Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[Peyroteo94]

MSR would be amazing and is doable IMO but agree Remco stands a chance to beat him at LBL.

On fatigue, yes you are right, but we all thought fatigue would catch up to Pogi after winning the Giro-Tour double in emphatic fashion. But then he went on to be jaw droppingly beyond belief dominant in winning the worlds and Lombardia. If he was feeling fatigued it didn't show on the road.

Not against peak Pogacar. However he will have a chance due to Pogacar not focusing on peaking to LBL

 

[Peyroteo94]

I think P-R omission is waiting out mvp. The uae tour is an employer thing.

PR doesn't fit in his racing program. He needs muscles against WVA and MVP

 

[Rob5091]

I don't know how emphasis on MSR would look like. It's always easy to fit in his schedule and his form at the season start is ridiculous anyway. It's simply that MSR is super hard to win.

If anything can help they should send a hyper-strong team there.

If UAE can set up Pogi to win at 80km to go at Strade Bianche, then why not from Finale Ligure or somewhere along the coast. The hope would be that no one would want to help drag sprinters back.

 

[hayneplane]

I don't know how emphasis on MSR would look like. It's always easy to fit in his schedule and his form at the season start is ridiculous anyway. It's simply that MSR is super hard to win.

If anything can help they should send a hyper-strong team there.

Emphasis to me would mean focusing his spring peak to be mid March for MSR rather than the traditional approach of bring very good for MSR but trying to peak for RVV-PR or LBL.

 

[Rob5091]

As the Tour is to Roglic, so MSR is to Pogacar ....or so it seems.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

If UAE can set up Pogi to win at 80km to go at Strade Bianche, then why not from Finale Ligure or somewhere along the coast. The hope would be that no one would want to help drag sprinters back.

Because MSR is not Strade, which is an attritional race with decent dose of climbing. When Pog attacked 80 km to go everyone was at their limit and the gap exploded thanks to his superior engine. Try the same on mostly flat MSR route.

 

[Salvarani]

Because MSR is not Strade, which is an attritional race with decent dose of climbing. When Pog attacked 80 km to go everyone was at their limit and the gap exploded thanks to his superior engine. Try the same on mostly flat MSR route.

He attacked at the toughest and hardest point of the race in SB, after UAE had drilled it from the very beginning of the race. Where they had alreade covered multiple gravel sections with climbs.

It is not comparable to MSR at all where it is just flat for a long portion of the race, as you allude to as well.

 

[scribers]

I see msr as worse than flat as mostly all downhill from a higher elevation

 

[Peyroteo94]

He attacked at the toughest and hardest point of the race in SB, after UAE had drilled it from the very beginning of the race. Where they had alreade covered multiple gravel sections with climbs.

It is not comparable to MSR at all where it is just flat for a long portion of the race, as you allude to as well.

MSR is very easy despite having a 290 km course.

 

[Lequack]

It's too easy actually.

 

[2WpK]

MSR, ciciban race

 

[Rob5091]

Because MSR is not Strade, which is an attritional race with decent dose of climbing. When Pog attacked 80 km to go everyone was at their limit and the gap exploded thanks to his superior engine. Try the same on mostly flat MSR route.

So he'll have to go with the plan of having a guy up the road and attack from 100 km out! Maybe we should ask mou who claims to know all things Pogi/UAE but I can't think of anything else they have not tried at MSR (apart from the team blocking off the road to let Pogi ride off on his own).

 

[Peyroteo94]

UAE will release his racing program in Alicante on December 10th.

 

[Poursuivant]

So he'll have to go with the plan of having a guy up the road and attack from 100 km out! Maybe we should ask mou who claims to know all things Pogi/UAE but I can't think of anything else they have not tried at MSR (apart from the team blocking off the road to let Pogi ride off on his own).

I think 2025 he will attack on the Cipressa.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I think 2025 he will attack on the Cipressa.

He may try Cipressa attack one year indeed. Next year? Maybe.
UAE should bring a ridiculously strong team to pace those mole hills like crazy.

 

[Wyndbrook]

He may try Cipressa attack one year indeed. Next year? Maybe.
UAE should bring a ridiculously strong team to pace those mole hills like crazy.

They had a dress rehearsal this year, only Del Toro seemed strong enough though.

 

[Peyroteo94]

They had a dress rehearsal this year, only Del Toro seemed strong enough though.

Next year, team will not be a problem. Dead weight is already gone from UAE.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

WTF is this monstrosity? New UAE team bike?

 

[Peyroteo94]

WTF is this monstrosity? New UAE team bike?

I think so and it is ready to win a lot in 2025

 

[Lequack]

WTF is this monstrosity? New UAE team bike?

Oh no, they made an ugly bike.

 

[AmRacer]

Oh no, they made an ugly bike.

Ugly fast

 

[scribers]

Is it ugly tho?

 

[Lequack]

Is it ugly tho?

Just look at it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8GhC-T_Mo

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I think so and it is ready to win a lot in 2025

Proving once again that "it's not about the bike."

 

[AmRacer]

It's WTF fast.