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"Morale is very good" - Tadej Pogacar enjoys rare quiet day on stage 7 of the Tour de France
CyclingFriday, 07 July 2023 at 18:23
After two electric days of racing in the Pyrenees, stage 7 of the 2023 Tour de France was a much calmer and quieter day of racing for the general classification riders.
As Tadej Pogacar admits in a post-stage interview though, the intense heat didn't make it an easy day. "It was a quite nice day until the last 50 kilometres when we started to go full gas and it got warmer and harder," explains the Slovenian. "But it was a pretty good day overall."
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Jasper Philipsen was the winner once again, his third bunch sprint victory of the race. For Pogacar however, it was all about staying safe and avoiding incident, something he did successfully.
"The morale is very good. For sure we have a good chance [of getting a good GC result]. But there is still a long way to go until Paris," the UAE Team Emirates leader continues. "We need to keep our legs as they were yesterday."
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024