Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

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Yes, pretty much the same as this season.

Not do UAE and start with SB as his first race.

Maybe TA or PN if he wants to.

It all depends on if he goes back to cobbles or not, but it seems likely he will. So therefore his schedule should be pretty much the same.

It also opens up a lot of races for Almeida, Del Toro, Yates, McNulty, Vine and so on to target.

It is good for morale in the team.
More GTs and stage races. Classics, they (Pogacar's teammates) don't have any chance of leading the team.
 
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Does Pogacar/UAE have the best bike? How much of a bike downgrade would it take for him to lose a race to Remco? I recall Tom Boonen headline from long ago about how Pog would finish all races two minutes faster if he got a better bike. I was just thinking about this since I listened to the Rwanda recap on The Move, a podcast I'm generally unfamiliar with, and this Spencer Martin guy said it's just game over for everyone else once you have two guys (Pog and del Toro) in front on Colnago bikes taking turns, as if it's a big UAE superweapon
 
Does Pogacar/UAE have the best bike? How much of a bike downgrade would it take for him to lose a race to Remco? I recall Tom Boonen headline from long ago about how Pog would finish all races two minutes faster if he got a better bike. I was just thinking about this since I listened to the Rwanda recap on The Move, a podcast I'm generally unfamiliar with, and this Spencer Martin guy said it's just game over for everyone else once you have two guys (Pog and del Toro) in front on Colnago bikes taking turns, as if it's a big UAE superweapon
No, it's not a superweapon
 
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Next thing we'll be discussing is if it's possible to win multiple races in a single day.
Perhaps Tour De France and Tour of Magnificent Qinghai 2026?
Tour of the Alps and La Flèche Wallonne?
Chuck Norris could do it in the olden days, why not Pogi?
 
With his schedule it is also important to take into account what can he even do to prepare himself better to be better at them. For example i don't see how any race can truly prepare him for MSR, also really hard to prepare for next year WC. 3200m climbing at 270km long distance it will not be so hard for belgians to survive. And with Slovenian team it will be really hard to defend a Title. There is also question how much is him important to win Strade or GdL in he repeats this year GdL. He will win those again even without real preparation sometimes but kot every year. So i hope he goes something like MSR-E3, RVV, P-R, LBL, TdS, TdF, Vuelta, WC, EC (it is in Slo so he will be there) GdL.
 
With his schedule it is also important to take into account what can he even do to prepare himself better to be better at them. For example i don't see how any race can truly prepare him for MSR, also really hard to prepare for next year WC. 3200m climbing at 270km long distance it will not be so hard for belgians to survive. And with Slovenian team it will be really hard to defend a Title. There is also question how much is him important to win Strade or GdL in he repeats this year GdL. He will win those again even without real preparation sometimes but kot every year. So i hope he goes something like MSR-E3, RVV, P-R, LBL, TdS, TdF, Vuelta, WC, EC (it is in Slo so he will be there) GdL.
I think Usrka's schedule is very important to understand what Pogacar will race next year.
But E3 is not a good idea. He just needs to race SB and spring monuments to be fresher for the second part of the season.
 
With his schedule it is also important to take into account what can he even do to prepare himself better to be better at them. For example i don't see how any race can truly prepare him for MSR, also really hard to prepare for next year WC. 3200m climbing at 270km long distance it will not be so hard for belgians to survive. And with Slovenian team it will be really hard to defend a Title. There is also question how much is him important to win Strade or GdL in he repeats this year GdL. He will win those again even without real preparation sometimes but kot every year. So i hope he goes something like MSR-E3, RVV, P-R, LBL, TdS, TdF, Vuelta, WC, EC (it is in Slo so he will be there) GdL.
So it's not the same circuit as the Montreal GP. Montreal GP doesn't have more than 4,000?
 
I think Usrka's schedule is very important to understand what Pogacar will race next year.
But E3 is not a good idea. He just needs to race SB and spring monuments to be fresher for the second part of the season.
Without SB, he can peak 2 weeks later. E3 is because he normally does preparation races, but this year he didn't race nothing before RVV and still won, so you could be right.