Sure, there's some salt flowing from that direction after the race. There was also about 50x the salt flowing from the other direction during the race just because Pogacar was in it. It's that hypocrisy and willful disengagement of one's brain I have a problem with. I personally only wanted to see a race with no punctures/other misfortune for any major players, and from what I saw, in that unlikely scenario there was no chance for Pogacar to win, so it's a fair result.
Wasn’t that interesting? I know it’s not the correct set up, but he looked utterly different on that neutral bike. Legs looked like they actually had to push the pedals for a change, some effort was required. I’m telling you, something is off.
Yeah, something was off, like Tadej not ridding a suitable bike for him at all?
That's another thing that hampered him. Those bikes are really awful and he was riding them for like 5 minutes. He went from Pogacar to Lenny Martinez on the flat
Who would have thought a rider has issues on a bike not set up for them that they’ve rarely if ever rode.
Mechanical dependency. It’s hilarious how different he looks when the geometry isn’t millimetre perfect for him.
Look at Pogacar side by side with Wout on the winners platform. Wout is huge, with the thighs of oaks, a true superman, the perfect cycling specimen. Pogacar by contrast looks like a tiny elf, a climber’s frame, skinny little legs. A physical weakling who should stick to going up mountains.Now we are at he should never be able to compete.
I agree. And I’ll say that even if he was merely juiced to the gills he couldn’t do it. Setting aside his body type and its obvious unsuitability for riding classics, the sheer wear and tear on the body, the natural fatigue and physical stress (and mental) that comes from riding a complete classics season at that quite frankly insane level (never mind as a domestique), should mean he would be in rather less than peak condition heading into the Tour. Except what usually happens is he comes in like peak Lance, fresh as a daisy and mainlining EPO laced blood bags delivered fresh from the lab of Dr Ferrari. He goes on to make mincemeat of a world class peloton that has prepared for and targeted that one race, and you come to one conclusion. Something else is going on.Forget about Foliforov, Riccò, Landis, or Vino. This guy is by far and away the least credible rider we've ever seen. Look at this list of results from 2026 and tell me with a straight face that it's even remotely believable that the same rider has won the Tour four times.
This is a Fabian Cancellara result list. Not a Grand Tour winner result list. You can go ahead and ask Nibali or Wiggins how well you can combine these races with Grand Tours.
He did, it was shown at least 2 times, one of those after he made the first comeback before arenberg.
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