"We hid in the bushes. The peloton didn't know where we were!" - Tadej Pogacar explains surprise early attack on stage 2 of Volta a Catalunya
CyclingTuesday, 19 March 2024 at 19:00
Very early on stage 2 of the 2024 Volta a Catalunya, news came through that Tadej Pogacar was on the attack, riding clear of the peloton alongside teammate, Domen Novak. Post-stage, the Slovenian explained in more detail what transpired.
“No one started attacking. Israel - Premier Tech told us they didn't want to do any work, so we decided to do the work. We came from behind, but no one came with us. Then we suddenly had an opening and decided to continue," recalled the UAE Team Emirates leader, who eventually won the stage in emphatic style, in his post-stage interview.
"We stopped for a pee-pee," Pogacar continues with a gleeful smile on his face as he recalls the details on the incident. "Then we hid in the bushes. The peloton didn't know where we were, haha. Just a little bit of fun!"
As mentioned, Pogacar didn't waste any energy in that mini-attack, as the Slovenian powered to a dominant stage win atop Vallter 2000, and he now holds a very comfortable overall lead in the general classification ahead of his nearest rival, Mikel Landa.
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- lol so true. hunt stages. pidcock is the most perplexing rider in the pelotonmij08-06-2025
- Nice to see Jonas coming out of his shell, both during and after the race. Wonder what he said that made Tadej react 'Oh really?!'.Renz08-06-2025
- ah
KerisVroom08-06-2025 - Jonas wanted to congratulate Tadej, that's all. He was distracted.
maria2024202408-06-2025 - A podium would have kept the streak going, but winning makes it even stronger. Since Jebel Hafeet at the UAE Tour, across Strade Bianchi and 4 monuments, he has been no worse than third. 9 consecutive podiums, 6 wins on the road, one GC. Good lord.RidesHills08-06-2025
- Fantastic and unexpected! a Jonas in Tadej style! My fear was that Jonas might be too worried (a bit paralyzed) by the risks of cycling after his crashes.. I'm very happy to see that it's not the case.maria2024202408-06-2025
- Weird that Jonas pulled his hand away from MvDP when MvDP wanted to congratulate him on the 2nd place.KerisVroom08-06-2025
- His team's management, coaches, and agent likely have better insight
Front24208-06-2025 - "I did my best-ever hour in terms of power and was seven minutes behind. The thing is, for me, I've never raced up an hour-long climb before. And I've never trained for an hour-long effort" Bro why are you doing GC for god's sake when you have not the talent, the capacity, the training for GCabstractengineer08-06-2025
- Yes it was shocking to lose the Jersey in such a fashion and there was far to much questionable riding between the top 4, often being saved because Gee was trying to get into the top 3 but riding like was 2nd half the time when was just the 4 of them. The fact Isaac held on for so long given that, at his age was incredible and well worth a celebration. Its his team that truely failed him by chasing down when had dropped Yates(?) that stage and was gonna strengthen his lead and had Gee for IPT riding hard to help (again) to try and get 3rd but stupidly UAE chased it down and that cost the race.HoopoeChai08-06-2025
The way the others are riding, he could stop to call his mother and still have time to write his diary. Maybe they could start doing pre-finish interviews with him waiting for the peleton to catch up to make it a bit more exciting?
Maybe on the next stage he'll have time to stop for a coffee.
He didn’t even try, just riding his own pace. Seems like a few of the rest have resigned themselves to waiting for him go before setting up a B-race between themselves (I’m pretty sure someone already prepared a parallel betting market for 2nd place on races he’s in).
Thankfully there are only so many races on the calendar and it’s not possible for the best never to meet.