Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[CyclistAbi]

Pogi should have waited for del Toro, he shouldn't indulge in this little pleasures. Scrap that.

Chapeau!

 

[Rasto]

on sante marie imo he beat the kom by a lot, but after that he was not super impressive, actually looking at his body language he was more on the limit than other times he went solo

there was a motor bike in front of a G2 a lot thats why the t ime is like that

 

[Rasto]

pogacar averages 50 watts more than seixsas atleast what velon post

 

[James M]

So it begins. Season underway. Hes in the mid of the greatest run ever btw. Last two seasons are back to back 1-2 in history. Impeccable

 

[jotafap]

don't think so, he was actually pushing a lot

For what reason should he be pushing a lot when the race is totally decided? It's pretty obvious the gap could be twice as big, like it was at some point.

 

[canina82]

He loves to create these 1' gaps and then cruise. He does this all the time.

 

[jmdirt]

TP!

 

[Shortcut]

Ok, first win, looked pretty relaxed 50km till finish. He "joked" after descent where he fall last year. I think he really wanted to win but he knows how to build his peak. He looked much stronger at Rwanda last year than in Quebec+Montreal. He needs to be in perfect form at MSR+RVV and P-R so i would be suprise if that is his final form. He looks better than last year and without UAE Tour in his legs and without crash in SB he should be ready. He looked also a little bit heavier but if he wants to win next three races that is reasonable.

 

[rafa92]

just looked at the watts of pogacar in the last 80km, according to velon he did 380 watts, that's 40 more than in the last 2 years, it's a huge difference. He also destroyed the KOM on sante marie. In part the higher watts might be due to an higher weight but still his performance was huge, and still his gaps were not huge (to pidcock, vermersch...), they were lower than last years. Imo something weird happened in that group 2, I mean with those watts from pogacar they should have lost 3-4 minutes. Also the gap to seixas is 1 minute but in reality the difference in watts is still big (330 for seixas in the last 80 KM)

 

[yaf2]

i'm a bit disappointed by the gaps, I mean seixas is crazy strong, but to me it seems strange pog only gained 2:14 on pidcock , last year he gained 1:24 just in 18 km after a bad crash and having to gain back 30 seconds. Today it was pidcock who had a mechanical (actually 2) and the gap was not much higher. Also his haps to vermersch, christen and gregoire are all pretty low

I think pog is on a different level this year especially climbing wise. I don’t think the final gap tells the whole story. Let’s put it into perspective, on the middle/climbing part of santa maria he attacked for 3 minutes where seixas tried to follow and he put 10-15 sec on seixas, 25-30 secs on Deltoro and 35- 40 secs on jorgenson on a 3 minute climb which if you copy it to liege on la redoute which is a 4 minute climb he never had such a gap at the top & that was against Healy and pidcock. I think he rode within himself the whole time after Santa maria & once he knew he had 1:30 gap he doesn’t need to extend it more especially considering he has to do some block of training in the next week for San Remo. Regarding seixas I just have no words👏 the boy is special!