"Tadej Pogacar is doing Tadej Pogacar things" - Game over for Jonas Vingegaard at 2024 Tour de France says Lance Armstrong
CyclingTuesday, 16 July 2024 at 10:55
Lance Armstrong, as he does every day after each stage of the 2024 Tour de France, discussed with his colleagues on his podcast The Move, George Hincapie and Bradley Wiggins what happened during a historic queen stage on Sunday.
The Texan summed up Tadej Pogacar's superiority over Jonas Vingegaard and the rest of his rivals on the Bastille Day stage with brutal simplicity: "Tadej is doing Tadej things."
Hincapie explained that everyone in the peloton knew that Team Visma | Lease a Bike were going to set a very strong pace on all the climbs, in order to see if Vingegaard could drop Pogacar and that was what happened and in their opinion at least, completely sealed the Tour. "Today we knew Visma was going to pull from the start, everybody knew it in the peloton that they were going to do it, we can now sit here and criticize that tactic, but I like that aggressiveness," Hincapie analyses. "Pogacar is better, I think today Pogacar has won the Tour unless something weird happens."
Armstrong, for his part, believes UAE Team Emirates did the right thing. After several days of playing kamikaze, yesterday they let their rivals work so that in the end Pogacar destroyed his rival: "We've been very critical of the tactics and the aggressiveness, but today he raced perfectly," assesses the controversial American. "We're going to let them control, we're going to let them get their race going and what had to happen happened."
"We never saw Pogacar going to the limit with the attack," Hincapie adds.
Sir Bradley Wiggins is one of those who thinks that with the two stars of world cycling at 100% Vingegaard would beat Pogacar and that is why, the Slovenian decided to ride the Giro d'Italia this year. In the current circumstances, it is clear to him that it doesn't matter what tactics Visma uses because the Dane is a level below the Slovenian after his crash in the Itzulia Basque Country earlier this year however:
"I think Visma did what they had to do, they were in Pogacar's hands, they had to try something different. Even if Visma was 100 percent, the result was going to be the same, because this depends on Jonas being 100 percent, and he's not."
Pogacar (L) now leads Vingegaard (R) by over three minutes in the GC
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maria2024202407-05-2025 - mmmmm... AYUSO, Adam, AYUSO, Mc nulty, AYUSO.... UAE without the clear POgacar leadership could be a mess.... we'll see...maria2024202407-05-2025
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- So the Piddie GC experiment is over. He should have done that long agoabstractengineer07-05-2025
- So 50/50 huh? Not much of a prediction there.awp07-05-2025
- TdF history pretty resoundingly proves that may or may not be correct.itsent07-05-2025
- Stage win onlyabstractengineer07-05-2025
- Maybe she was pushed, she seemed too out of control for fellabstractengineer07-05-2025
- He wins the Vuelta because the best don't show up. With how he rides, he's better for the TdF but not good enough for who showsVeganpotter07-05-2025
- True, but unless Tadej or Jonas fall off their bike or get sick, no one is going to beat them. The 2014 Tour was decided by the Shark of Messina long before Contador or Froome were injured. I miss Nibali.awp07-05-2025
LOL
Another whining from guys who think that only Lance was doping. It is boring guys! Maybe go for a ride or something.
Have a nice day!
who is this guy talking?
The rehabilitation of the biggest criminal in the sport continues. Why publish this crap is beyond me.
I can't bring myself to listen to Armstrong. Obnoxious blow-hard.
The lead Doper of the Three Doper trio has spoken ! Just days after tearing Pog apart for his racing smarts !
Hincapie and Wiggins are nauseatingly anti-Pog and they can't even hide it anymore. "Sir" should check out the fact that Vingegaard's performance is his best ever, he has never been at a level as good as the level he is at now. Except if you're implying that a shaky Vingegaard just made the 2nd greatest climbing performance of all times, in which case I don't want to know what he would've done at a 100%.
Of course they have sour grapes at the sight of real all time cycling great.
Lol.
It makes sense that Vingo could do an even better ride without his life threatening injury 3 months ago. They love Pog they're always raving about him. You're just a Pog fanboy so you were hurt when they said Vingo could be even better at 100%. Why are you so sensitive? Everyone is allowed to have their opinions.
Just tell me you don't watch their podcast. It doesn't make sense that he's performing like this three months after his injuries unless he's at a 100%. Like I said, if that's his recovery pace you better start believing in miracles. It's more reasonable to assume that he recovered so fast (albeit how remains unknown) than it is to assume he's performing like this unrecovered.
How? Because until this year Visma was the best team with the best riders. Now, with Roglic and others gone or not at the TdF, JV is not as good as Tadej Pogacar. And let's not even begin to discuss the doping part of it. Because, yes, it is just as bad as it use to be. And anyone who thinks it isn't is just not facing reality