Pro-cycling thread

Maybe Jorgenson should go back to Movistar.

offs right thats me done with nice guy pog. taking the win from matty, and the spots back of carapaz. bawbag!

Imagine how good lazcano would be at a proper team

Are bookies offering odds on Pog to win the Vuelta too?

they don't insult Pog by making him ride the vuelta

Carapaz has a 14 point lead.

No one has done the GT triple have they? Surely that's on Pog's radar.

He's not going to ride the Vuelta.

ah nice one

Don't be soft. There's no way you can be at GT winning form for 9 weeks of the year, especially if you're peaking at other times too, i.e. the spring classics.

You're right, there's no way I could be.

Pog though looks like he could start the Vuelta after a month on the piss and still take it.

olympic gold road and all 3 gt's in one year? would be rude not to now.

Says who?

Oh, I forgot about the Olympics. I presume he's going to ride that too.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/a-new-challenge-tadej-pogacar-confirms-giro-ditalia-tour-de-france-olympics-and-worlds/

Pogacar himself, at his rest day press conference on Monday.

Same way he says he "definitely won't attack today" and proceeds to take a stage.

"This year it's 99% impossible," he said when asked if he could add the final Grand Tour of the season to his schedule. "For next year, it's a much bigger chance to see me in the Vuelta."

He's got to be the eighth man to win the GT triple crown.

He could be the first to do it in a single season though. I'd be after that title rather than pissing about with Olympics.

The Olympics are a one day race, using the form you've built in the previous three months, so all he has to do between the end of the Tour and the Olympic RR is rest.

If he wanted to win the Vuelta, he'd need to be going to altitude for another three weeks, whilst hoping and praying that his body doesn't shut down in protest.

Yeah, which is why it's so hard and he might be the first guy to do it.

Maybe if it was a non-Olympic year or he didn't fancy his chances at the Worlds

Chris Froome rode four consecutive GTs between the 2017 and 2018 Tours (so the 2017 Tour and Vuelta, then the 2018 Giro and Tour). He won the first three and came third in the last one, but said he was broken afterwards that it took him 6 months to recover.

Surely at some point conventional logic goes out the window with someone who seems so far ahead of the rest…?

That was my thinking. Also, you've won the first two, "why not" must enter your head.

I am turning GTs into a ride around the park though, I know. But he does make it look fucking easy.

I think you have to protect athletes from themselves some time, so I hope his management team are ensuring that he knows it's not a viable option. If he wants to race again this year, then point him at the Giro, Tour and Worlds triple crown, as a) that is feasible as the Worlds course is hard this year and b) only two other riders have ever done it.

I'd be after that title rather than pissing about with Olympics.

completely agree. it is within grasp for him surely