Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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Cycling111

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Yes, he was the best-placed. He would have three Liège.
But the other two were also unfortunate. A death and an injury.

I've put it in the race thread.

Pogacar's intention is to compete FW in the sprint. For the first time, the team is taking the responsibility of winning off his shoulders.
They're talking about FW as a training for Liège.
If he wins, it will be in the sprint, but it seems they don't want him to push for the win if there's a distant attack from other runners.

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Pogi won Strade Bianche, Catalunya, LBL, Giro, Tour, Montréal, WC RR, Emilia, Lombardia and a bunch of stages. And they gave Laureus to somebody else. What are they, morons? No wonder so many tennis players got it.
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These awards are always very questionable and the fact that Pogačar is from a small country also doesn't help him. I am sure that he won't lose sleep over it though.
 
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Lorzenz08 said:
So far at this point, Pogi has a better season than last year.

In 2024 at this point he had :
- 1st SB
- 3rd MSR
- 1st Volta Catalunya

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This year he has :
- 1st UAE Tour
- 1st SB
- 3rd MSR
- 1st Flanders
- 2nd PR
- 2nd AGR

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Not a surprise given that last season his main targets didn't even start at this point.

And still last year this time he had 6 wins, compared to 5 this year.
 
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YavorD said:
Not a surprise given that last season his main targets didn't even start at this point.

And still last year this time he had 6 wins, compared to 5 this year.
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YavorD said:
Not a surprise given that last season his main targets didn't even start at this point.

And still last year this time he had 6 wins, compared to 5 this year.
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Thats true also by end of next month he will also have a worse season no matter what since last year he had won the Giro.

But I just thought it was interesting to know
 
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It's a more complex calendar.

But in San Remo, the same result.
Flanders won it again.

He didn't win the PR; it's incomparable to Volta a Catalunya. This year, he wuld´ve won any of the one-week race at this time.

And obviously, he won't be able to win as much as he did in the Giro unless he does the Vuelta.
I've seen comments on x about pure statistics. Obviously, he'll arrive at the Tour with less victories. Between Catalunya and the Giro he won 10 stages and two GC

But the feeling isn't worse.

Some in X are getting excited about a supposed crisis because he has fewer overall victories.
Based on what we've seen so far, it's hard to say he's worse off than a year ago. It's a completely different schedule. We won't see his level in mountain until the Dauphiné.
But even last year at the Giro, they underestimated his climbing because of rivals. And at the Tour, on Lioran's day, they said he wouldn't win the Tour.
Until the middle of the Tour, some still underestimated his level; this year, without seeing him climbing...
 
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They're not taking into account that Pogacar hasn't focused on altitude this year, unlike last year for the Giro.

I think too many conclusions are being drawn for the Tour because this year he has less wins in races that haven't had mountain stages.

Remco has done altitude. Although Pogacar isn't a rider who do a lot altitude for the Classics, the Ardennes are a Classics where most of his opponents have done altitude.

For the Tour, he'll do altitude. That's where his climbing ability will be seen.
At this point, it seems premature to say that he's worse than last year, when his best form was reached around this time because he was heading to the Giro. However, this year his worst shape of the spring is in the Ardennes because he reached his peak form for Flanders and Roubaix.

No conclusions can be drawn for TDF.
We've only seen him climb Jebel Jafet. It's not a reliable demonstration because his spring training was for the cobbles classics.
 
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Cycling111 said:
They're not taking into account that Pogacar hasn't focused on altitude this year, unlike last year for the Giro.

I think too many conclusions are being drawn for the Tour because this year he has less wins in races that haven't had mountain stages.

Remco has done altitude. Although Pogacar isn't a rider who do a lot altitude for the Classics, the Ardennes are a Classics where most of his opponents have done altitude.

For the Tour, he'll do altitude. That's where his climbing ability will be seen.
At this point, it seems premature to say that he's worse than last year, when his best form was reached around this time because he was heading to the Giro. However, this year his worst shape of the spring is in the Ardennes because he reached his peak form for Flanders and Roubaix.

No conclusions can be drawn for TDF.
We've only seen him climb Jebel Jafet. It's not a reliable demonstration because his spring training was for the cobbles classics.
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Spring form has been pretty consistent between 2023-2025 if you ask me.
 
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Cycling111 said:
They're not taking into account that Pogacar hasn't focused on altitude this year, unlike last year for the Giro.

I think too many conclusions are being drawn for the Tour because this year he has less wins in races that haven't had mountain stages.

Remco has done altitude. Although Pogacar isn't a rider who do a lot altitude for the Classics, the Ardennes are a Classics where most of his opponents have done altitude.

For the Tour, he'll do altitude. That's where his climbing ability will be seen.
At this point, it seems premature to say that he's worse than last year, when his best form was reached around this time because he was heading to the Giro. However, this year his worst shape of the spring is in the Ardennes because he reached his peak form for Flanders and Roubaix.

No conclusions can be drawn for TDF.
We've only seen him climb Jebel Jafet. It's not a reliable demonstration because his spring training was for the cobbles classics.
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This year he been going for a long time. He is at the very end of a difficult schedule and he has just raced PR for the first time.

Both factors to consider, that he might not really be his best form atm... but he is still Pog.
 
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In Catalunya, he won four stages and GC
In PR, he didn't win anything but finished second in his debut whit great sesations.

If this were a statistical matter, then Pogacar's performance in Catalunya 2024 would be better than his performance in PR 2024, but it has no correlation.
Performance isn't measured by a victory without considering the context.
This year, Pogacar would surely have won Itzulia with four stages, but he went to PR and didn't win.

Pogacar's physical performance in Roubaix and Catalunya was probably similar.
 
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Cycling111 said:
In Catalunya, he won four stages and GC
In PR, he didn't win anything but finished second in his debut whit great sesations.

If this were a statistical matter, then Pogacar's performance in Catalunya 2024 would be better than his performance in PR 2024, but it has no correlation.
Performance isn't measured by a victory without considering the context.
This year, Pogacar would surely have won Itzulia with four stages, but he went to PR and didn't win.

Pogacar's physical performance in Roubaix and Catalunya was probably similar.
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I think you also have to think about his time time preparing for Ronde and PR.

Very different from the climbing he did and just focused on last season.

I think PR is also way harder on the body and it is a long race. I think he would say it was way harder than Cataluyna on how it affected him.

Catalunya was just race to build form anyway for him. Race days before Giro.

In PR, for example, he probably had to dig deeper than he has done and the cobbles there are brutal. The distance and character of it. It comes after a long block of racing. It is no surprise he might struggle here and there in the next few races, but it could also be that he will still be very good. Just missing that little bit that is the difference between winning or "just" finishing on the podium. We will see.
 
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BubbaChuck said:
''We all read declerations of Matxin,that you dont have to win today... He can talk,what he wants,but im always going for the win.'' lmao,he looks fresh.
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Cycling111 said:
They're not taking into account that Pogacar hasn't focused on altitude this year, unlike last year for the Giro.

I think too many conclusions are being drawn for the Tour because this year he has less wins in races that haven't had mountain stages.

Remco has done altitude. Although Pogacar isn't a rider who do a lot altitude for the Classics, the Ardennes are a Classics where most of his opponents have done altitude.

For the Tour, he'll do altitude. That's where his climbing ability will be seen.
At this point, it seems premature to say that he's worse than last year, when his best form was reached around this time because he was heading to the Giro. However, this year his worst shape of the spring is in the Ardennes because he reached his peak form for Flanders and Roubaix.

No conclusions can be drawn for TDF.
We've only seen him climb Jebel Jafet. It's not a reliable demonstration because his spring training was for the cobbles classics.
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He still has 2 altitude training camps before the Tour.
 
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Rou said:
A question for Pog's fans.
Do you remember the race or moment when you became a supporter?
For me it was the stage in Andorra in the 2019 Vuelta when he dropped Soler and Quintana.
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I have a short memory, but maybe VaE. I just like the way that he races.

I like anyone who TAKES the race. As I've stated I'm not as much a fan of one or two guys, I'm a fan of hard racing.
 
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