Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[Salvarani]

Different year with different setbacks, you think he’ll ride this schedule when he’s 35? Sometime after a few years at the top people get tired. It’s important he recharges his battery

You make it seem like he can barely walk.

 

[Berniece]

You make it seem like he can barely walk.

Just saying he looked mentally tired, and if you keep going and going you might get burned out. Only a couple of days ago Reusser as top favourite just stopped during the ITT, and after the year Pogacar has had I see no reason why he would go for just another Lombardia win. Take time to recharge…

 

[Salvarani]

Just saying he looked mentally tired, and if you keep going and going you might get burned out. Only a couple of days ago Reusser as top favourite just stopped during the ITT, and after the year Pogacar has had I see no reason why he would go for just another Lombardia win. Take time to recharge…

What a great eye you must have. Nobody can tell or know that but Pog and those close to him. Of course, he is tired... he has just raced the Tour and then gone straight to worlds. RR was a big effort and a great performance. ITT he just showed up and rode through it. More like a harder training ride/recovery ride for him. He won the national title and with no Roglic or Mohoric present, it was probably more of an obligation for him to start more than anything else.

Lombardia is a monument and he has won it two times. No other monument is probably more suited to him and I bet he really likes the race. It is not any other one-day race on the calendar.

He has plenty of time to recover. 1-2 weeks off the bike and then start training/racing again.

If he wants to the end season, then I am sure he will have the option to. I would be surprised if he does though.

 

[Berniece]

What a great eye you must have. Nobody can tell or know that but Pog and those close to him.

Thanks Sherlock

 

[yaco]

Pogi had enough energy to hand out bottles for the Slovenian team in today's RR.

 

[Rob5091]

Pogi had enough energy to hand out bottles for the Slovenian team in today's RR.

I see that Mrs Pogacar was a DNF ... good to hear Mr Pogacar was out and about supporting the Mrs.

 

[iBanesto]

"You're not tired?" - Tadej Pogacar.

 

[Miss Violet Smith]

While I'm happy to hear Pogačar is back in training and hope to see him in a few more races this year (Bretagne, Il Lombardia etc), I would also totally understand any decision to end the season.

And it's perfectly clear that the 2023 Vuelta was never an option. That said, I cannot help thinking he would have enjoyed the current cold weather and rain in Spain.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Whats the point of doing Bretagne? Think its too early for sure.

Wouldn't go to Canada either, but don't know if thats the plan.

I'd just go for 3-5 Italian classics and call it

 

[Miss Violet Smith]

Whats the point of doing Bretagne? Think its too early for sure.

Wouldn't go to Canada either, but don't know if thats the plan.

I'd just go for 3-5 Italian classics and call it

Fully agree. Pogačar still on the preliminary start list for Bretagne, last I checked, but I expect he will withdraw. No other UAE team members listed.

Not sure about Canada.

ETA: Bretagne interesting for my own selfish pleasure😀, as I'm planning to go watch.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Pogačar has been removed from the PCS start list for Bretagne.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogačar has been removed from the PCS start list for Bretagne.

Still licking his wounds after titanic battles against Skeletor and Vans. He'll be fine come Italian classics.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Pogačar has been removed from the PCS start list for Bretagne.

PCS just make stuff up, don't use them as official source, they have casper perderson in bretagne startlist, will be hard to do that and la vuelta stage on the same day

 

[CyclistAbi]

Find Pogi.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Find Pogi.

Ironic that the team colours are yellow and black…

 

[Krzysztof_O]

@CyclistAbi One of those guys will beat Skeletor at the Tour one day: Pogi team will take revenge for recent losses!

 

[Mina.S]

Urska posted yesterday that she was back in Monaco but tested positive for COVID while Pog put on Strava he’s also in Monaco. I’m not sure if he’s sick but makes sense as to why he has dropped the race.

 

[bNator]

Find Pogi.

I was there. Not on the photo, just a proud dad of one of the little ones😁

Edit: actually, that‘s not from last week’s event, must be from one of the previous years…

 

[pelotonIQ]

https://cyclingpro.net/spaziociclismo/worldtour/uae-team-emirates-tadej-pogacar-rinuncia-alla-bretagne-classic-per-concentrarsi-su-il-lombardia/

 

[Elos Anjos]

"I wasn’t ready for all three weeks of racing" - Tadej Pogacar blames wrist fracture for Tour de France breakdown

Tadej Pogacar has ended a busy block of racing at the World

cyclinguptodate.com

 

[RedheadDane]

@CyclistAbi One of those guys will beat Skeletor at the Tour one day: Pogi team will take revenge for recent losses!

Yeah, when Vingegaard is 40... hardly fair.

 

[CyclistAbi]

So Il Lombardia it is then.

 

[Lorzenz08]

This is the price to pay to beat one of the greatest GT cyclist in history : super peak in July + give the performances of his life on a constant basis.

No wonder he's kinda cooked a month later....

 

[Peyroteo94]

Another win incoming. Lombardia is tailormade for him. He has 4 monuments and probably will have 5. He will, probably, surpass Boonen and Cancellara as the biggest monument winner in the modern era (since 1990). Truly remarkable.

 

[Sciatic]

This is the price to pay to beat one of the greatest GT cyclist in history : super peak in July + give the performances of his life on a constant basis.

No wonder he's kinda cooked a month later....

Watching Vingegaard’s TT performance today, I can imagine him thinking, “OMG I’m so glad I skipped the Vuelta”