Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[YavorD]

Nah. He can win 4 monuments + WC, but without the Tour his season is a failure. That's how big standards with Pogacar are.

4 monuments + Worlds will never be a failure. It will be ~top 5 season in the history of sport

 

[yaf]

He has to get rid of van der Poel, Pedersen and van Aert to win. In a sprint all three are normally stronger..

The climbs are easier than E3 and Tour of Flanders and are further off the finish line, so I would say it´s the most difficult one out of the three to win for him...

Gent is quite similar to E3 in terms of difficulty except the oude in E3. he can open the race early and make it an attrition race. His problem is Wva who doesn't have the ba*** to work with either of pog or mvdp like we saw in 2023 E3

 

[Peyroteo94]

He must win the Vuelta now. We don't know for how long he will be the alpha wolf. He already won a WC, he should win the Vuelta. And Vuelta is more prestigious than WC.

 

[Peyroteo94]

4 monuments + Worlds will never be a failure. It will be ~top 5 season in the history of sport

It will be if he doesn't win the Tour. Mark my words.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I just saw the moose antler handlebars on the new Colnago Y1RS, and I just wanted to say this is just brilliant stuff, Ernie, you magnificent git wizard.
Coolnago forever.

 

[Salvarani]

Classics, Dauphine + Tour and then Worlds + Lombardia sounds great to me if it were to happen.

 

[YavorD]

It will be if he doesn't win the Tour. Mark my words.

In front of whom? If anyone considers 4 monuments+WC a failure, he is deluded.

 

[Peyroteo94]

In front of whom? If anyone considers 4 monuments+WC a failure, he is deluded.

Not me for sure but there are a couple of Pogi haters here.

 

[scribers]

If that were true to the point of it actually being a fact of cycling, Pogi would just ride a Bruyneel schedule with a gentle build up to July. Thankfully, the classics and monuments mean something in today's cycling

 

[scribers]

I just saw the moose antler handlebars on the new Colnago Y1RS, and I just wanted to say this is just brilliant stuff, Ernie, you magnificent git wizard.
Coolnago forever.

$10 says that *** splits in half on a rider in the pro peloton.

 

[James M]

Their talking about the treble (Giro-Tour, Vuelta) still now with the answer ''not this year'' implying many times he will go for it.

I think next year maybe actually or the year after we might have that window, they say he will go for it once and I doubt its after he is 30. Age wice it make sense.

 

[sam6]

Their talking about the treble (Giro-Tour, Vuelta) still now with the answer ''not this year'' implying many times he will go for it.

I think next year maybe actually or the year after we might have that window, they say he will go for it once and I doubt its after he is 30. Age wice it make sense.

It will be in 2029. Pogi will be 30 exactly, the Worlds are in Denmark which will be totally flat. 25/26/27 he will have good course in the worlds so will target that and LA Olympics should be hilly and suit him which will be a target. 2029 will be the year he does all 3

 

[James M]

It will be in 2029. Pogi will be 30 exactly, the Worlds are in Denmark which will be totally flat. 25/26/27 he will have good course in the worlds so will target that and LA Olympics should be hilly and suit him which will be a target. 2029 will be the year he does all 3

Indeed that the WC route plays a vital part into that equation, but so does age.
Your timespan is logical for sure but lets see if its a year before if he should win all WC before. Im just intrigued it seems like its locked he will go for it once, history and all that..

 

[Peyroteo94]

It will be in 2029. Pogi will be 30 exactly, the Worlds are in Denmark which will be totally flat. 25/26/27 he will have good course in the worlds so will target that and LA Olympics should be hilly and suit him which will be a target. 2029 will be the year he does all 3

2028 will be in Abu Dhabi. 2 consecutive WC? I don't believe that.

 

[sam6]

2028 will be in Abu Dhabi. 2 consecutive WC? I don't believe that.

It's in Denmark https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/de...-host-2029-and-2030-road-world-championships/
And tbf there won't have been a flat worlds from 2017 to 2028 so the sprinters are due some

 

[Peyroteo94]

It's in Denmark https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/de...-host-2029-and-2030-road-world-championships/
And tbf there won't have been a flat worlds from 2017 to 2028 so the sprinters are due some

2 consecutive flat WC? There are hills in Denmark? This is dreadful...

 

[Peyroteo94]

Narvaez will race the Tour and Belgian classics. I think he is replacing Ayuso in the Tour.
Something like:
Pogi
Yates
Almeida
Sivakov
Soler
Politt
Wellens
Narvaez

 

[2WpK]

More cobbled races this spring. We all know what this is leading to. Win MSR, Tour and WC in 25 then full PR and Vuelta program in 26.

 

[Tymek]

I’m more a reader than writer on this forums, but I just wonder why many of you guys assume that he will only do a one GT, which is Tour de France. They’ve said that he is doing Tour de France and Giro or Vuelta.
As a I said before I just wonder why this assumption has been made. I’ll be very greatful if you explain.

In my opinion he will do TdF and Vuelta. Giro is to close to Classics.
Have a good night everybody (or day if there’s somebody not from Europe 😉).

Ps. I’m also impressed how everyone respect each others on this forums. I’m from Poland and in our cycling community almost nobody have respect to other opinions.

 

[James M]

I’m more a reader than writer on this forums, but I just wonder why many of you guys assume that he will only do a one GT, which is Tour de France. They’ve said that he is doing Tour de France and Giro or Vuelta.
As a I said before I just wonder why this assumption has been made. I’ll be very greatful if you explain.

In my opinion he will do TdF and Vuelta. Giro is to close to Classics.
Have a good night everybody (or day if there’s somebody not from Europe 😉).

Ps. I’m also impressed how everyone respect each others on this forums. I’m from Poland and in our cycling community almost nobody have respect to other opinions.

Greetings and warm welcome. Ur also right that he will do the Vuelta is very very likely barring any missfortunes.
(he is not gonne race less days than last year when he said he wanted more than that)

Maybe using it as leverage to negotiating higher fee and mini games nothing more. Its like when your fooling around with girls you need to have some mysteri and hard to get wibes let em know whos the alpha.

Barring missfortunes indeed he will be at the start and win the Vuelta while prepping for the WC in the fashion weve come accustomed to

 

[scribers]

I’m more a reader than writer on this forums, but I just wonder why many of you guys assume that he will only do a one GT, which is Tour de France. They’ve said that he is doing Tour de France and Giro or Vuelta.
As a I said before I just wonder why this assumption has been made. I’ll be very greatful if you explain.

In my opinion he will do TdF and Vuelta. Giro is to close to Classics.
Have a good night everybody (or day if there’s somebody not from Europe 😉).

Ps. I’m also impressed how everyone respect each others on this forums. I’m from Poland and in our cycling community almost nobody have respect to other opinions.

It has been said by our guiding phropet @mou that the team will wait to see how hard the tour is on him before deciding on the vuelta. They really want a strong crack at the WC ITT and RR + Lombardia and will sacrifice the vuelta for it.

 

[Mina.S]

Not sure how widely it is being reported but he is bringing in his long time friend Ziga Jerman as his soigneur? Formerly at Ineos.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I’m more a reader than writer on this forums, but I just wonder why many of you guys assume that he will only do a one GT, which is Tour de France. They’ve said that he is doing Tour de France and Giro or Vuelta.
As a I said before I just wonder why this assumption has been made. I’ll be very greatful if you explain.

In my opinion he will do TdF and Vuelta. Giro is to close to Classics.
Have a good night everybody (or day if there’s somebody not from Europe 😉).

Ps. I’m also impressed how everyone respect each others on this forums. I’m from Poland and in our cycling community almost nobody have respect to other opinions.

People are saying he will only race the Tour because his racing program is very heavy and doing 2 GTs in a row is very tough to your body. You must be fresh and prepare wisely this feat (Tour-Vuelta) in order to not have a burnout.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Not sure how widely it is being reported but he is bringing in his long time friend Ziga Jerman as his soigneur? Formerly at Ineos.

What will this change? I think nothing

 

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