3️⃣0️⃣th day in yellow 3️⃣0️⃣ème jour en jaune #TDF2024
Lance Armstrong charges against UAE and Tadej Pogacar: "I don't understand what they do in their meetings, it doesn't make sense what they did"
CyclingFriday, 12 July 2024 at 09:20
Lance Armstrong discussed with The Move podcast colleagues George Hincapie and Bradley Wiggins the eleventh stage of the 2024 Tour de France, in particular the tactics of UAE Team Emirates who worked all day long to have no gain at the end.
The seven-time winner (later stripped for doping) of 7 Tours said he did not understand the tactics of Tadej Pogacar and UAE Team Emirates during the stage. Pogacar burned through his team before attacking 31 kilometers from the finish. Initially the yellow jersey created a gap and looked to be on the way to create more differences and extend the buffer between himself and Jonas Vingegaard, but the Dane managed to claw back the gap on the following climb.
"This is the Tadej Pogacar we know and in many ways love, he is the best cyclist of this generation. Anyone who watched the stage without context would have thought it was him 1:15 behind Jonas Vingegaard and not the other way around. I don't understand what is happening in the team meetings. They have 4 riders in the top 10. It was a hard stage, but a stage to make a difference. It doesn't make sense what they did."
About Vingegaard, he made very clear the importance of what he achieved yesterday after what happened since the crash in the Itzulia: "Great day for Jonas Vingegaard, perhaps the greatest day of his career in the Tour de France".
His colleagues Hincapie and Wiggins also failed to understand what Pogacar did yesterday, insisting that he attacked on an unsuitable day. Hincapie highlighted Vingegaard's comeback and Wggins is clear that Pogagacar has lost confidence after yesterday:
George Hincapie
"Taking it cinematically, it was a Rocky Balboa-like fight, Pogacar has been throwing all kinds of punches at him, it looked like he had him, but Jonas came back, recovered, caught him and won the sprint. In my mind Jonas was screaming Adrian! when he got to the finish line".
Bradley Wiggins
"It was a strange stage. The other day Tadej said that Jonas was afraid of him and I think it was the opposite. He had two teammates next to him and there were 30 kilometers left in the stage, the only thing he had to do was keep the lead, I don't know what he expected to gain from that, maybe another 30 or 40 kilometers over his rivals, but he has shown weakness in his confidence".
Read also
claps 7visitors 116207
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Finishing the Vuelta seems to be a reasonably attainable goal. Getting on the team to do that will be the more difficult challenge.
santiagobenites20-12-2024 - To be fair, he has now stated his fuel regime had been corrected and the results concur.Mistermaumau20-12-2024
- You can look at things mathematically sometimes to get a better understanding of performance distribution. To be an elite cyclist you may need a number of qualities, say 8 some of which are quite obvious (engine), some more debatable (body type). If you look at distribution you’ll get a whole bunch with 6 or 7 very elevated values but 1-2 not so perfect and occasionally someone will pop up with all 8 really well developed. However, statistically, for that to be a given the chances drop by about an order of magnitude each time so in general for each 2 at the top you’ll have 20 at the next level, 200 at tge 3rd, 2000, etc. I don’t see the actual distribution as so weird, we have a few too many right at the very top level but statistically it’s just because for the past 15-20 years there wasn’t really anyone clearly standing out, level 1 was bunched with level two.Mistermaumau20-12-2024
- Froome is still riding? I thought he just dressed out and appeared at team photoshoots.Sweep20-12-2024
- Well, I’d say that like is more likely to attract line when it comes to certain interests and cycling is probably one of them. The rowdy alcohol swaying type as an example, that features occasionally but EACh time there is an incident is obviously an exception amongst cycling fans. We are not very vocal about our passion which is understandable considering the little interest an average person has so it often takes special circumstances for us to discover our peers :-)Mistermaumau20-12-2024
- Mas... Challenge Pogi!!! Ha Ha Haabstractengineer20-12-2024
- They (USA Cycling) raised their permit fee from from $95 to $125 and the minimum insurance charge went from $300 to $400.JoeyB20-12-2024
- Exactly who, Joey, is "they"? Flimsy, illogical conspiracy theories aside, it is in no one's interest (financial or otherwise) to "drive away small local events." Major cultural and macroeconomic factors are reducing ridership, but there is no "they" in this context.verve82520-12-2024
- And our virtual platforms allow us to "ride" famous place that we can't get to in person, which is a pretty fabulous aspect of this weird weird sport.RidesHills19-12-2024
- Which off-season are you referring to? The one after he won the Tour of California? The one after he won 3 stages and was on the podium of the Vuelta? The one after TJV screwed up, never put him away, and lost the Tour on the time trial? We've seen the guy hit the wall, lose energy, nearly fail, and lose races ("I'm dead") more than once. He's got a visible threshold and his fueling regimen is a clear weak spot. You'll need more detail to make this more than under defined insinuations .RidesHills19-12-2024