Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[rafa92]

He hasn't beaten Riis's record. How long would Riis have been riding a modern bike?

to be honest looking at riis in hautacam he looked much more comfortable on his bike

 

[Valv.Piti]

Also UAE dominating Visma in the mountains even without Almeida..People never learn, stuck to the past, I can never wrap my head around people telling themselves things they wanne believe opposed to what we see and numbers.

Imagine what Almeida would do here, he actually woulda have a good chance to beat Vingegaard like he has previous times this year with signs. Not saying he would just its a possibility, he beat him in the TT even as well so.

Based on everything we have seen from Joao, he would beat Jonas today IMO

 

[Rou]

Don't ever doubt this guy.
He is the GOAT for a reason.

 

[Jack_89]

Why you are all obsessed with that freaking record? Cheers him for a great performance. He has the Tour in the hands. You are a strange kind of fans, guys 🤔😑😑

 

[James M]

Chapeau, Pog. More history, love to see it. No disrespect to Jonas either, even though I've always said that this year I suspected he's on a downward trend relative to others. That doesn't mean I don't respect him the guy is always fighting. There's nothing he can do against this; it's just the reality. One thing doesn't mean the other.

Hopefully no one rides into Pogacar again or anyone else of the big guys.

 

[Monsi]

Some of you guys need to have more belief. I had some worries before the day that the crash may really affect him but I was always optimistic that he'll do really well today.

Chapeau to Pog and to his teammates. That was an amazing performance. What an amazing job by Wellens and Narvaez. Now to more victories.

 

[snipeheem]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945873567599427861

View: https://x.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1945873567599427861

 

[jmdirt]

WOW! Just WOW!
Congrats TP!

 

[rafa92]

Why you are all obsessed with that freaking record? Cheers him for a great performance. He has the Tour in the hands. You are a strange kind of fans, guys 🤔😑😑

I'm just saying he was not on his Pdb level, that's it. Btw vingegaard was one minute slower than he was in 2022, that's a lot, to me vingegaard's level today was the biggest surprise

 

[Kedjan]

That was brutal. A total destruction of the competition. Acutally, he doesn't have any real competition, he is just too good.

 

[Peyroteo94]

This gap and he crashed

 

[Offline]

Jhonatan Narváez what a signning!

 

[yaf2]

And u are telling me vingegaard is gonna participate in vuelta?🤣 what was we saying the whole year🤣🤣🤣

 

[Rou]

Narvaez is an amazing rider.
I doubted him months ago but this guy is a machine.

 

[rafa92]

This gap and he crashed

every time I am worried he just makes me look like an idiot the next day, happy to be wrong, but what do you think of vingegaard? he was 1 minute slower than in 2022 (when the stage was also very hard with pog attacks on the penultimate climbs), and he was basically at the same level as lipowitz. I have the impression he focused a bit too much on putting mass to help his max power (he said he gained 1 kg= vs last year) but this has affected his climbing

 

[yaf2]

I'm just saying he was not on his Pdb level, that's it. Btw vingegaard was one minute slower than he was in 2022, that's a lot, to me vingegaard's level today was the biggest surprise

Its not b/c both pog & jonas were worse than 2024 but the pacing of hautacam made it hard to beat the record. Narvaez put a nuclear power at 11 km to go even threatened to drop vingegaard probably did more than 600 watts there and both pog & jonas rode the fastest times on the first part of the climb but both faded into the 2nd part of the climb

 

[fenns]

The Jorgenson weapon neutralised already 1st day in the mountains. All Jumbo Visma's weapons gone - Jonas is going to have to do it alone.

 

[KZD]

Beautiful performance today, Pogačar is just miles ahead of the competition including Vingegaard.

Simply the GOAT.

 

[Peyroteo94]

In PdB he had the perfect leadout. Not here.

 

[rafa92]

Its not b/c both pog & jonas were worse than 2024 but the pacing of hautacam made it hard to beat the record. Narvaez put a nuclear power at 11 km to go even threatened to drop vingegaard probably did more than 600 watts there and both pog & jonas rode the fastest times on the first part of the climb but both faded into the 2nd part of the climb

I want to see the watts, Vingegaard was definitively worse than in 2024 Pdb, no doubt about that, pog also but by a smaller margin. I know the pacing on pdb was perfect, but to keep the wheels when the pace is high you still have to push the watts!!

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar did around 6.6 W/Kg. Nothing crazy

 

[solo80k]

Pogacar did around 6.6 W/Kg. Nothing crazy

Heat factor+ yesterday's fall? I also think he decided to slow down in the second half of the climb since Jonas wasn't able to match him in any way.

 

[BubbaChuck]

people will say look at the time gaps,meh.great but not best performance of pogacar.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Heat factor+ yesterday's fall? I also think he decided to slow down in the second half of the climb since Jonas wasn't able to match him in any way.

Nah, he went full gas without slowing down.

 

[Valv.Piti]

This gap and he crashed

3 min without it