Tadej Pogacar's teammates for Volta a Catalunya confirmed - Almeida, Vine, Soler and Sivakov form nuclear climbing block
CyclingSunday, 17 March 2024 at 14:53
UAE Team Emirates have confirmed their lineup for the Volta a Catalunya and it is headlined by none other than Tadej Pogacar. The UAE Team Emirates rider has with him a very strong team fully of climbers.
The Slovenian is the absolute favourite to win the overall classification. Even with a modest lineup, he would still be the man to beat in the seven-day race which features three mountainous summit finishes and a few more hilly stages. Pogacar makes his debut and with him is a team fully made up of climbers, several of which have the chance to also be up there in the fight for the GC.
João Almeida and Jay Vine come off Paris-Nice and could at their best be fighting for the podium; as is Marc Soler and Pavel Sivakov on paper - although the Frenchman has had problems with injuries earlier in the year. Felix Grossschartner and Domen Novak conclude what is an incredibly strong lineup which is expected to overwhelm the capacity of rival teams.
UAE Team Emirates for Volta a Catalunya: João Almeida, Felix Grossschartner, Domen Novak, Tadej Pogacar, Pavel Sivakov, Marc Soler and Jay Vine.
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- I don't watch Pogacar as strong as last year. He is racing in suspiciously conservative mode. I don't know if it's because his shape isn't perfect or because he's decided to race La Vuelta (then he doesn't want to overdo). A shame, I like the crazy pogacar, not this conservative version.
maria2024202411-07-2025 - they didn't pull the peloton, they were stopping the peloton (stopping Visma, that didn't want to let the breakaway go away).maria2024202411-07-2025
- tadej didn't know the real time gap with Mathieu. He watched the others accelerate and sprint to not lose time. As usual, the info-strategies work better in Visma than in UAE. Visma almost obtain its objective: Tadej in yellow. 1 second.maria2024202411-07-2025
- That looks like a pope hat with a white cross. Their helmets still look funny to me
KerisVroom11-07-2025 - Unfortunately, with the yellow jersey, he has less time for recovery.KerisVroom11-07-2025
- Rather avoid that angle on it ... with Jonas's extraordinary explosivity since the Dauphine, and Jorgenson's disappointing performance in the time trial, people could just as well see the time trial as a rare lapse in Visma's nutrition.Hill3311-07-2025
- While Visma wants him in the yellow to allow lesser time to rest, it is also strange that Pogi would sprint to the line ahead of everybody instead of just following the rivals wheel. Also they were pulling the peloton, they could have given them more minutes, Simon is not a challenger here, he is 14 minutes behind. So these are just mind games. Pogi wanted the stage win and the yellow but not the mountains oneabstractengineer11-07-2025
- There were stupid to let Merlier off the team for last yearabstractengineer11-07-2025
- Maybe the dopers can lend some doping help to Joans and Visma !frieders311-07-2025
- The mistake Vingegaard is making is that he’s trying to keep up with the two best classics riders while not competing in the classics anymore. The only person who can keep up with van der Poel is Pogacar. For Vingegaard to keep trying just means he’s burning energy he needs for later. He could come in at the end of the group on the same time, and not sprint, but he’s sprinting. He’s proud of his best 1 minute energy ever but still did that climb behind Pogacar. This isn’t going to go well for him, not when all indicstions are that Pogacar is as strong as he was last year.RidesHills11-07-2025