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Are you sure about that? Watch stage 15 again. Pogacar was following Vingegaard's attack so easily he could sit up no hands to take a drink. Then when he decided to go Jonas had absolutely no answer. That and everything that followed in the 3rd week was with a Giro in Pogacar's legs which I say cancels Vingegaard's crash. Pogacar will be fresh for the 2025 rematch. The gap is enormous.
I love this numbers fixation...He clearly may have had some of those outputs at selective times but he didn't have the base to finish like he'd had before. He had to rely on Mateo to drag him back to Pogi's wheel on the flats, which doesn't sound like a prospective Tour winner. He was missing something then and hasn't raced since. Optimism alone doesn't tell us where he'll be. We all hope it'll be a return to form but the experiences of Remco, Bernal, Roglic...show that just getting on the bike doesn't replace the needed prep for winning a GT.
Vingegaard also killed himself more frequently by always going the long way to try and respond to Pogacar’s attacks.
A clear sign of lacking immediate response ability (recovery) and a certain uncertainty about his own form. You don't know what you haven't tested and Visma's rush to please sponsors and their contract incentives showed in a big way. Jonas isn't built to get used like that and perform well. He probably was convinced of his "numbers" prior to the Tour but he was not prepared. That critics of Pogacar cite Jonas' breakthrough wattage metrics to confirm some illicit supplementation by Tadej is pure BS. Unless the teams are willingly handing audited data for consideration it's all speculation by guys timing the climbs on videos. What about every other effort? To your accurate observation; being late to respond is not a good sign.
Yup. But he must prepare for that during his career. He can't match Pogacar’s acceleration so he better build a huge engine to catch Pogacar later. I think the TT in Caen will be very important to Vingegaard and Pogacar. This will determine race dynamics.
IF he wins MSR and RVV I can see him trying Paris-Roubaix as well
What? 🤣 visma knew they cant win against him 1vs1 so they bring 2 of the best gc riders in the world and attacked him left and right on stage 11 and since he was a kid he tried to respond to every attack as a result cracked on granon, he tried an all out desperate attack on stage 18 attacked ving 5 times on spandels brought him all the way up the climb leads him all the way down the descent(and crashed in the process) and paid for it on hautacam.
It's not true, except for Plateau de beille.
Oh darn, maybe you are right. It would make sense he would wear his world champs stripes
there are some interesting quotes from gianetti floating around. They are leaning two grand tours again. Sounding like giro/tour double again. Throws water on the P-R talk for this year, so a big no straight from the horses mouth.
That's crazy money for a sport without a league and shared broadcast revenue.
Mate, In 2022 there was not much difference between them their level was almost equal but pog had the edge on the last meters of a mountain stage with his punch which was the case on that entire tour. But pog was overconfident in himself and made so many mistakes. If you are honest do you think ving would still beat him if pog raced that tour smartly like the way visma and ving did all the tours? Like if he just follows ving &out sprints him on mountains? I'm sure he wins with bonus seconds like roglic usually does but fortunately for us fans he is the entertainer & born racer.
Vingegaard attacked twice and dropped Pogacar twice. Pogacar attacked 20 times and didn't drop Vingegaard once. Simply based on that I tend to believe that Vingegaard could've dropped Pogacar on another mountain stage had he tried.
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