#VeloDor finalists (via @lequipe) 🇩🇰 @VingegaardJonas 🇸🇮 @rogla 🇧🇪 @EvenepoelRemco 🇪🇷 @GrmayeBiniam 🇨🇭@MarcHirschi 🇳🇱@mathieuvdpoel 🇸🇮 @TamauPogi 🇦🇺 Ben O'Connor 🇺🇸 @MatteoJorg 🇧🇪 @MerlierTim
Candidates for 2024 Velo d'Or revealed: Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Mathieu van der Poel, Lotte Kopecky and more!
CyclingMonday, 14 October 2024 at 17:30
Every year the Velo d'Or is awarded to some of the best cyclists on the planet for that specific year and at the end of October we will learn who some of the most prestigious journalists selected for this award. We have got the very best in the business from both the men's and women's side.
The men's vote has very little doubt on the winner. It is believed that pretty much unanimously Tadej Pogacar will receive maximum votes after winning two monuments, two Grand Tours, the World title, over two dozen World Tour races and scored over double the UCI points of his closest rival Remco Evenepoel. Mathieu van der Poel, Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic and all other big hitters of the season will be eligible for voting.
Contenders for men's Velo d'Or:
Jonas Vingegaard
Primoz Roglic
Remco Evenepoel
Biniam Girmay
Marc Hirschi
Mathieu van der Poel
Tadej Pogacar
Ben O'Connor
Matteo Jorgenson
Tim Merlier
In the women's side we do expect a more open battle featuring World Champion Lotte Kopecky; Giro Donne winner Elisa Longo Borghini; Vuelta winner Demi Vollering; Tour de France Femmes winner Katarzyna Niewiadoma; Dominating sprinter Lorena Wiebes; Olympic road race champion Kristen Faulkner and time-trial Olympic and World champion Grace Brown.
Contenders for women's Velo d'Or:
Demi Vollering
Lorena Wiebes
Pauliena Rooijakkers
Grace Brown
Evita Muzic
Lotte Kopecky
Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Marianne Vos
Kristen Faulkner
Elisa Longo Borghini
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Women's #VeloDor 2024 finalists (via @lequipe) 🇳🇱 @demivollering 🇳🇱 @lorenawiebes 🇳🇱 @PaulienaR 🇦🇺 @GLBrown321 🇫🇷 @EvitaMuzic 🇧🇪 @LotteKopecky 🇵🇱 @Kniewiadoma 🇳🇱 @marianne_vos 🇺🇸 @FaulknerKristen 🇮🇹 @ElisaLongoB
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- Avoiding him is a good strategy, you get more wins and then you can compete in the TDF relatively relaxed. Pit yourself against Pogi and not only there will be no wins, it will be considerable mental setbackabstractengineer21-12-2024
- If you hold onto then, you blowup in a minute and then you finish 5 minutes down like Ben O'Connorabstractengineer21-12-2024
- Based on what argument?Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Agreed except the length of climbs, pretty sure you can stretch that to about a km unless we’re talking about half a dozen in quick succession.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Lot of contradictory information floating around world cup contenders, someone should do some tidying up.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- A bit much to suggest that Pogacar is better than MvdP on most terrains. The only terrain Pogacar is clearly better is long climbs, on any other terrain they are pretty even except flat cobbles and short and steep climbs (max a few 100 mtrs) where MvdP is clearly better than Pogacar.Velovibes21-12-2024
- The likelihood of RE improving enough at this point to outclass TP or JV is less than zero.verve82521-12-2024
- That’s the most stupid thing I’ve read for a long time, did you not go to school and learn even the most basic physics? Aero depends on one thing only, drag, drag depends speed and the relationship is squared and apart from maybe at zero or the speed of sound or due to side winds that relationship is valid at all speeds, it dies not “suddenly” start at a magic number. Very simply, the faster you go the more the effect becomes important. If you think 25km/h is needed to have noticeable effects you’re delusional, athletic WR are cancelled as soon as winds top 2m/s that’s 7.2km/h, why because the assistance is already too important at that speed and the times prove it. You don’t even consider wind which can significantly increase the effective speed for aerodynamics and you underestimate speed of climbs, 6% is ridden more at 30 than 25km/h, a speed at which early generation high rims were considered to have more advantages than disadvantages. And finally, as in normal races you can’t just switch bikes according to terrain, it’s pretty pointless to discuss climbs as a separate situation, the aero will have justified itself plenty during the rest of the ride.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- If you look at how much TP progressed in that 1 1/2 years you can no longer say that’s nothing. If Remco improves as much he’s a challenger!Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Froome wishing to ride the Vuelta...he won't even be selected for the team!frieders320-12-2024