Tadej Pogacar in Flanders to recon one of 2025's biggest goals
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Tadej Pogacar's season will begin soon at the UAE Tour but before the World Champion makes his debut with the new UAE Team Emirates - XRG gear in competition, he is still doing some training and exploring of some of the races he will tackle this spring. This weekend he is in Flanders to remind himself of the cobbled sectors of one of the races he aims to win this spring.
Team Visma | Lease a Bike notably already conducted recon of the cobbled classics as early as November before teams even went on their team training camps, but it is not a given requirement to anticipate this. However for teams who take winning the Tour of Flanders seriously, every detail matters and they are keen on having their riders know the route like the back of their hand.
Hence, UAE is also present in Flanders this weekend with some of their riders to explore the route once again. Tadej Pogacar has shared an Instagram story on the climb of Berg ten Houte which will be tackled in the Belgian monument.
It is expected that the Slovenian will have the company of riders such as Tim Wellens, Jhonatan Narváez, Rune Herregodts and Florian Vermeersch in the race he won back in 2023 - with further teammates to be decided. It will be Pogacar's second main goal of the spring, following Milano-Sanremo.
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- Whatever the result, I believe the strategy by UAE to launch Pogacar was absolutely the right one. Unfortunately, they just were not able to execute it the way they must have planned, being all over the place at the start of the Cipressa.Cooldude23-03-2025
- They are without doubt not just the best two classics riders of this generation, but amongst the best of all time. MvdP is more suited to MSR and PR (which Pog has yet to race), while Pog is now almost untouchable at LBL and Lombardia. RVV is the only one where both basically have an equal chance to win.Cooldude23-03-2025
- bravissima!
maria2024202423-03-2025 - According to Tadej's Strava upload, he went up the Cipressa at an average speed of 37.6kph. Rocket ship! He did the 5.63km verified 'Cipressa' Strava segment in 8:59 minutes, which has a 4.3% average grade and total elevation gain of 229m. Naturally, he got the Strava KOM.Pogboom23-03-2025
- In Track and Field, there's Usain Bolt in the sprints and Kenya's Kipchoge in the marathon. Though Bolt can quite easily beat Kipchoge in the 100m dash, he probably won't even finish a marathon. Tadej won't beat Mathieu in a sprint, yet he wins the TDF while MVDP languishes in 50th place. Both are great champions in their respective fields, but my admiration goes to Tadej for trying.FredMan23-03-2025
- They went into the race as co-leaders!frieders323-03-2025
- He can win that sprint if he plays it right but leaving tha gap was ridiculous ! A spring after 6+ hours isn't a guarantee for MVDPfrieders323-03-2025
- The climbs are steeper on Flanders giving Pogi the advanatge as we saw before when he won!frieders323-03-2025
- VDP is best in a short sprint, so Pog was purposely leaving a gap in hopes that VDP wouldn't have enough to sprint for 310 meters at the end of 300 KM. Kwiatkowski did the same thing to Sagan at that same point and won because of it.acem8223-03-2025
- Ganna started winning the occasional end of season sprint a few years ago. It's been fun watching him change from a TT specialist into something more.RidesHills23-03-2025