🎙️ Tadej Pogacar, ansioso en Eurosport con el reto Giro-Tour y el resto de objetivos de su temporada. #LaCasadelCiclismo
"I'd love to try but I'd probably be lapped by Mathieu van der Poel on the first lap" - Tadej Pogacar open to racing cyclocross in future
CyclocrossWednesday, 28 February 2024 at 22:39
2024 is set to be a big year for Tadej Pogacar as he takes on the immense challenge of a Giro d'Italia/Tour de France double. Clearly someone who likes to test himself, could the Slovenian try his luck at cyclocross over the coming years?
This was one of the questions posed to the two-time former Tour de France winner in a recent Q&A with Eurosport ahead of his season opener at Strade Bianche. "Oh yeah, I'd love to try one day!" Pogacar answers enthusiastically, although he sees one major stumbling block to any potential ambitions. "I'd probably be lapped by Mathieu van der Poel on the first lap so I'm not sure it makes sense. I can't even jump over the beams so I would be pretty shit. One day I could try it maybe."
Pogacar and van der Poel are known to be good friends off the bike as well as big rivals on it. In fact, recently the pair were spotted training together during the off-season. "We are good friends," says Pogacar when asked about the relationship. "We met each other on the road in Spain and we did some good training together."
The meeting was actually not planned. "It was a coincidence yeah," Pogacar explains. "We saw him on the road, picked him up and then we rode a couple of hours together. It was a really nice training but then it was a shame he had a cyclocross race after so we couldn't train more."
claps 7visitors 14951
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Based on what argument?Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Agreed except the length of climbs, pretty sure you can stretch that to about a km unless we’re talking about half a dozen in quick succession.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Lot of contradictory information floating around world cup contenders, someone should do some tidying up.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- A bit much to suggest that Pogacar is better than MvdP on most terrains. The only terrain Pogacar is clearly better is long climbs, on any other terrain they are pretty even except flat cobbles and short and steep climbs (max a few 100 mtrs) where MvdP is clearly better than Pogacar.Velovibes21-12-2024
- The likelihood of RE improving enough at this point to outclass TP or JV is less than zero.verve82521-12-2024
- That’s the most stupid thing I’ve read for a long time, did you not go to school and learn even the most basic physics? Aero depends on one thing only, drag, drag depends speed and the relationship is squared and apart from maybe at zero or the speed of sound or due to side winds that relationship is valid at all speeds, it dies not “suddenly” start at a magic number. Very simply, the faster you go the more the effect becomes important. If you think 25km/h is needed to have noticeable effects you’re delusional, athletic WR are cancelled as soon as winds top 2m/s that’s 7.2km/h, why because the assistance is already too important at that speed and the times prove it. You don’t even consider wind which can significantly increase the effective speed for aerodynamics and you underestimate speed of climbs, 6% is ridden more at 30 than 25km/h, a speed at which early generation high rims were considered to have more advantages than disadvantages. And finally, as in normal races you can’t just switch bikes according to terrain, it’s pretty pointless to discuss climbs as a separate situation, the aero will have justified itself plenty during the rest of the ride.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- If you look at how much TP progressed in that 1 1/2 years you can no longer say that’s nothing. If Remco improves as much he’s a challenger!Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Froome wishing to ride the Vuelta...he won't even be selected for the team!frieders320-12-2024
- Keep telling yourself that Remco but you not only have Tadeg to beat but Jonas!frieders320-12-2024
- Seems farfetched - I agree. Mas has beaten him once. Giro d'Emillia I think - 2022mobk20-12-2024