Tag: Tadej Pogacar
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Pogacar is unlike Vingegaard – a springtime state of play update
Spring is (sort of) here. Tadej Pogacar is winning bike races. Gauntlets are being thrown down. Where are we with everything? Shall we try and take stock? The WorldTour (the UCI still hasn’t found its space bar) officially began in January with the Tour Down Under, but road cycling’s deep-rooted eurocentrism means it never really…
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Jonas Wingegaard | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2022 Tour de France
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Jonas Vingegaard had forged a 2m22s advantage over Tadej Pogacar in the Alps during the second week of the Tour de France. The Pyrenees brought another minute on top of that to give him the kind of time gap that wasn’t going to be surrendered…
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Team-mates, tiredness and Tadej’s toil | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2022 Tour de France
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap The week began with Tadej Pogacar low on team-mates but leading Jonas Vingegaard. The week ended with Vingegaard low on team-mates but leading Pogacar. I’ll get to how that happened in a moment. Before then, one of the things I haven’t yet touched on is the performance of…
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Who will win the 2022 Tour de France?
There’s plenty of scope for slip-ups and misfortune over the course of a three-week bike race. All the same, it’s hard to see the 2022 Tour de France as anything other than Tadej Pogacar v Primoz Roglic v Covid-19. Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap The favourite Tadej Pogacar’s 2020 Tour de France win…
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Don’t assume that Tadej Pogacar will win even more big races than last year
It’s fair to say Tadej Pogacar had a pretty tidy 2021. As well as winning the Tour de France for the second year in a row, he also took two of the five Monuments. In April he edged out World Champion Julian Alaphilippe in Liege-Bastogne-Liege and then, right at the end of the year –…
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Victories for Froome and Cavendish, but mostly for Pogacar | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Victory for Chris Froome, who was named ‘most polite rider’ by Tour de France organisers ASO after the race. Getting through three weeks of frenetic grand tour racing was kind of a win too, given he suffered a broken hip, fractured femur, fractured elbow, broken…
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Eddy Merckx says Mark Cavendish is pretty tidy | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap After a frenetic first week that ended with Tadej Pogacar 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival, the headline news from the second week is that the Slovenian is now… 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival. Fortunately, the Tour de France…
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Pog smashes it, Rog crashes it, with dashes of Cavendish | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap The first week of the Tour de France is not normally so much about the racing as what ensues as a result of the racing. I’m talking about crashes, basically. In other races, you have a good few riders who are only…
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Let’s take a look at the 2021 Tour de France runner and riders
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap It’s almost Tour de France time. Who in hell is in with a chance of winning the thing this year? Last year’s Tour was an odd one. First of all, it was in September. Second of all, there was the matter of…
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Unfamiliar faces v familiar faces | a 2021 spring classics recap
The big springtime one-day races represent the divide between people who really follow cycling and people who very much like it and will definitely watch it when it’s on ITV4 but probably won’t actively seek it out. Whichever group you fall into, here’s a recap. Milan-Sanremo Milan-Sanremo came to a head as it always does,…