why not note that when you linked to what you believed to be false claimsYes, according Politt, his agent is wrong
"I have really bad knee pain": The hidden scare that nearly derailed Tadej Pogacar’s Tour as told by Nils Politt
The 2025 Tour de France was not an easy edition for Tadej Pogacar, even if his four stage wins might say otherwise. The Slovenian prodigy suffered a knee injury that kept hindering him and threatened...cyclinguptodate.com
I didn't know. In fact I always thought his knee injury was caused by his crash in stage 11.
Very good team. They need to put a hard pace before Cipressa. Maybe reduce the peloton to 80 riders before Cipressa.
There are more teams interested in putting a hard tempo if some sprinters are gone in Berta.
Last year, they failed completely and still were able to destroy the peloton.
last year they had wellens and more importantly narvaez, we are underestimating the importance of what narvaez did last year, he's literally perfect for that effort, he has that explosivity that can create gaps even on 4-5% gradients even before pogacar attacks. Nobody on this roster can do that, the only one who might do a similar thing is del toro, but imo not as well as narvaez
It’s unbelievable to think who is selecting this roster. He has to be new to cycling. Idk what grobschartner & mcnulty are doing here. The race needs explosive type of rider who can make a 2-3 minute lead out not a diesel type of rider. Cosnefroy & Morgado are the perfect fit but the most efficient way imo is to have oliviera instead of either one to position the team for cipressa but in any case the team selection today is destined to fail
Maybe they are planning to put up the pace from Capo Berta with the diesels.
weve talked about the ventoux sprint numerous times last year in this thread , also when wellens talked about it
And on Saturday, they can't do a worse job before Cipressa than 2025 MSR. I still think they will fail but it's not their fault Narvaez and Wellens had severe injuries.
UAE only has to pull hard a bit more than half of the flat between Berta and Cipressa because teams will start fighting for position and entrance into the climb and increase the pace then anyway
Cipressa has 4% gradients. It's very shallow for Pogacar to drop MVP (specially when MSR is so flat before Cipressa).
I think they will go all out with Felix on Berta, McNulty takes over and does the first part of flat, Vermeersch leadout into Cipressa and forst few hundred meters then Christen and Del Toro and nuclear attack. Will it be enough, we don't know
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