Tadej Pogacar: two-time Tour champion, Olympic medallist, winner of 5 monuments as well as a bronze medal at the World Championships. With all this looking like a distant memory as Vingegaard prepares to defend his Tour title once again, have Pogacar’s best days at the Tour de France been and gone? Can Tadej Pogacar ever win the Tour de France again?
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He most definitely will
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Pogacar in 2023 showed that he can go against Vingegaard in the Tour. He dropped vingegaard several times on the finals of climbs and could hang with him on the Tourmalet. He got dropped due to bad preparation. If he's in full focus for the Tour he can just hang with Vingegaard on any climb and outsprint him for bonus seconds. A caveat: he's never had a Grand Tour without at least one quite bad day AND VIngegaard's 3rd week ITT seems surreal. But i truly do think Pog showed extreme climbing levels this year.
TDF 2024Primož ROGLA Roglič will win strongest as ever and when Jonas and Pogi watches each other's
I wouldn't right him off so soon at just 26?
Is there a false reason?
I would like one more Jonas vs. Pogi TdF victory (one without caveats) before declaring Pogi done.
Pogo will win again I can all guarantee it
I agree with many things you say, but I would not be so hard on Pogacar. First, he suffered a serious injury which forced him off the bike before the Tour. Second, Vingo (also a total class act) also benefitted from extraordinary team support from Kuss, Van Aert and Kelderman & Co, which Pogacar did not have. Jumbo's repeated attacks meant that Poga had to burn (too) many extra matches, and ultimately paid for it. Third, Poga not only wants to win the Tour, but also Classics/one day races. That means he does not aim for a single peak in July like Vingegaard but multiple peaks, which are much harder to achieve. Having said that both are absolute class acts — and Vingegaard seems to have become slightly better still on the very long climbs. Looking forward to the 2024 TdF. Cheers!
Visma-Lease-A-Bike will be comprimised next Tour on the rouleur front. No Van Hooydonk (made the long kms hard) or WVA (big loss), as the former was forced to retire and the latter is going to the Giro. Making the race hard all throughout the Tour, and not just on the final climb, worked in Vingegaard's favour.
I think he will… if he focuses on it.
Until his next TdF win, I hope he keeps being the most exciting bike rider, winning monuments, strada bianchis, one week races and grand tours…
Spicy title, bit click-baity, no? No one can predict the future. Greetings from Slovenia, love and respect to Jonas!
I belive he can win it if he is doing the same preparation as Jonas Vingegaard and maybe trying to play the long run instead of going for the many stage wins bc he gets tired and will suffer at the most important week we have seen that plenty of times now
Pogačar has other goals to achive. In 2024 World Champioship should be his. He must also win at least one Giro and Vuelta. And there is also San Remo and Roubaix. The great race he's already won, and I hope he will win yet, is Ronde. Tree weeks Tour is too boring. To boring to sacriface the whole season fot it. I whould like to reduce Tour to two weeks. Than we could see cyclist racing more often with each other.
Pogačar can win Tour again. It also depends on Vingegard. I think that he could also try to win other races. Every great cyclinst must win world championship. There will be now years for climbers to do so. Vingegard should be focuse for that. You must wear rainbow stripes. To win only Tour is too little. And it is no chalenge, if you are the best for it, to only focus on that and not to try another things. I love Pogačar how he handle this. His altittude is like mine. So I really like it. Hes the biggest superstar of cycling.
Never say NEVER…SMH
Ok you got my dislike
I mean something will go wrong for Vingegaard at the tour eventually, so Pogi will have plenty more chances. Will he ever start the tour as the #1 favourite again? Maybe not. But he'll never be easy to beat
Lol this is such a BS video 😆
What a dumb take
Most definitely he will win at least one more, starting with 2024!
i think the edge lies slightly towards Vignegaard, but i dont agree that its not possible to win the Tour anymore. first of all he is by far the 2nd best TdF cyclist so only 1 thing has to go wrong for Vingegaard and Pogacar can easily win the Tour. and even if that doesnt happen, in 2022 i think Pogacar made mistakes due to him thinking he was a step better then Vingegaard, so he wasted a lot of energy in places where he shouldnt have. this year we had the crash in LBL, which clearly did hinder his preperation by a lot, thats why he had so many bad days and looked bad in the last week due to that. yes he is slightly less good in longer and multiple climbs but its not like he always is, in the 2nd big mountain stage which had 3 HC climbs and was the stage where Pogacar won most time on Vingegaard. Also he can win quite a bit of time always on other stages cuz of his sprint. if he had not had a bad day and an equal TT i think it would have been very hard this year to win for Vingegaard. So if he can have a long and good preperation in 2024 (not riding the Giro hopefully for him) then i think he wont have many bad days and i also think Vingegaard will not always be as good as he was this year, specially in the TT, it was by far the best TT he ever did, but will his TdF TT always be this good, or maybe he will have a less good TT, like he had in the Vuelta tthis year. so yea, i do think Vingegaard has the upper hand, but i would say more like 60-40 for 2024 TdF (if for both everything goes smoothly ofc).
He will win it. He has the ambitions
Sensational hornswoggle. Projections are fun; predictions less credible.
Not buyin' it…IF Tadej uses good strategy and has strong enough support from his team's, as noted, impressive talent, and that's the way it should be, he will beat Jonas. Last year was a bit fluky due to his injury at LBL.
He started the season in a great form, he crashed and lost training and came second in TdF, then got his form back. I think he had a fantastic 2023 given the circumstances. I have no doubt he has the capacity to win at least 2 grand tours in the same season.
Pogi can absolutely win the TdF in ‘24. His wrist injury clearly hampered his training leading up to the tour last summer. If Tadej is in form and has support from his team, he is the favorite. JV is also weakened with Primoz joining bora. I think Pog will be laser-focused on the tour, as will Jonas and Roglic. Should be a joy to watch.
Has Roglic used up all his bad luck? Will Bora have the supporting cast to lead him to a TdF victory? 2024 will be a fascinating season to watch no matter what!
He was winning in Feb last year which is pretty pointless. He does waste energy. What's worrying is that Jonus has dropped him at Tour and UAE race which is Pogs back yard. Unless Pog loses more weight then it's going to be tricky in the high mountains.