Pogacar will do the NC ITT and road race slovenia. The ITT is the same profil 2020. The mountain itt
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Nice. Although UAE have the worst netional jerseys ever, hardly even different from the regular jersey.
Pogacar will do the NC ITT and road race slovenia. The ITT is the same profil 2020. The mountain itt
I've heard some rumors, that he might still do the tour of Slovenia... I guess it could be a "promotional training ride", but he would probably win it on an unicycle without using his arms at all anyway.
I would stay away from races with many non-pro teams and riders so close to the tour bc of covid.
The hard thing for Pogacar is that the Tour has more difficult stages in the first week then I can remember in any other edition. So even if he's at 95% he can loose here some time and the later mountain stages are better for Vingegaard. Normally you would expect Pogacar to gain some time in the first week and then he has to try to fight of the aggression of Vingegaard.If Pogacar is not in at least good form this tdF will be extremely boring as I don't see anyone who can do anything against Vingegaard.
Pogacar will be ready in July since day one but I really think he would win the Tour if his crash did not happen. Now, I'm not sure if he can follow Vingegaard
UAE Emirates bullish on Tadej Pogačar hitting Tour de France form: 'We remain very optimistic'
Team performance chief lifts lid on Pogačar's physiological prowess: 'His big strength is his ability to recover and adapt.'www.velonews.com
Jeroen Swart, performance coordinator at UAE remain optimistic.
The question is that I just see one anti Pogacar stage..and that day just people as Vingegaard or maybe Landa if he is on one of his magical moments could beat him if he doesnt make mistakes like last year. The rest are stages, even first ones in Pais Vasco, where he can get time. Anyway he has difficult to beat Vingegard, but it will be a great battle.I think the Tour is going to be much more condensed in terms of GC than last year, at least over the first part of the race.
Granon really did nuke the time gaps in every direction last year. I'm not sure the route in 2023 favors these sorts of massive differences, so there are other ways for Pog to win in July as well, i.e. for example tactically.
I think a lot of people look at the Vinge versus Pog duel & believe it all comes down to relative strength of one versus the other but the parcours (& serious lack of ITT km's) will make this TdF a little bit more 'precarious' for the pre-race super favorites, at least IMO.
Even stage 1 in Bilbao looks like a potential screw-up just waiting to happen if one of the favorites has some bad positioning in the final.
and avoiding crowds and Covid.He lost 2-3 weeks of training. Spending time on the altitude is too precious right now.
Oh c'mon... Landa?The question is that I just see one anti Pogacar stage..and that day just people as Vingegaard or maybe Landa if he is on one of his magical moments could beat him if he doesnt make mistakes like last year. The rest are stages, even first ones in Pais Vasco, where he can get time. Anyway he has difficult to beat Vingegard, but it will be a great battle.
10. He is the only rider ever to have broken the 6,000 point ceiling for UCI points.
He was born in town called Klanec? Ffs 😋So, Cycling Weekly has been doing a series of "21 things you didn't know about [rider]", and today the turn has come to Pogacar:
21 things you didn't know about Tadej Pogačar
The chilled out former unicyclist with a penchant for cleaning up at the biggest races. Read on...www.cyclingweekly.com
Vingegaard basically said in an interview last week that the Tour is only thing that are important to him, and he'll go for Tour every year. I through the times with Lance Armstrong or Team Sky only riding for 1 goal a year was over, and new riders like Pogacar and Remco and their programs was the new normal. But I guess not.
I looked at his profile and even with his minimal classics riding it’s surprising he’s never been #1 in the rankings for any yearTeam Sky?
Froome actually tried 2 GTs almost every year
2011: 2nd Vuelta (later changed to 1st)
2012; 2nd TdF 4 Vuelta
2013 1 TdF, no Vuelta
2014: Out of Tour, 2nd Vuelta
2015: 1 Tour, out of Vuelta
2016: 1 Tour, 2 Vuelta
2017: 1 Tour 1 Vuelta
2018: 1 Giro, 3rd Tour
So basically except for the year he won his first Tour he tried to get the Vuelta win every year. Finally got it in 2017, and then what did he do? Go for only one goal? Which would have been the 5th Tour win? No, he tried the Giro-Tour double. Already Froome alone shows how ridiculous the "Sky only cared about the Tour" charge is.
The Giro less successful but tried with Wiggins in 13, Uran then got second, later Porte and Landa were there, crashing out basically.
Of course the Tour has always been Sky's most important goal, as it is for most, now with no Italian teams left probably all, teams aiming for GC in GTs..