the best season of all time he needs to win Lombardia as well.

If someone showed this to him, and you bet that happened, Pogi will be in full focus for a Lombardia total smash.
#goat 👊

 

[Peyroteo94]

Here:

So hilly, this is perfect for Pogacar. Only Vingegaard can beat him

 

[Peyroteo94]

If someone showed this to him, and you bet that happened, Pogi will be in full focus for a Lombardia total smash.
#goat 👊

Remco is "overweight" now for a climbing course. As strange as it gets, Enric Mas is Pogacar's biggest threat but with this UAE, I don't see where is Pogacar not a winner of 2024 Lombardia.
Their lineup will have something like this:
Pogacar
Ayuso
Yates
Majka
Novak
Wellens
Sivakov

 

[Peyroteo94]

Really?

One Giro = 1 monument?

I don't agree.

His season ALREADY is the best of all time.

But make no mistake, he will win Lombardia again, in a stomping fashion nonetheless.

Lombardia really seems easy to win even in this eaiser route. Sormano has a 10 km stretch at 7% and a final 1.5km at 9%. UAE will just muder everyone before Pogacar's attack at 1km to the top.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Here:

Pogacar gonna win this easily if he wants to.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar gonna win this easily if he wants to.

It's the perfect opportunity for a double WC. He will be clearly the number one favourite for both races and after seeing 2024 Zurich road race, I can see him destroying the field in Kigali with 90 km to the finish line

 

[Rob5091]

Goat, schmoat, pish posh and other disparaging clichés. The guy has won all these easy peasy, warm up races against farmers, now comes the one he'll have to put on his big boy pants for - dell'Emilia.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Pogacar is retiring after the 2036 season on my pcm22 save.

He's ridden for UAE for three seasons, then he joined Alpecin for 2025 &26, a random pro-conti for 27 & 28 before joining Jumbo-Visma in 29 & 30, Trek for 31, another random WTT for 32 & 33, Noro Novodisk for 34 before ending his career with the conti team: LNER (at this point in a british conti team)

In that time period he's won 163 races.
4 Tours 20,21,22,23 (podiums in 24, 25, 26) & 28 stage wins
1 Giro & 9 stage wins
2 Vueltas & 7 stage wins

1 euro championship & 3 worlds podiums
5 monuments (3 lombardy, 2 Liege)
2 AG & 1 Fleche

3 Tour Suisse
1 Basque
2 TA & Catalyuna

He won a 100 races in the first five years of the save & his stats started to decrease..combined with his poor team selection meant he only won 48 in the last ten.


meanwhile in PCM 2024
Its 2031 & he never left UAE.
235 wins
6 Tours & 34 stages
1 Giro
Hasn't done the Vuelta since 2019
He won the worlds in 2024
14 times national champ
9 Monuments & 3 Strades
2 Fleche, 1 AMG, 1 San Seb, 3 montreals & a Quebec
3 TA, 2 Dauphines, 1 Suisse
5 Basques, 4 PN, 3 UAE, 2 Cata, Belgium

he's basically winning one in three races he starts.