UAE Tour 2025, February 17-23

[Mayomaniac]

Tarling was like 20th on Jebel Hafeet as an 18 y/o, much more impressive than what today was.

Plus his climbing on some of the steep climbs in the Dauphine (as a domestique last year). How long he was up there in the gc group on Samoens 1600 was impressive.
Slovenian brat with a boring performance...

 

[Berniece]

Every race with Pogi sucks. We can just hope he will randomly fall off this level soon and will not dominate till his 30s

What level? I haven't seen him perform at 2024 level, yet

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If roglic does what Pogacar did today, almost everybody was going to call him boring and wheelsucker.

Roglic would have crashed at the bottom of the climb to give us a few minutes of excitement.

 

[titan31]

Fairly impressive by Seixas being up in that company

 

[MyFTP5.9w/kg]

This race sucks because Pogacar is like four levels above everyone else so even if he doesn't attack nobody else will vecause they're scared.

Were you watching the stage? Because Gall attacked. But when you look at the profile of the climb, you realise that it's always going to be a sprint for the climbers 99% of the time.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Rubio beat the record by about 2 minutes

 

[Froome]

This race sucks because Pogacar is like four levels above everyone else so even if he doesn't attack nobody else will vecause they're scared.

This race sucks every year.

 

[Mina.S]

Yeah it's fully within what is expected of him, but I think Tarling has more GC potential than Ganna ever did. Ganna is a lot more explosive, though.

Pogacar looks oddly in a bad mood.

Probably read that Gianetti won’t let him ride P-R 😅

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pogačar: "We asked INEOS to pay honour to the jersey and help control the breakaway. We were left alone."

I assume he's just joking?

 

[Monsi]

Pogačar: "We asked INEOS to pay honour to the jersey and help control the breakaway. We were left alone."

I assume he's just joking?

INEOS did pay honor to the leader’s jersey in the Oropa stage in the Giro so maybe Pogi wanted to see if they’d like to do it again.

 

[Tim Cahill]

INEOS did pay honor to the leader’s jersey in the Oropa stage in the Giro so maybe Pogi wanted to see if they’d like to do it again.

Yeah I thought it was foolish then but to be fair at least it's the Giro, a bit of prestige about it, I think even Pogacar knows this race is a bit naff given how miserable he's been looking this week.

 

[topcat]

Pogacar: We asked Ingenious to honour the Pog and ride for him and the benefit of cycling but they said No, we've got a future tour winner in Josh Tarling and we're nursing him along.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Fairly impressive by Seixas being up in that company

If the Tour of Turkey hadn't been WT in 2019 (and the climbing field was utterly terrible that year), I'm pretty sure he would now be the first-ever first year U23 to top-10 a WT MTF. As it is, he's still the youngest-ever by approximately 10 months.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Paul Seixas 10th in his first World Tour race! In 2 years, this kid will fight with Pogacar and Vingegaard for the Tour de France win!

No chance he will fight on his 2nd year as a pro. Maybe 4-5 years from now.

 

[Samamba]

Paul Seixas 10th in his first World Tour race! In 2 years, this kid will fight with Pogacar and Vingegaard for the Tour de France win!

This is how French media/fans always ruin a big french talent btw

 

[pelotonIQ]

Thinking back of todays stage, UAE domestiques looked annoyed that Poga didn't attack and that they had to work all the way to the finish line

 

[armchairclimber]

What the heck happened to Gloag? Presume he must be sick or something.

 

[Samamba]

What the heck happened to Gloag? Presume he must be sick or something.

Naa he's just riding for the Dutch Cofidis.

 

[yaco]

AG2R got this wrong at the finish. When they had four riders at the front they needed to throw riders up the road, instead of pacing. The way Seixas rode pacing on the front and still featuring on the finish, he would have been better to jump from the peleton.

 

[saunaking]

Could be worse. Could have Kirby on commentary - o *** wait

The one redeeming quality from today and I didn't hear it because Flobikes used a different team

 

[Peyroteo94]

Yes, I actually thought he could challenge Pogacar today. He was very impressive in the sprint on stage 1.

Lol

 

[Peyroteo94]

What level? I haven't seen him perform at 2024 level, yet

Dude, he just did 3 stages in 2025... a flat stage, a TT, and an uphill sprint...

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogačar: "We asked INEOS to pay honour to the jersey and help control the breakaway. We were left alone."

I assume he's just joking?

Moral rule.

 

[Berniece]

Dude, he just did 3 stages in 2025... a flat stage, a TT, and an uphill sprint...

What does that have to do with it? Don't get your panties in a bunch

 

[Tymek]

Maybe not as amazing as usual, but smart as never before. GOAT 😀