Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[Salvarani]

Eddy says Pog is the GOAT

 

[Offline]

UAE should sign Primozic and give him one year with Sola and the UAE set-up.
Pogacar going to need climber domestique for next years worlds.

 

[Divergence]

Pogacar got a bit emotional talking about Urska

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZaWPnD0Zc

So that is why he attacked with 100km to go. He needed those kms to process all of his emotions. And even then it was not enough.

 

[Divergence]

It seemed to me that he was playing with the whole peloton yesterday. Letting them come to 40ish seconds and than gaining 15 sec back with 10 pedalstrokes.

 

[Miha81]

So that is why he attacked with 100km to go. He needed those kms to process all of his emotions. And even then it was not enough.

It was a loooong processing of emotions

 

[Salvarani]

It seemed to me that he was playing with the whole peloton yesterday. Letting them come to 40ish seconds and than gaining 15 sec back with 10 pedalstrokes.

Very good pacing.

Steady.

Instead of stop and go like the chase, who tired themselves out.

 

[vwpe]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840408537219924034

View: https://x.com/daniellloyd1/status/1840408537219924034?t=fF_xAALEhU9ETXRC2nfmrw&s=19


Daniel spitting facts, so glad training ride came into play

 

[vwpe]

Double WC in coming next year. TT is tailormade for him

After what in reality was a solo training ride for 100km against everyone, yes safe to say if he decide to enter.

Im not sure every people get how much stronger he actually needs to be to stay away for 100km.

 

[Salvarani]

After what in reality was a solo training ride for 100km against everyone, yes safe to say if he decide to enter.

Im not sure every people get how much stronger he actually needs to be to stay away for 100km.

He attacked from 100km out. But he didnt stay away from 100km on his own. The attack also was 170km into the race. Something that is easy to forget.

Tratnik towed him for some time and Sivakov worked with him until 51,5 to almost be exact.

His solo in SB by KMs alone was infact more than this one.

 

[vwpe]

“He’s the strongest rider of his generation. There is no doubt about that,” said the 79-year-old Merckx. “You know, it takes a lot to blow my socks off at my age. Well, Tadej has succeeded. I suspected he could be world champion, but never like this. He’s really the best – congratulations.”

« Attaquer à 100 km, il faut être fou » : Eddy Merckx bluffé par le triomphe de Tadej Pogacar aux Mondiaux

Le Slovène, qui a étrillé ses adversaires lors des Mondiaux de Zurich, marche sur les pas du « Cannibale ». Même si, de son propre aveu, le

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Not like this it was unique and will go down for decades. In order to win like this yeah it goes without saying.

What a champion even I was taken by surprise like everyone else of how he did it, unheard of in cycling today.

 

[ppanther92]

Take away Remco's aerodynamic package and he is a lesser rider.

Take away nothing and he is the lesser rider.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Take away Remco's aerodynamic package and he is a lesser rider.

True. Taking away aerodynamics means there is no air and all riders are lesser (dead)

 

[snipeheem]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840686846596009996

View: https://x.com/lucasaganronald/status/1840686846596009996

 

[Salvarani]

Eddy keeping it real.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I wasn't able to watch the race, but what a feat. I followed a ticker, and when he went at 100km's I thought nice, he's going to blow himself up. But he didn't. Tactically an amazing move, he was also clearly the strongest. Well deserved World Champion.

In my opinion it was a terrible move tactically. It was successful becuase well... he is Tadej, a lot stronger than everybody else.

 

[Miha81]

In my opinion it was a terrible move tactically. It was successful becuase well... he is Tadej, a lot stronger than everybody else.

The fact that chasing group attacked each other, was not really cooperating after Belgium train blew up and absence of radios was also in his favour. Fortune favoured the bold this time.

 

[Peyroteo94]

The fact that chasing group attacked each other, was not really cooperating after Belgium train blew up and absence of radios was also in his favour. Fortune favoured the bold this time.

Yeah, but you put everybody else in Tadej's position and they would be caught.

 

[Miha81]

Yeah, but you put everybody else in Tadej's position and they would be caught.

Probably so. The only rider I can see pulling this kind of attack is Remco in top shape. But that would not work as Pog would be all over him like a cheap suit if roles would be reversed.

 

[Gargamel35]

Yeah, but you put everybody else in Tadej's position and they would be caught.

That's why he's the GOAT.

 

[James M]

‘It’s obvious that he is now above me’ – Eddy Merckx hails Tadej Pogačar after Worlds exhibition

Belgian suggests Pogačar is now the greatest cyclist of all time

www.cyclingnews.com

The boy is writting history every race. The godfather has even bowed to the new king. What a time to be alive. What we saw yesterday im still kinda shocked...100km to go, its insanity in this era just ludicrous how strong he is.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

In my opinion it was a terrible move tactically. It was successful becuase well... he is Tadej, a lot stronger than everybody else.

pretty much.

Tactically Pogacar is no miracle lol. He's just so preposterously strong it works 99% of the time

 

[Gargamel35]

pretty much.

Tactically Pogacar is no miracle lol. He's just so preposterously strong it works 99% of the time

Tactics are for weak.

 

[Lequack]

Pogacar got a bit emotional talking about Urska

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZaWPnD0Zc

 

[Krzysztof_O]

pretty much.

Tactically Pogacar is no miracle lol. He's just so preposterously strong it works 99% of the time

Teddy always solves problems by simply pushing more watts. Who are we to question his tactical masterclass?

 

[James M]

In modern day cycling in this era...its hard to descripe what we witnessed yesterday just like the numbers and fashion he did it in the Giro-Tour.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840408584707858936

View: https://x.com/StatsOnCycling/status/1840408584707858936