Tag: Tadej Pogacar
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Tadej Pogacar’s 11-second week | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the Tour de France
The route promised third week drama. The time gaps didn’t. Tadej Pogacar’s lead was 4m13s at the end of last week and, even with Mont Ventoux and the Alps on the menu, that only expanded to 4m24s by the end of the race. I finished the general classification section of my middle week recap by…
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Will Tadej Pogacar fade to yellow | a recap of Stages 11-15 of the 2025 Tour de France
It’s not shaping up to be a classic, is it? The only real note of intrigue remaining in this Tour de France is whether Tadej Pogacar might at some point show some sign of human frailty. If there was a moment that summed up where we are in this race, it came ahead of Stage…
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Tadej Pogacar’s (modern) blockbuster win + The People’s Champion | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Tour de France
There was plenty of action in the final week of the 2024 Tour de France – but action alone doesn’t hit too hard when there is so little sense of jeopardy. As such, Tadej Pogacar’s dominant victory was a lot more impressive than it was entertaining. Foreshadowing a damp squib The final week began with…
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Well done Pogacar, Vingegaard bloody | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Tour de France
There’s still a week to go in the Overcooked Tadej Pogacar v Undercooked Jonas Vingegaard experiment. The sport’s meat thermometers are really struggling to see how the Dane could overhaul what still appears to be a growing deficit though. Overcooked? Or underfed? Stage 10 probably goes down as the most boring Tour de France stage…
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Third wheel Remco, gravel grovelling, Mark Cavendish doesn’t know what year it is + more | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Tour de France
After nine stages of the 2024 Tour de France, the big stories are probably Remco Evenepoel inserting himself between yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar and reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard, and Mark Cavendish winning a stage – a feat that is almost paradoxically newsworthy precisely because of what a common occurrence it has been. Roll up, roll…
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Tadej the Giro, tomorrow the Tour | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
And surprises came there none – not unless you count Tadej Pogacar working his way up to the biggest winning margin in a Grand Tour this century as a surprise (which I’m sensing by this point you probably don’t). Start-stop Tuesday’s Stage 16 was positively awash with tension, excitement and intrigue, with more plot twists…
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Tadej, tomorrow and for the rest of the race? | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
No plot twists so far. And going by the form of Tadej Pogacar, we may very well never get one. The opening weekend This year’s Giro kicked off with a hilly stage and followed that up with the first summit finish. This meant that by the time we hit the working week, Tadej Pogacar already…
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Jonas Vingegaard does not deal in seconds | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Tour de France
Jonas Vingegaard’s average daily time gain over Tadej Pogacar over the first two weeks of this year’s Tour de France was less than half a second. He improved on this rather dramatically over the next two days. While the Dane was frequently second by seconds, by the end of three weeks he was first by…
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Seven seconds away | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Tour de France
I can actually cover this middle week in a paragraph for all the significant developments there’ve been: Jonas Vingegaard’s lead over Tadej Pogacar has slipped from a barely meaningful 17 seconds to a neither-here-nor-there 10 seconds. Everyone else is now even further behind than they previously were. I say that Vingegaard’s advantage is neither here…
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Two heads are better than none | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Tour de France
This year’s Tour de France was seen as a straight head-to-head between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard and almost immediately appeared to become that. That’s probably better than only having one of them left in the race – or neither. We have a decent idea how good different riders can be going into the Tour…