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- Too much time spent on TT optimisation, but not climbing is my suspicion.
- you’re paying a rider multi millions, you find money to pay someone to escort him. not for the entire team, but how much money did Ineos lose by not having a top tier Egan? the lost revenue from losing your top rider more than offsets the $100 or so it would take per ride.
- he was a bit ill, but it’s not an excuse. then why say it???
- Tadej comes back to sweep the italian classics including Lombardia. you can barely blame a guy for not being at his best post TdF crushing of his opponents.
- Tadej didn’t finish LBL. that isn’t beating him. Remco has very few wins over Tadej. San Sebastián and road worlds. Yes Remco is almost unbeatable in a TT.
- he has great wins, as I said, his palmares an amazing. but other than a TT, he does not beat Tadej head-to-head. he won’t this year. he won’t next year. and likely never will. he is barely younger.
- he has a great attitude.
- He's sgetting paid a lot of money to finsh better than 2nd-5th!
- Let the excuses flow...typical Remco!

Pogi's weakness seems to be that he can't succeed in the immediate post-tour races (maybe he'll show that he can this year?). If you compare his track record in the races after the Tour de France but before the Canadian classics with that of Vinge, they do not reflect his class in other parts of the season. In 2020 he didn't race anything during that period; in 2021 he was surprisingly beaten by Richard Carapaz in the Olympic Road Race, finishing 3rd, and DNFd in the Bretagne Classic; in 2022 he DNFd in Donostia Klasikoa and finished 89th in the Bretagne Classic; in 2023 he finished 3rd at the WCh RR, being unable to match Mvdp's acceleration despite the Dutchman having had his least impressive Tour de France, and then he went on for a stinker at the WCh TT. In 2024 and 2025 Pogi abandoned racing during the immediate post-tour races entirely.
With Vinge it's a different story entirely - in 2021 he finished 8th at Donostia; in 2022 he didn't race during that period; in 2023 he backed up his Tour level at La Vuelta; in 2024 he won the Tour de Pologne and in 2025 he won La Vuelta.
In short, Pogi hasn't performed well in the immediate post-tour period. He's put on some good performances but anyone who says that those reflect his true class probably wouldn't be thinking straight. For that reason, if he wants to assert himself as the GOAT, he needs to win Donostia, La Vuelta, Tour de Pologne and the Bretagne Classic etc. Sometimes, with the debate about Tadej surpassing Merckx, we focus only on the races where he's been on a top level but not won them, but we forget about the races where he's never managed to get on top form anyway.
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