Tadej Pogacar already thinking about "trying to do something different from previous years" at Milano-Sanremo 2025
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More often than not, when Tadej Pogacar sets his mind to something, he ends up successful in his quest. So far in his career however, Milano-Sanremo has proved elusive. As such, in 2025, the Slovenian is open to trying something different.
After finishing 12th in 2020, Pogacar has been slowly but surely getting closer to the victory with finishes of 5th in 2022, 4th in 2023 and earlier this year, 3rd behind Jasper Philipsen and Michael Matthews. Over these editions of Milano-Sanremo, the UAE Team Emirates leader has repeatedly bet all his chips on a potentially decisive attack on the Poggio. Given the lack of tangible success via this method however, Pogacar admits he may need to mix things up.
“I have always liked to look at the heart of things. That is why I think I like to race like this, to race instinctively to increase the number of options available to win a race. My way of interpreting challenges leads me to dream of winning Milano-Sanremo in particular," the 26-year-old explains via La Gazzetta dello Sport. "There will always be someone faster than me there, but I know I can try to attack in some way. I am already thinking about how I will race, to do something different from previous years. In 2025, it will be a challenge, but I will try to win.”
So if not a Poggio attack, what can we expect from Pogacar at Milano-Sanremo in 2025? Well, whilst he obviously didn't fully open the doors to his secret plan for success, it can easily be theorised that maybe the UAE Team Emirates leader will go and go hard, from the Cipressa. If there is one thing that Pogacar's astonishing 2024 season has proven more than anything else, it's that the Slovenian superstar is not afraid of a long-range solo attack.
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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