Downs in 2025 (In my opinion)What downs he had in 2025?
Pogacar, for better or worse, is a man without masks. He doesn't tend to deceive with his performance.Pog trying to mask his form for the RR.
Downs in 2025 (In my opinion)
Amstel Gold Race
TDF Stages to Superbagneres and La Plagne
GP Quebec
World's TT
Very good pointThis performance will help him win the RR. Now Remco believe he can beat him so he will have Belgium control and then race for Pogacar in my mind.. If Pogacar had won with 1 min today Ii would be everyone against Slovenia. And no way Slovenia could handle that.
What downs he had in 2025?
Compare him to 2024 where is his ONLY down that I remember is Stage 11 of the TDF to Lioran.Some Tour stages in the last week were subper indeed but he had a monster advantage anyway.
AGR was straight after Flandres-Roubaix double so I wouldn't count it.
World's TT, surely a down.
GP Quebec, not sure, maybe just training ride.
2024Downs in 2025 (In my opinion)
Amstel Gold Race
TDF Stages to Superbagneres and La Plagne
GP Quebec
World's TT
We will see but it will be hard either way I think. Especially because of the team aspects.This performance will help him win the RR. Now Remco believe he can beat him so he will have Belgium control and then race for Pogacar in my mind.. If Pogacar had won with 1 min today Ii would be everyone against Slovenia. And no way Slovenia could handle that.
Some of you keep talking about the number of days of racing.Next year he should do only 30 race days before World's so he is not tired.
Well saidHe is the goat of cycling, nothing to chase anymore
Disagree about two of these.2024
Giro - stage 1
Tour - stage 11
GP Quebec
In 2025, he is racing against harder competition
We were talking about downs. If his level in the Tour is a down, what can we say about all other riders?I sair relative and I meant performance considering expectations.
UAE wasn't great. AGR, Dauphiné TT, the Tour after his 4th stage win, everyone thought he would win at least one more stage..
And his overall level during the Tour. He wasn't as good as last year and I predicted that before the Tour and we were arguing about that.
Pog in the interview admitting that it's not good for the TT that he went to Canada.
He sounds frustrated and has a disappointed look.
Most likely he was just hoping to get a podium with less than optimal preperation. There's no way he thought he'd win this.Pog started feeling bigger than the sport and started riding ridiculously in the TdF with not wanting to win stages or I do not even know what he was thinking there. It is nice to see him with his head down and humiliated. Maybe he should be winning everything he can while he can. Not riding the Vuelta last year was also ridiculous (this year too, but he already had his nose high by that point).
I also think people underestimate the difference between a one day TT, and a TT as part of a grand tour. The accumulated fatigue evens the gap a bit between the TT specialists and the grand tour specialists.I wonder how many times he gets on his TT bike when he is not preparing the Tour.
It's night and day.
In fact he mentioned sickness during canadian races.Understandable. Especially after getting nothing after gifting away the W in Canada. He also mentioned sickness in the build-up to canadian races. Good thing pogi never gives excuses when he fails to win.
(I still believe he'll smoke everyone during the RR, unless Del Toro is allowed some freedom)
Er, Red Rick, are you feeling okay?Most likely he was just hoping to get a podium with less than optimal preperation. There's no way he thought he'd win this.
If anything this duel was extremely overhyped before the race, and that's not even Pogacar's fault.