Teams & Riders The Pogačar - Van der Poel rivalry

[CyclistAbi]

@hayneplane

That one indeed, the one Vélo d'Or was stolen from a classics rider although it was well deserved. So yeah, it will need to involve PR plus WC RR win for me, among others. Considering Pogi raced PR for the first time and only one rider could match him, others representing dead wood, i don't see a real problem involved in achieving that in the future. Then they will have to give Vélo d'Or to a rider that won PR and WC RR, among others. True revenge.

 

[hayneplane]

@hayneplane

That one indeed, the one Vélo d'Or was stolen from a classics rider although it was well deserved. So yeah, it will need to involve PR plus WC RR win for me, among others. Considering Pogi raced PR for the first time and only one rider could match him, others representing dead wood, i don't see a real problem involved in achieving that in the future. Then they will have to give Vélo d'Or to a rider that won PR and WC RR, among others. True revenge.

Velo D’Or pretty much by default goes to the Tour de France winner unless someone else has done something extraordinary not done in decades.

 

[Red Rick]

Velo D’Or pretty much by default goes to the Tour de France winner unless someone else has done something extraordinary not done in decades.

Nah, it's more like TdF is the tiebreaker in case there's not much difference, or if nobody truly has a world class season it goes to the TdF winner by default.

 

[Berniece]

Velo D’Or pretty much by default goes to the Tour de France winner unless someone else has done something extraordinary not done in decades.

Very true, like in 2022 /jk

 

[hayneplane]

Very true, like in 2022 /jk

If you include the years Armstrong won it but was then stripped of it then pretty much 50% of the years since the first award in 1992 saw the TDF champion win the Vélo D’Or.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Gilbert is an obvious winner (or even Boonen) without being a GT contender.
If Pogacar wins the Tour, he will win the Velo d'Or but that's just because he also wins a lot of important races like LBL and RVV.

 

[Mosul]

They've won the last 9 monuments, last 3 World championships and the big 2 one day races so far this year. This can't go on like this can it?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

They've won the last 9 monuments, last 3 World championships and the big 2 one day races so far this year. This can't go on like this can it?

Actually it can. They are the best one-day racers in the last 30-40 years, both at the peak of their powers.