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Bit much to just assume he'll win MSR and Roubaix. He's ridden MSR five times, it won't be easy for him to win it.
I suppose he's referring to the stage races. If he wins the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Suisse, he'd only have the Itzulia and the Vuelta left.
Ciro is definitely the most reliable. Nobody had mentioned Romandie.
Beppe Conti, on the other hand 😅
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Beppe Conti, on the other hand 😅
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This Satanist is and will always be synonymous with the downfall of cycling, him never doing Suisse when it was a proper race but now doing it that it's a Mickey mouse 5-day Richard plugge race , is proof of that. One-cycling tiktock gianetti sheikh billions industry plant.
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Great schedule, focused on the monuments, giving Pogačar the chance of adding two important stage races to his palmares and keeping him fresh before the Tour.
As a spectator, I would have liked him to ride E3 to watch another battle with Van der Poel but I understand why he doesn't.
Also, if everything goes according to plan, Pogačar should finish the Tour with 37 race days. It definitely leaves the door open for the Vuelta.
As a spectator, I would have liked him to ride E3 to watch another battle with Van der Poel but I understand why he doesn't.
Also, if everything goes according to plan, Pogačar should finish the Tour with 37 race days. It definitely leaves the door open for the Vuelta.
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Looks like the stars are aligning so finally Pog will do the Vuelta to complete the career Grand Tour set. As mentioned up-thread, despite claims he was dead after the Tour, if not for team politics he looked capable of winning the Vuelta in 2024 and doing the unthinkable - winning three GTs in a single season.
Pogacar's main obstacle to winning the Vuelta might be Jonas Vingegaard - another mouth watering showdown even if since 2024 that rivalry now looks lopsided? But I think we can still never discount Vingo.
Pogacar's main obstacle to winning the Vuelta might be Jonas Vingegaard - another mouth watering showdown even if since 2024 that rivalry now looks lopsided? But I think we can still never discount Vingo.
Jonas will complete his GT set winning the Giro. No way he races 3 GT
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And in recent times Alberto Contador, Vincenzo Nibali and Chris Froome also completed career GT sets. But the lack of a Vuelta victory is now a glaring omission on Pogacar's palmares.
If he feels alright after the Tour, he will race the Vuelta with Roglic as main rival.
I don't think he'll go to the Vuelta. He's been doing the Canadian classics for two years, and he won't do them when the World Championships are in Canada?
Based on his decision to ride Suisse I wouldn’t be surprised if he rides the Vuelta.
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Wait what, why is Suisse suddenly a 5 day race??? 7 I would've understood but from 9 down to 5?
It won't be easy to win either. The same guy is his #1 Kryptonite for those races.
Logistical challenges? Any reason given for the drop or was it at the insistence of the marque' players?
Race is not owned from any "big players". Also having street closed in switzerland for cycling is not cheap and they don't need any more marketing for their country (+there is also Tour of Romandie).
It's hard to really comprehend how far ahead of every other team UAE really are, even in media. I love Tadej for many reasons, today was another. Confidence in laying out plans. Isaac Del Toro did a stand alone media day and it was amazing. Del Toro laying out team goals, his individual trajectory and his role in defending Tadej Pogacar at the TDF. Del Toro was able to articulate in multiple languages, what he is planning to do, why, with who. His comments today and previously about what he gets from riding with Pogacar are profound. He has verbalized and imagined what riding, supporting Pogacar can mean to himself, his teammate..defending TDF champion. The relationship between the two men is monumental. During World Championships, Pogacar telling Del Toro to ride outside himself, try something, it ultimately failed as far as a medal, but the trust and respect between the two has to be infectious on the team. UAE has rider controversy put to sleep before it starts. Great riders like Almeida already able to focus because of early declared goals. Absolutely brilliant public relations and an example of done right management... Meanwhile.. Trek, NSN, Ineos, , too many others going with.. Wait and see schedules.. Some teams so soggy and wishywashy that they don't know the team. Recent social media has Matteo Jorgenson labeled as a domestique. Trek has Juan Ayuso sitting on the back of someone else's bike, saying ( thinking) someone else is the leader, someone else's objectives are important. Super talent, Oscar Onley with no team, Gee can't work. Remco making media about thinking like number one.. UAE is already winning media without racing their bikes.. other teams starting from behind...
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I wouldn't say weak, but short.
42 days, even considering the intensity is short.
I think this very short sprint schedule hints that he considers the Vuelta very seriously, obviously not 100% but I feel that it's much more likely to do the Vuelta in 2026 than it was in 2025.
Swiss government is very intelligent about tourism exposure. No matter the length of the race, it's guaranteed that the tourism component of showing the country, the people, the culture in a positive light, showcasing the gorgeous country will equal any coverage done for the bike race.
Many of these races should include links to vacation packages, how to book a wedding, places to retire. If they shut down villages or streets, regardless of hassle or cost, they are thinking about what they are doing.
As not to be overly positive about Switzerland! Australia knocks it out, with helicopter shots of a country, beaches, landscapes, people that take your breath away.. They start in January or February.
After watching Tadej’s entire interview, which gives a completely different feeling than just reading an article, I’m even more convinced that he’s a pure cycling fanatic and that his schedule will always be unpredictable. This forum focuses only on how his schedule will affect the TdF, even though he’s still expected to do everything else as well. In the interview he directly says that he would rather win Roubaix than the Tour and hints that if the two races were held at the same time(!), he would probably go to the Tour de France because the team would decide that (BUT NOT HIM ).
This year’s schedule is brilliant from several perspectives, especially because it can be adjusted very easily. In my opinion, this will be the first year he goes all-in on Milan–San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, and Paris–Roubaix. He’ll take Liège–Bastogne–Liège and Romandie seriously, but it won’t be the end of the world if he doesn’t win. I’m convinced that if Jonas goes to the Giro, Pogačar will cancel either Romandie or Switzerland. I think he wants to go to the Vuelta but not race against Jonas, because that takes too much energy out of him.
People here comment a lot that the Vuelta would exhaust him for the WC, but they don’t understand that if his only real competition is the current Roglič (whom I otherwise respect immensely) and Mas, with Almeida covering his back behind them, that’s not the same as racing against Jonas.
This year’s schedule is brilliant from several perspectives, especially because it can be adjusted very easily. In my opinion, this will be the first year he goes all-in on Milan–San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, and Paris–Roubaix. He’ll take Liège–Bastogne–Liège and Romandie seriously, but it won’t be the end of the world if he doesn’t win. I’m convinced that if Jonas goes to the Giro, Pogačar will cancel either Romandie or Switzerland. I think he wants to go to the Vuelta but not race against Jonas, because that takes too much energy out of him.
People here comment a lot that the Vuelta would exhaust him for the WC, but they don’t understand that if his only real competition is the current Roglič (whom I otherwise respect immensely) and Mas, with Almeida covering his back behind them, that’s not the same as racing against Jonas.
He is the only cyclist who will race all 5 Monuments to win them.
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