Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[hayneplane]

I don't know how emphasis on MSR would look like. It's always easy to fit in his schedule and his form at the season start is ridiculous anyway. It's simply that MSR is super hard to win.

If anything can help they should send a hyper-strong team there.

Emphasis to me would mean focusing his spring peak to be mid March for MSR rather than the traditional approach of bring very good for MSR but trying to peak for RVV-PR or LBL.

 

[Rob5091]

As the Tour is to Roglic, so MSR is to Pogacar ....or so it seems.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

If UAE can set up Pogi to win at 80km to go at Strade Bianche, then why not from Finale Ligure or somewhere along the coast. The hope would be that no one would want to help drag sprinters back.

Because MSR is not Strade, which is an attritional race with decent dose of climbing. When Pog attacked 80 km to go everyone was at their limit and the gap exploded thanks to his superior engine. Try the same on mostly flat MSR route.

 

[Salvarani]

Because MSR is not Strade, which is an attritional race with decent dose of climbing. When Pog attacked 80 km to go everyone was at their limit and the gap exploded thanks to his superior engine. Try the same on mostly flat MSR route.

He attacked at the toughest and hardest point of the race in SB, after UAE had drilled it from the very beginning of the race. Where they had alreade covered multiple gravel sections with climbs.

It is not comparable to MSR at all where it is just flat for a long portion of the race, as you allude to as well.

 

[scribers]

I see msr as worse than flat as mostly all downhill from a higher elevation

 

[Peyroteo94]

He attacked at the toughest and hardest point of the race in SB, after UAE had drilled it from the very beginning of the race. Where they had alreade covered multiple gravel sections with climbs.

It is not comparable to MSR at all where it is just flat for a long portion of the race, as you allude to as well.

MSR is very easy despite having a 290 km course.

 

[Lequack]

It's too easy actually.