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Red Rick

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Krzysztof_O said:
he didn't look too good after FW either
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Peyroteo94

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scribers said:
You’ve been wanting pogi at the vuelta last year, this year, and next year. I can’t reread your response to Lequack for you.
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Yes I wanted but I can't understand your point...
Just because I wanted, he should be there. Is this your point?
 
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Cycling111 said:
I think he's thinner now.

In the podcast he did last year, he said he weighed more at the 2024 Classics than he at the start of the Tour . And now he's as thin as he was at the Tour.
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I did think my perception might be a bit warped. I felt like he was thinner at Strade 2024 than he had been in 2023, so I just really noticed it. It seems to work fairly well for him, but I guess we'll see on Sunday.
 
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HashRouge said:
I did think my perception might be a bit warped. I felt like he was thinner at Strade 2024 than he had been in 2023, so I just really noticed it. It seems to work fairly well for him, but I guess we'll see on Sunday.
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In Flanders, he always weighs more than in the Tour, but now I see him as thin as in the Tour. To pass the cobbles, it's better to have a little more weight.
 
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Cycling111 said:
In Flanders, he always weighs more than in the Tour, but now I see him as thin as in the Tour. To pass the cobbles, it's better to have a little more weight.
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nah, remember that this race will have 5500 meters of elevation, flanders is around 2000 meters. It's better to be very low weight with so much elevation
 
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rafa92 said:
nah, remember that this race will have 5500 meters of elevation, flanders is around 2000 meters. It's better to be very low weight with so much elevation
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But except for Mont Kigali, they're short climbs. The weight of Flanders would be fine, isn't the weight of Pedersen or VDP.
 
yaf2

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Cycling111 said:
But except for Mont Kigali, they're short climbs. The weight of Flanders would be fine, isn't the weight of Pedersen or VDP.
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His weight is more or less the same as all year around 65. Dont worry he has a world class coach who knows what he is doing with his weight management. I think the deception is with the camera angle + if he wears a full skin suit or not(wearing it might make him look like big)
 
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Cycling111 said:
But except for Mont Kigali, they're short climbs. The weight of Flanders would be fine, isn't the weight of Pedersen or VDP.
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Indeed. Unless Slovenia tries to make it as hard as possible in the first 150km's and Pogacar launches on Mount Kigali
 
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Cycling111 said:
But except for Mont Kigali, they're short climbs. The weight of Flanders would be fine, isn't the weight of Pedersen or VDP.
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As mentioned above I think Pog will be close to his Tour weight. But even so, as you say a little extra weight isn't such a penalty on short climbs. But the issue would be cumulative fatigue.

On the Kigali course you have to repeat pulling that extra kilo or two up each of those climbs 9 times before the finishing circuit. It all adds to fatigue late in the race. 5,475 metres of elevation over 267 km is indeed brutal.
 
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yaf2 said:
His weight is more or less the same as all year around 65. Dont worry he has a world class coach who knows what he is doing with his weight management. I think the deception is with the camera angle + if he wears a full skin suit or not(wearing it might make him look like big)
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He also had a coach for the time trial, and it turned out worse than expected.

Some believe the travel to Canada and not doing the altitude camp were a mistake before ITT.

I don't know what his coach would advise regarding the time trial and Canada.
 
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As mentioned above I think Pog will be close to his Tour weight. But even so, as you say a little extra weight isn't such a penalty on short climbs. But the issue would be cumulative fatigue.

On the Kigali course you have to repeat pulling that extra kilo or two up each of those climbs 9 times before the finishing circuit. It all adds to fatigue late in the race. 5,475 metres of elevation over 267 km is indeed brutal.
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Remco, on the other hand, seems more robust than at the Tour.
 
Peyroteo94

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yaf2 said:
His weight is more or less the same as all year around 65. Dont worry he has a world class coach who knows what he is doing with his weight management. I think the deception is with the camera angle + if he wears a full skin suit or not(wearing it might make him look like big)
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Nah, he was heavier for PR this year. I'm pretty sure he was at least 66 kg.
 
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