"We can't say he's not the best in history" - Armstrong, Wiggins and Hincapie on Tadej Pogacar afrer 100th pro win at Tour de France
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Tadej Pogacar put in another stunner of a performance on the fourth stage of the Tour de France to win his first stage of the week and 100th of his career. He beat Mathieu van der Poel in an excruciating sprint and was highly complemented by Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie and Bradley Wiggins.
In The Move podcast, looking back at what was the most important stage for the overall classification thus far, the trio has commented on the strong performances on the day based around Pogacar but also Jonas Vingegaard who resisted the attack of the World Champion in Saint-Hilaire.
Armstrong: "Exceptional Tadej Pogacar, that minute [up the climb]. This is a 2-man race, we saw that clearly today. Vingegaard was cut off, turned around, realized there was no one there and came back after being warned on the radio."
Wiggins: "What a performance. This guy won the Tour of Flanders in April and put himself in position to win Paris-Roubaix. Now he's at the Tour de France in the world champion's jersey doing this. It's unbelievable what he's doing. There are no words to describe this guy. We are running out of words".
Armstrong: "We can't say he's not the best in history looking at what he's doing. He has a great team. Great job by Almeida. I'm loving the race, it's not turning out to be what we expected, it's just being exciting in a wild way."
Hincapie: "If you look at the result it looked like a mountain stage. You have the best climbers in the world out there, but Tadej has changed the game. He's the one who changed the game, of how these people race. His level was so high that only the best climbers in the world could keep up with him. We saw UAE pulling, Visma pulling. It was a mental battle between the two teams trying to establish which is the dominant team. Tadej won, but there was equality in terms of the domestiques working for both. It was a very exciting stage".
Armstrong: "Among the first 30 finishers there were a total of 9 different times in stage 4 of the Tour de France".
Hincapie: "Indeed. We saw Remco come in 3 seconds late at the finish after the hard work he did to recover. That speaks for how hard the stage was. It was really hard. 650 watts for Tadej. Unbelievable. 2824VAM for almost 2 minutes [in the final climb], It's ridiculous."
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- It doesnt take a genius to understand that Pogi is 1 level above and Pogi is younger that Jonas, so Jonas will not win under ordinary circumstances. Pogi has to crack hard for Jonas to win. It doesn't matter whether you defend Jonas or not , facts remain facts. Jonas himself says his numbers are better than 2022/2023, so Jonas is more or less optimized and we are just see the stochastic variation due to other factors. I think he will retire along with Pedersen in WC denmarkabstractengineer13-11-2026
- They only raced each other during the 2026 Tour, but here's a few metrics to look at. Stage 3 (Granollers to Les Angles): Pogačar won the stage, finishing 2 seconds ahead of Vingegaard (2nd). Del Toro finished 24 seconds behind Stage 6 (Pau to Gavarnie-Gedre / Col du Tourmalet): Pogačar won solo, Vingegaard finished 2nd (losing 2:38), and Del Toro finished 3rd (at +2:57, finishing 19 seconds behind Vingegaard). Here, Jonas Vingegaard outclimbed Isaac del Toro by 19 seconds on the mountain stageawp13-11-2026
- your clinging to the past. Jonas was dropped by del toro many times last year and jonas never managed a climbing numers del toro did in dauphine last year -entire year. Trend is also evident theres no discussion your living in the past, its beent he same with jonas for many years now and only developing, meanwhile del toro is rising and developing greatly. This is all obvious stuff and im not even a del toro fan. No point discussing numbers or this i suspect you dont watch much now but rather think its 2022 still cause this aint hard.miguel13-11-2026
- We can go through metrics if you like, Del Toro, who I do admire and support, is not on the same level as Jonas just yet. You will see that in early 2027 if they have any crossover races. I do hope they both race the Giro. You are correct though, Jonas is getting older and will not be able to hand on much longer. I see 2027 as a good year for him. Obviously behind Tadej though.awp13-11-2026
- What wins? Are you LA operating under a pseudonym?mij13-11-2026
- My point is this - Tadej, Remco, Seixas are all the outliers. Many riders don’t hit their peak until 28. It’s way too early to write him off. And the pogi slo guy that hates him - he’s also immature. Ayuso needs time.mij13-11-2026
- Then you need to use ur eyes or head if you have cause del toro already dropped jonas two times and beat him in tdf stages already this year.. Del toro climbed(dauphine) better numbers than jonas did all year too. So ur feelings and wishful thinking doesnt amtter del toro himself has already surpassed jonas infact just facts. Its also very evident for anyone objective that Jonas is declining alot, its just the truth and super obvious.miguel13-11-2026
- None of those victories stand, so there's that,wrsty13-11-2026
- No surprise there; it is British Sycling, yes, with an S
Rafionain-Glas12-11-2026 - I like Del Toro but he's not on the level of Jonas, by a large margin.awp12-11-2026
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