Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[RedheadDane]

The recipe guy.

Who?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

You mocked Vingegaard for always looking behind, well, today Pogacar must have a stiff neck, after looking so much to behind on Col perthus.

The disease must be contagious...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Who?

Häagen-Bazs or whatever he's called. He's British.

 

[RedheadDane]

Häagen-Bazs or whatever he's called. He's British.

So, obviously not commentating on Danish Eurosport...

But there could have been someone at Danish ES with those initials, what do I know? Not like I'm watching through there...

 

[SHAD0W93]

You mocked Vingegaard for always looking behind, well, today Pogacar must have a stiff neck, after looking so much to behind on Col perthus.

1 stage doesn’t equal 4 season to be fair. But Pogacar has plenty of stages left to close the gap.

 

[memyselfandI]

Häagen-Bazs or whatever he's called. He's British.

You mean English?

Jonathan Harris-Bass that is.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

You mean English?

Jonathan Harris-Bass that is.

I've never actually watched a race on British ES where he was on, so I wasn't sure was English.

 

[Ripper]

Great race Tadej!

Mmmmmm

 

[yaf]

Or is this the first sign of the Giro fatigue finally kicking in? Would be wierd if not afterall its never been done in modern time for a reason my guess would go towards that, its the most logical.

I dont think so, he isn't even on his 3rd week giro level and if u remember on the giro he wasn't that good for the 1st 2 weeks like on oropa and the 2 TTs it was just the competition who made him look good but come stage 15 he did one of the greatest cycling performace on foscagno. I heard him saying after todays stage his training was mainly based on the long climbs. Idk how this training things work but atleast his giro performances suggested a variance in performance along different stage profiles

 

[Peyroteo94]

I expect big things from him in Plateau de Beille. I just want him to play defensively in Adet to just nuke the day after.

 

[memyselfandI]

I've never actually watched a race on British ES where he was on, so I wasn't sure was English.

He's typically been mostly or solely on TdF because of his expertise on French food and winery and general knowledge of regions cultural history. Imho he's very funny in his repertoires, absolutely pleasant voice. He and Carton K at this are above the others, way above the others - as much as people hate Carlton - carrying the audience over (overly boring) stages like yesterday was.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I expect big things from him in Plateau de Beille. I just want him to play defensively in Adet to just nuke the day after.

Pyrenees are looming large! There could be fireworks during those stages. Vingo is likely to attack IMO - it's time to make up some time for him, he won't wait till the final weekend after today's confidence boost. Pogi? Not sure, maybe more defensive ride and trying to counter, if possible.

 

[Blanco]

So what happened to The Goat today? He ran to another one it seems...

 

[CyclistAbi]

Fatigue is starting to kick in and it will likely only get worse, especially if keep ignoring.

 

[Valv.Piti]

I think Roglic fans should jyst be happy that he's not 5 minutes down instead because Pog and Vingegaard really doesn't care that much.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Didn't see much of the stage sadly, just a little shortened bit of the last 14k or so on ES.

This does not bode well for Pogacar, he can only hope this was a bad day, but than again if it's not a good day maybe try not to attack and overcook than. Probably just not in his mentality.

As for Vingegaard I think he made a mistake not trying to attack him right away, yet he can probably smell blood now. Pretty insane how good he is given the run up. Who know's maybe they'll both blow up and Remco takes it to stun us all. (But yeah, realistically, I hate to say it, it looks like Vingegaard is the guy to beat)

 

[Miss Violet Smith]

July is the cruellest month to be a Pogačar fan.

 

[Medvind]

The long mountains, I just dont see anyone following him. Unless ofc the Giro and ngl thats the worriesome part one shouldnt underestimate it.

You serious?

 

[Peyroteo94]

July is the cruellest month to be a Pogačar fan.

And still won 2 Tours. What to say about the other slovenian?

 

[YavorD]

And still won 2 Tours. What to say about the other slovenian?

Well, he's won only one Tour in july.

 

[Poursuivant]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1811040639661817974

View: https://x.com/Cycling_Memes1/status/1811040639661817974

 

[scribers]

That remco and roglic clawed that close to the race leaders tells me a lot about the pogi situation. Something happened on the road. We shall find out how serious it is at a later point

 

[scribers]

I think pogi let Vingo win. It was humanitarian kindness and Vingo grew in that moment in his recovery. Saint Pogi

 

[Savant12]

Pog needs to let his team do more work. Surely, he's realized now that he can't attack Vingo from 35km out and maintain a big gap.

 

[jono]

Pog needs to let his team do more work. Surely, he's realized now that he can't attack Vingo from 35km out and maintain a big gap.

I think it was worth a try on this stage, given how stage 4 played out, but now he knows better.