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Is 2024 Tadej Pogacar the best so far? "The feeling on the bike is a lot better compared to previous years"
CyclingWednesday, 20 March 2024 at 12:43
Tadej Pogacar is so far having an explosive start to the 2024 season, dominating Strade Bianche and so far the Volta a Catalunya too. There are questions on whether he already is at his best level and there are positive signs.
At the start of today's Catalunya stage, which ends atop Port Ainé, the UAE Team Emirates rider told his thoughts: “Today is a completely different day. Many riders will choose to attack. It is therefore more difficult to control. We will do our best to stay together and then start the final climb as fresh as possible.”
Yesterday at Vallter 2000 the Slovenian dominated the uphill finish and if nothing goes wrong, he is the ultimate favourite and is riding without too much pressure. He won with an impressive gap over Mikel Landa and that, together with his astonishing Strade Bianche ride, it makes it a question on whether he is at his best level.
He responds to that: “When I look at my wattages, they are very good. The feeling on the bike is a lot better compared to previous years," he admits. Ahead of a very important Grand Tour campaign with a Giro d'Italia debut and a return to the Tour de France, these are positive signs for the 25-year old.
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- Based on what argument?Mistermaumau21-12-2024
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- Lot of contradictory information floating around world cup contenders, someone should do some tidying up.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
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- 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
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