he's back at home in Italy. training every day, doing Instagram live for training tips for his followers. he keeps making gelato
he's back at home in Italy. training every day, doing Instagram live for training tips for his followers. he keeps making gelato
- Jan 8, 2020
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There are tweaking things and TWEAKING things. I mean, you're gonna tell me (whoever this may be) that we improved nutrition, got the race feeding right, didn't crash, worked more on TTing, lost 2 kili and voila', now we have reached "perfection", insofar as this has any meaning until next year. Remember it was the best version of Pogacar, but also the best numbers Vingegaard put up too. Did the crash cause all of the time Vingegaard lost by this year? It was like Tadej had been messing with everyone until this year and then turned on the afterburners and left them all in the dust. Just when they thought they had a chance, he burried them.
Everyone thinks he’s just applauding Pogacar though. Like how the entire peloton drools over how amazing he is whenever asked in interviews.
- Feb 20, 2012
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The large trend is just dope number go up up and up and that's why Vingegaard does his career best numbers on Plateau de Beille. At the same time I still think he would have done better in the Tour without his Itzulia crash because crashes like that aren't good for your performance.
It should give an idea how much is slight tweaks and how much is just upping the dose.
- Jul 7, 2013
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Matteo just got too close to the sun. This expression is becoming more and more popular in the peleton.
- Apr 13, 2021
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With everything that happened this year, it's very easy to forget what Visma did in 2023. What they achieved with vingegard and kuss was absurd, they were so much stronger than the top GC riders in the world that they could let their domestique win a grand tour.
The time trial to combloux was at the time the most obviously rocket fueled performance I had ever seen. They took the p*ss out of Pogacar in that tour, and they took the p*ss out of us fans the whole year.
Gianetti, maxtin, Pogacar probably realized that they could go even further with their programe, even more ridiculous than Visma in 2023, and as long as Pogacar is attacking , people will eat it up and not question.
Visma with Roglic/Vingegard and UAE with Pogacar have been playing the same game against each other since the return to racing in 2020, with a nice little preview at the 2019 vuelta. It snowballs each year.
I hope soon that the elastic snaps.
The time trial to combloux was at the time the most obviously rocket fueled performance I had ever seen. They took the p*ss out of Pogacar in that tour, and they took the p*ss out of us fans the whole year.
Gianetti, maxtin, Pogacar probably realized that they could go even further with their programe, even more ridiculous than Visma in 2023, and as long as Pogacar is attacking , people will eat it up and not question.
Visma with Roglic/Vingegard and UAE with Pogacar have been playing the same game against each other since the return to racing in 2020, with a nice little preview at the 2019 vuelta. It snowballs each year.
I hope soon that the elastic snaps.
You can absolutely not know it. You're here only promoting the UAE:s pr narrative of somesort of super metabolism that apperead after he joined the team. And it even got so much better all the sudden this year. If you take 10k pro athletes, there's not going to be one invidual with hugely superior lactate clearance or what ever marginal ganes kind of narrative they're trying to sell, to give us a believable explanation.
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The numbers of racing in the UK has more to do with the cost of it. Road racing has been dying for a while due to cost of policing it and trying to get volunteers for it. We as a club have tried for a while and it's a pain. Even TT's are slowly dying. The levies etc are just mad.
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I was a Pogi fan. He has a personality and seemed chilled and entertaining. The greed this season, nah, too much kid. The mad attacks etc. What he did in the Giro on taking stages he didn't need to, nah leave some for the others.
I don't think he will ever be caught as it would be too much for the sport. But I wont be watching next weekend. Just give him it now.
I don't think he will ever be caught as it would be too much for the sport. But I wont be watching next weekend. Just give him it now.
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Why not?
If we look at bodybuilding, where they can use all the drugs they want, it's easy to find guys that were vastly superior to the rest. Ronnie Coleman, Phil Heath... they weren't using anything different from everybody else and they were still much better for several years. Even to this day they're considered much better.
Whatever Pogacar/UAE are doing is not that different from Visma. Pogacar just responds better to whatever they are doing.
- Mar 20, 2022
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I don't think Pogacar has a clear better program than everyone else and you are trying to sell he is getting a free pass to full dope when others aren't allowed too and that explains this gigantic gap.
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Spot on. Had to be a portuguese woman to make this wonderful post.
Wasn't Usain Bolt exactely like that? Or Michael Phelbs?
Some are just more natural gifted than others. How is that new. Why I didnt win the Tour. Pogacar is the best talent/ natural gifted since Merckx and even above him, the guy won TDF at age 20. Just enjoy the show.
- Jan 29, 2021
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Correction. Now, your statement is right.
Every other legend doped too I rode vs some even and people celebrate them too incl some here i assume. I think it comes down to personal preference.
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You can't compare bodybuilding to cycling, the bodybuilder wins on a certain horrific unquantifiable aesthetic, the cyclist on quantifiable time/speed. Anyway Arnold looked way better
, because afterward it just became too exaggerated. Arnold was a Lysippus statue, Coleman a digitalized Hulk.In terms of cycling, can we really say Armstrong was more naturally gifted than Ullrich or was he on the best program? Lance didn't pay Ferrari a million to work exclusively with himself for nothing. To me, Jan had superior physiology. This is what makes it impossible to know where Pog really stands in the mother nature department in my opinion.
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Is there something I'm not remembering? I'm usually pretty tuned out after the last Paterberg, but still...
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You're comparing the mind to the body, and while in your case they might be equally complex, as a rule that is not the case.
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