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Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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Important indicator is overall team performance. If the team is super far ahead of everyone else as well, then it's more likely other teams will catch up at some point.
I don't think UAE is that superior to other teams. They have better riders but the only rider to make a huge leap was in fact Pogacar.
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Do you think these guys are so much better this year compared to last year? I don't think so.
Of course UAE won a lot more this year but it is mainly because they have better riders and a very deep team so they collect a lot of small races.
 
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I didn't think UAE is that superior to other teams. They have better riders but the only rider to make a huge leap was in fact Pogacar.
Yates
Almeida
Ayuso
McNulty
Vine
Hirschi
Wellens
Do you think these guys are so much better this year compared to last year? I don't think so.
Of course UAE won a lot more this year but it is mainly because they have better riders and a very deep team so they collect a lot of small races.
Yes, they have a very talented team and the greatest rider ever in their ranks. Of course, they are many winning races.

They race aggressive and it is very entertaining. Thank god this team exists.
 
Turning back any advance from a healthy Vingo will at least be UAE’s biggest goal of 2025. Pogi is usually slightly less interested. I’m guessing he’ll want to repeat Flanders, prevail in MSR, win the vuelta, and try to retain his WC stripes for 2026 as his biggest goals.
Why would you assume he’s less interested? In his recent podcast, he said (paraphrasing) that Tour is the greatest race of all, whoever wins the Tour is the best and he will race the Tour until he rides his bike professionally.

Do we have any indications from Pog he’s not that much into Tour besides our own projections?
 
Why would you assume he’s less interested? In his recent podcast, he said (paraphrasing) that Tour is the greatest race of all, whoever wins the Tour is the best and he will race the Tour until he rides his bike professionally.

Do we have any indications from Pog he’s not that much into Tour besides our own projections?
Comrade @mou has said as much the tour is his employment work, but his interest is in other races.
 
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Yes, it is stupid when you have Pogacar in the peloton. Like you can see, he changed his opinion... it was so obvious that even him couldn't maintain that stupid take. Remco is great, a generational talent but Pogacar is Pogacar, sorry. There isn't even a comparison
You are acting as if the season Pogacar had this year was already written in the stars and everyone would know this would happen.
 
Yes, it is stupid when you have Pogacar in the peloton. Like you can see, he changed his opinion... it was so obvious that even him couldn't maintain that stupid take. Remco is great, a generational talent but Pogacar is Pogacar, sorry. There isn't even a comparison
It's called the availability bias. Events in recent memory are considered more important. He was not the only one saying this about Remco btw. De Gendt for example was also clear about this. They experienced it of course first hand ... in their legs actually. The same bias is currently experienced by many about Pogacar, including the great Eddy Merckx. Don't be surprised to hear something else again in a few years.
 
You are acting as if the season Pogacar had this year was already written in the stars and everyone would know this would happen.
When Evenepoel won Velo d'Or it was both well deserved and also still quite obvious Pogacar was a better rider and that Pog was just very inefficient in converting his ability to big wins while Evenepoel went 3/3 in big targets.
 
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.

To be able go at 100km left and stay away. Its almost impossible to understand if you have not been a pro cyclist to get just how much better/stronger than everyone he is to be to be able to do that.