The moment of Pogacar's attack on Isola 2000. 🇸🇮🧨 Less violent this time, "only" 31 km/h according to Strava. From here to the top he rode the last 9,6 km@6,5% at an average speed of 27 km/h, gaining more than 3 minutes on Jorgenson! #TDF2024
"These athletes do not come around very often" - Experts give lavish praise to 'absolute phenomenon' Tadej Pogacar
CyclingSaturday, 20 July 2024 at 16:00
Tadej Pogacar has continued his complete dominance of 2024's Grand Tours at the Tour de France. After winning the Giro d'Italia by nearly ten minutes, the UAE Team Emirates leader is now over five minutes ahead of main rival Jonas Vingegaard with two stages to go in France.
On stage 19, the Slovenian put the exclamation mark on his Tour de France with a 4th stage win of the race and utterly dominating the likes of Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel. "We are witnessing something very special here. These athletes do not come around very often and we have to enjoy it," Eurosport expert Dani Rowe says on the channel's coverage of the Grand Tour. "Team Visma | Lease a Bike did everything they could, it was clear that Jonas did not have the legs, he didn't try on La [Cime de la] Bonette, he couldn't follow on that attack of Pogacar. This man is in a league of his own."
With his four stage wins this Tour de France taking his overall tally to 15 at cycling's most iconic race, Mark Cavendish's newly broken record may soon be at threat by Pogacar. Also, with his six stage wins from the Giro d'Italia earlier this year added, the 25-year-old now has an incredible 10 Grand Tour stage wins already this calendar year, in the process breaking Eddy Merckx record of the most days spent in a Grand Tour leader's jersey in one year.
"It [10 wins] is enough to make about 8, 10 or 12 careers, what he's won this season alone," Australian sprinting legend and 24-time Grand Tour stage winner in his own right, Robbie McEwen on Eurosport's The Breakaway. "You hear of riders that win one Tour de France stage in their career and [say] 'I made it'. That makes a career, and he just does it time after time after time. He is an absolute phenomenon."
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- Oh look. CUD leans into another doper for commentary. Hey guys - there are other people to talk to... You know... people who didn't leave the sport in a cloud of shame...critguy07-11-2024
- Its results will mainly depend on him, though.Acapulco07-11-2024
- He needs a team fully commited where he is the lone capable of winning. In RBB there is several men who can, he would have been in competition.Acapulco07-11-2024
- agreed. and in spite of his doping, his TDF win was validated by the UCI with the mere addition of an asterisk.OCexile07-11-2024
- He was always a great tactician. But he pushed doping on his riders from back in the CSC days big time. I read Tyler's book, it was dark...awp07-11-2024
- wow, this is a shock. this guy is a major talent on the MTB, and he just won the WC. I'm surprised he doesn't want to spend a year enjoying the rainbow jersey.mij07-11-2024
- This is true. But also, for some reason the amount of Athletes who are getting asthma related to sports is on a steady climb. Not in just cycling but around the world in seemingly every single sport. I don’t have any explanation for this. Could it be the changes in weather conditions and such compared to 20yrs ago? Or is something going on in relation to doping? I have not read enough on this to have a solid understanding or opinionmd197507-11-2024
- "Armstrong won his 7 wins. Fair and square. Doping was rampant during his time. He did was just to level the playing field" comment from KHWong. He cheated, he enticed/forced teammates to cheat, he affected other's families and tainted other's reputations, he sued those who factually accused him of cheating in their attempt to prove breach of contract, he got paid to admit to his lies. Nice guy; right? Anyone who has not been prosecuted for cheating per THEIR OWN SPORT'S RULES THAT THEY AGREE TO ABIDE BY and continues to deny in public or to themselves, and rationalizes the reasons for doing so is weak of mind and body, has no integrity or ethics and ahould find another job or form their own cycling federation where anything goes. The fans will not care if you screw up your bodies for their entertainment. Just take look at boxing and American football. Even worse when fans of the sport themselves make those rationalizations for the cheaters. There has been cheating of all types throughout the history of many sports; nearly 150 years in cycling itself since competitions started, and the gambling and revenue that came along with them. Cheat if you want, but lack any personal integrity. If that is what you to be, or want to emulate fine; but no one should expect or receive pity for a premeditated decision to cheat in any manner. You are deceiving yourself if competing, and also deceiving the fans. Cycling will soon be like "professional wrestling": choreographed and with the winner being known in advance. Oh wait; that is what already has happened this year. It has been found that many of cycling's "greats" (i.e. Coppi, Merckx, et al.) were cheating and possibly caused (did cause) one or more premature deaths in cycling. Go ahead and enjoy a sport that you cannot trust; I will not.BraneDed07-11-2024
- Remco's public pronouncements are careful and deliberate. He is laying the groundwork for an exit a year from now if his 2025 results don't match his ambition.Renz07-11-2024