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- This was the year Pog missed his entire team altitude training for the Tour due to a complex wrist fracture! Sean Kelly correctly predicted Pog would 'run out of gas' in the last week due to his extreme lack of training, based on Kelly's own experience of this. Gianetti appointed Adam Yates as co-leader of UAE in that Tour because 'there are no miracles in cycling' - Pog had not been able to put in the training to win.
- Merckx was lucky with timing. A bit like Federer before Nadal and Djokovic caught up. Tadej is racing at a time when all big teams scout talent very young and take development seriously. He is already the greatest.
- For every stage he loses time, he says it did not suit him.
- You do know you aren't allowed "teammates" on the TT, right? he lost 1.5 minutes there. Then the next day he didn't run out of teammates, he just ran out of gas. Yates and Majka headed up the road to salvage something for UAE
- Jonas, along with Mathieu will be remembered as some of the very few that took on the great Pogaçar when some people argued it wasn’t possible.
- Yep, one year out of sync.
- He was dominant in the 2020 Tour, shepherded by a dominant team. Pogacar stayed close. No one could have predicted how a superstar could emerge in that final time trial.
- The question is, why was he weak? The answer, he was following all the moves himself, quite a few times because he was isolated with no teammates. If he has teammates deeper into the stages, he doesn't need to cover attacks. If he doesn't have to cover attacks, he won't crack. This is all simple stuff, especially for folks who actually watch all the stages.
- This is easy math. Tadej races more single day races. Discrepancy solved.
- Gravels not hard to ride - let the bike ride itself, 'keep balance etc..
Barney31-05-2025
leedorney30-05-2025