🇦🇪 #UAETour Time trial day ✅ Three #UAETeamEmirates riders in the top 10: 4th @TamauPogi 5th @JooAlmeida98 6th @mikkelbbjerg #WeAreUAE
After a bout of Covid in the early season there were questions on whether Tadej Pogacar would be entering his first race of the season in the form that he has shown in the last few years. Those doubts however seemed to have been pushed away in today's time-trial at the UAE Tour as the UAE Team Emirates rider came home with the fourth best time, 18 seconds behind stage winner Stefan Bissegger.
“It was a really fast course with a big tail wind on the way out and then on the way back it was just down to raw power. I did my strongest 10 minutes ever so I’m pretty happy, it was a good day out and we’re looking strong for the next days," Pogacar confirmed after the stage. It is a big deal for a rider like Pogacar to claim he's gotten a new best power output over this distance, it is expected that he will be in great form for the stages that lie ahead.
He added: "João and Mikkel were well up there today also so in the team the guys are all up around the top. We’re all feeling good and in fine shape for the rest of this race. Tomorrow the first mountain stage will be another big test.”
Besides finishing fourth, UAE also had João Almeida finish fifth which puts the team in a great position when it comes to their overall ambitions. Tomorrow at Jebel Jais there will be a battle between the climbers and UAE have a chance to grab the lead of the race with either of those riders, who will have George Bennett and Rafal Majka as major support.
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James2631823-12-2024 - The only handicap for Pogi is heat in the Tour de France but it seems resolved drastically this year and it seems destined to take more glory to his unmatched palmares in years.James2631823-12-2024
- Everyone rides behind Pogacar.Sweep23-12-2024
- everything you hear about lance and his team back in their “glory” days is so weird and creepy and gross. it always just reinforces that at least among a certain group, lance isn’t hated and despised only for the doping — other dopers have been cast out but not HATED — it’s because he’s just an extremely AWFUL human being in virtually every way imaginable.OCexile23-12-2024
- When I ask AI "Has Tadej Pogacar ever raced cyclocross against Mathieu van der Poel?", the answer says NO. Is that really true? Wonder how they would do when clearly in van der Poel's territory.Ride197423-12-2024
- Next year in Rwanda, the peloton will likely be Strade Bianche Pogi style attack like we saw this last March.James2631823-12-2024
- There were a lot of riders whose biggest mistake was joining Armstrong's team. They all sold their souls. I remember Boonen losing the PR because he had to stop and wait for Hincapie to climb out of a ditch.Sweep23-12-2024
- Again, again and again..........Senna196023-12-2024
- Veni Vidi Viciabstractengineer23-12-2024
- Funny I've watched that moment a few times when Cancellara powered away and thought was that for real? Now Pogacar does similar regularly and I don't know what to think?roadman5412123-12-2024