Tadej Pogačar sets out his racing season for 2024. He plans to hit the major tours Giro d’Italia and Tour de France along with the UCI Cycling World Championships. Can he do all this in the 2024 cycling season? Dan also covers the latest cyclocross racing with the return of Van der Poel and Pidcock.
00:00 Welcome
02:15 Tadej Pogacar race programme 2024
07:13 Cyclocross racing
11:00 Paris-Nice and Giro Donne route
12:59 Transfers and team news
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49 Comments
What do you think of Pogačar racing the Giro in 2024? 🤩
To my eyes, Lucinda Brand's drinking effort exactly matched Puck Pieterse's, but went completely without mention. Favouritism…?
He'll win the Giro at a cantor, but he'll lose the tour because he'll have used his top domestiques at the Giro (and probably pissed them off at the same time).
Pogacar will win the Giro without falling, be second or third with luck first at the tour, will win the world champs, but at the olympics it will be really surprising if he gets a medal.
Good for the Giro that Pogi is having a crack at it. Dai! The TdF is always going to be the biggest but isn't the only game in town.
Personally my biggest cycling disappointment of the year is that GCN+ stops its service… 💀
What the hell has hasppened at GCN
Great he is doing the Giro.
He will probably win it.
But will struggle to get a podium at the Tour.
Dan. I will miss GCN+. I enjoyed the last broadcast over the weekend. Try again in a few years.
Bye, GCN+, and thank you, it was great while it lasted. And Alaphilippe & Soudal nailed the kit reveal, building on EFs version from last year. Fun stuff!
Smart play by UAE to have Pogi go and try to get that early win, since it won't be that easy/cake walk for any team to just go win TDF 2024. Maybe Pogacar will let Roglic/Remco duke it out with Jonas and attack when the time is right.
I mean, come on… Gotta love Loulou 🤭
Inward hoods ban could really affect racing IMHO.
Puppy paws and inward levers help breakaway riders a lot. Could Remco or Pogi have won their monuments without them this season?
Interestingly enough they were all massive dopers.💉💉💉💉🤫🤐🤪🤣
history would say … depends on yer DOPE – just ask Lance and Froomoney IF it is possible to win every stage of every race all season
Why not
It s gonna be great for Cycling..i mean Cycling is not only Tour de France even though it is the greatest competition. But POGACAR at the Giro is gonna make Giro great again and Giro will add something great to POGACAR career and experience.. really can t wait
Thanks for all of the amazing work! So sad to see GCN+ go away. It is a shame. Hope the youtube channel continues to prosper!
Thank you for GCN+. Was good while it lasted.
No…
He chose the Giro to at least be able to win a Grand Tour next year
I love Ronde (the best race of the year), but also I know that Pogačar must ride and win Giro too. The question is Tour. Maybe if the competion in Giro is low, than that could be for Pogačar good training. But Vingegard was too strong this year in Tour, so is't up to his form next year.
The next 4 WC should suit Pogačar (and most of them Evenepoel, Roglič, and Vingegard if he would ride clasics). If Pogačar is in top shape, he will be the biggest favourite. But the clasic riders can much better tune their form.
Olympics is for Van der Poel, Van Aert and Pedersen and maybe for Philipsen and other sprinters. After Tour the GC riders will be also exhausted. It's also the reason way Van Aert will not ride Tour.
Career yes, in a season, nope….
Thank gord Monday isn't GCN news show less 👍
Pog & Wout doing the Giro is great to hear 🤘
It would be great if you published on GCN website a chart (which would probably need continuous updates) of which services will provide streaming of races in each of the current GCN+ territories (ideally including pricing). That would make the switch for us existing subscribers who don't live in the major countries much simpler.
Thank you once again for all the race coverage and amazing films you gave us through GCN+. Unfortunately due to school responsibilities I couldn't binge watch everything put into 'My List' as I wanted to watch them 'some time later', but a huge kudos to the whole team for the ones I managed to watch in time. I've been a subscriber since the early days of Race Pass and it has definitely been the best subscribtion service I've ever paid for.
Astana could learn from that kit reveal 😂
I thought the same, that Vingegaard might consider this as the best actual opportunity to go to the Giro himself as well. Crazy idea, but they are the best strategist.
Pogaćar – "They said I was MAD! But I'll show them!!"
I think Pog saw who was going to the Giro and probably thinks he can win it pretty handily and not have to expend too much energy. Dig deep one hard stage, get a handy lead, and then just defend. Froome has shown that you can win 2 grand tours back to back (Tour and Vuelta). And Kuss has shown that you can ride multiple Grand Tours in a row and do well. Maybe the notion that you need serious down time after a GT is becoming outdated. Trainers may be thinking that instead of getting done with a GT and then doing nothing and letting yourself get out of shape is not the way to go if you want to do consecutive 3 week races.
He said do do😂
About Pogacar, he hasn't won a grand tour since 2021 (being the Tour), believe it or not. And with a crowded list of favorites (Roglic, Vingegaard and Remco), it will be harder for him to get some light, so, he will go for a win at the Giro, and entertain the Tour crowd. And good for him if he wins.
I like Pogacar’s race schedule from a fan’s perspective, but I don’t like his chances to get the Giro/Tour. Pogacar himself is the most talented rider in the peloton, but his team and their tactics have led to critical mistakes. That said, the fact Vingegaard and Roglic are on different squads competing at the Tour will make for interesting racing that could benefit a rider like Pogacar.
Regarding Pogacar’s chances in the Olympics and World Championships, we have to assume that team Belgium will be the strongest squad once again, although they have been known to do weird things at big races.
sad to see the demise of GCN+. having a cycling specific channel has been a great watch for the last couple of years. Will all the same races now just be on Eurosport here in the UK as i'll just sub to that again
I would gladly give up all of these college football bowl games, yes, even the Avocados from Mexico Cure Bowl, for coverage of cycling events in the US. Many thanks for the fantastic coverage you gave to all aspects of women's and men's cycling events and the great documentaries. Happy Holidays GCN and GCN+ teams.
Treble? Shouldn't Giro, TdF and Vuelta be "the Treble"???
This same week Vingegaard said his dream is to win all the 3 grand tours in a year
Pog can join the Giro for +- 10 days warming up may be winning 1 stage and then drop for the tour.
GCN+ R.I.P😢 what is management thinking the biggest mistake ever…why would you cancel a fantastic product just b.s.💩💩💩
Thanks to all of you who made GCN+ such a success, it is a shame that it will be going away. WB/Discovery have made a huge mistake by not continuing it. Again, thanks for all of the great content on there, it shall truly be missed.
This is a concession on Pogacars part. Sorry, but there is nowhere around this. If he voluntarily doesn't show up in peak condition to square off against Jonas, it means he's already realized he's gonna lose, and has shifted his focus to other goals. I'm sure he's gonna win the Giro, but he stands no chance in the Tour given this news. A shame, really.
I'm going to really miss GCN+! You all really knocked it out of the park. Sad to see it go.
dan!
It's a criminal shame that GCN+ has been closed down, it's been such a fantastic service and brilliant for true cycling fans. Praise to all involved except the idiots who pulled the plug
We will miss you all so very much. GCN+ was like family, and more. Adieu for now…
UAE could pull off the SEPP KUSS-Move with Almeida in the Tour. Would be exciting to see!
That's not the song in the Giro twitter video?!
About the look of the bikes, you says they look stupid, I think there are a lot of stupid things in your show and they don’t get banned
You are full of glass generation, soon they’ll banned riding bikes because it’s not safe.🧚👗🦋🦄
Great show, Dan. Enjoyed it. The editing can be toned down a notch though… music is a bit loud and obnoxious… things like the quick-zoom in-out are unnecessary.