Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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Romain Bardet said in this French interview that Pogi didnt know how to train up to 2024 lol

"I'm surprised, but at the same time, he put together the immense potential that we saw in him. Apparently, he didn't know how to train. Now he knows." "He's so superior... It's hard to explain. I don't spend a lot of time looking for explanations."
It baffled me they didnt do any basic specific training such as intervalls 4 X 3mintue VO2 max sessions - after long endurance blocks to induce more fatigue beforehand. Or lactate and fatigue metabolite clearence training such as 3x15minutes at tempo for long blocks at 80% and 6 x 15 second sprints every 10min, again into endurance blocks, which has come to light he does alot now.

The gap in numbers from him to everyone else now is gigantic in all metrics.. Nvm everything else within various training methods which has been highlighted as day and night from before, to positioning and basic stuff.
I believe his training went from a Fiat to a well calculated Bugatti in terms of professionalism from a to z.
 
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It baffled me they didnt do any basic specific training such as intervalls 4 X 3mintue VO2 max sessions - after long endurance blocks to induce more fatigue beforehand. Or lactate and fatigue metabolite clearence training such as 3x15minutes at tempo for long blocks at 80% and 6 x 15 second sprints every 10min, again into endurance blocks, which has come to light he does alot now.

The gap in numbers from him to everyone else now is gigantic in all metrics.. Nvm everything else within various training methods which has been highlighted as day and night from before, to positioning and basic stuff. I believe his training went from a Fiat to a well calculated Bugatti in terms of professionalism from a to z.
There isn't any rider who will come close to him (bar Vingegaard) in the next 5 years. And if Vingegaard isn't able to follow him in the Tour, Pogacar has a free ride to become the all time record holder of GT wins. Vingegaard really needs to find an extra gear if he wants to beat Pogacar. If not cycling will be boring. MVP will not last more than 3 years so Pogacar will dominate every single classic (even PR in the future).
 
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I think we may to accept that Sola is something of a revolutionary as well. I mean obviously the bald fraud was missing elements top teams like Visma were utilizing. But UAE couldn't have been entirely out to lunch with Pogi.
 
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Pog when he catches a stage-leading Jorgensen 500m from the finish line on a MTF.
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We already have a route for UAE Tour. The same boring race. 4 flat stages, 2 unipuertos stages where jebel jais is a mountain sprint and jebel hafeet is where Pogacar will win 45 seconds with one leg. Finally, we have a pancake flat TT.
 
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We already have a route for UAE Tour. The same boring race. 4 flat stages, 2 unipuertos stages where jebel jais is a mountain sprint and jebel hafeet is where Pogacar will win 45 seconds with one leg. Finally, we have a pancake flat TT.
And Strade Bianche too. They added a new 9.3 km sector in the middle of the race. Another 80 km solo in coming
 
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And Strade Bianche too. They added a new 9.3 km sector in the middle of the race. Another 80 km solo in coming
That middle section of the race has around 50km of gravel roads in just 70km of distance ridden as well as containing some significant climbing.

The race will have been shredded even before Pogacar engages anything more than zone 2.

This is a far higher percentage of the route as off-road than Paris - Roubaix and should really see them arrive exhausted 5+ minutes behind Pog in ones and twos.