How Tadej Pogacar Won the Tour de France 2021 

Check out the article analysing Pogacar's 2021 Tour de France performance here | lanternerouge.com.au/2022/01/28/the-day-when-pogacar-won-tour-de-france-2021/

I've been studying this extensively, and I've come to the conclusion he won by cycling faster than everyone else.

I hope you are aware that the closed caption changes "Tadej Pogacar" into "Teddy Pikachu" and it made me laugh for a solid minute. Great video as always, LR!

"Why should I be worried about Jonas Vingegaard? Well this aged well..🤣😂🤣😂

I so hope Jumbo doesn't run into something like a sign or virus, they are the only real threat I feel. Same with Pog btw, without him TJV would probably 1-2 the podium with Jonas and Roglic. edit: 1 year later -> TJV wins Giro ( Primoz ), Tour ( Jonas ) AND Vuelta with their super domestique Sepp Kuss. Ow, while also coming 1-2-3 on the podium there. I mean, when will the other teams wake up and realize their approach is outdated? I hope next year there will be tougher fights!

I really hope for a strong Roglic this year.. pls no crashes for any of the gc guys to keep it interesting =) I'm also looking forward to see what tactics bora comes up with

haha spicy edit there LR, when he said "why should I be?" that was the day before the final time trial, with a 5:45 lead

I. Just. Love. You. Honestly those videos are great but with your personality they get much better. I love this mix between analysis and a good sense of humor

That look on WVA’s face as Roglic comes in….

I absolutely love how responded to this reporters question. Reminds me of Kobe and his attitude towards competition. 7:34

Turn on subtitles: "How did Teddy Pikachu win the 2021 Tour de France?" Thank you RU-vid subtitles

Every time I see the “Why should I be?” clip, it’s cracks me up how you can see how hard he tries to keep a straight face.

These videos are the reason why I love your channel so much.

rain+ cold+ Pogo= 100% win. What about Pogo in hot weather and burning sun?

Kung’s reaction to that pog tt always gets me😂. I think pog didn’t really push himself last year as he didn’t have any real competition, will be much more interesting if rog can avoid crashing this year

Why should I be worried about Vangagaard? Fast forward to 2022 you realize that didn’t age well. Jonas and Team Jumbo-Visma killing it

🤞🤞🤞Please no crashes for Roglic this year, PLEASE!!!! 😱 Also, looking forward to your recaps 😁

Nicely done...sets the table and starts putting me in that three week TDF zone...you know that zone where your focus is totally on the race where you kind of hold your breath until it's over and like a drug you go through withdrawals when it's over. I am an avid cycling fan but no other race on the calendar has the same effect. I guess for the two of you no tears take a breath and a little vacation 😌.

we were robbed, Roglic was in such a good form....lets hope this time we can have a good show.

Aside from the usual factors (Crashes, COVID) the biggest threat to Pog is unseasonably hot weather over multiple back to back stages. His tactics/racecraft in the moment is just superb. No doubt Jonas is a beast and a huge talent…I hope he does well but he’s got his work cut out for him to even podium.

It was kind of amazing to see Pogacar as such a giant force in the tour being the only rider (still in the race) capable of doing what he is doing. I wish both jumbo visma and UAE good luck so they can both put up the best fight and give us the best show.

great recap, thank you Lanterne!

"Why should I be worried?" "You're right, dumb question."

Interesting career choice for an Australian lawyer. I was also a lawyer in Sydney, moved to publishing in Hong Kong. More power to you!!

Nevet underrestemate denmark

BOOM, Jonas delivered!

Just the video we needed right now

interview at the end reminds me the 'trash edit" you did. That was so good

Stefan Küng's face tells you all you need to know about how Pog won the TDF.

Special vitamins always special vitamins....

I think the Pogacar-hot weather situation is more of a myth dictated by wishful thinking: he's been really good at the UAE Tour in the last 2 years and he won the last edition of the Tour of California. So I don't think he has problems with hot weather, if anything it looks like his performances don't drop in cold conditions

Now, he can say that he's worried by Vingegaard

Keen for your videos of this year's race

TP “Why should i Be worried?” JV “Hold my beer”

Just ruptured my meniscus in a cycling crashes so on crutches for a fair while, silver lining I get to watch every second of the tour 🙌🙈😅

Loved this video format! More like this please guys!

Im just hoping covid will not have such a big effect on the tour with teams having to drop out and such. Besides that its hard to tell how good Pogacar really is this year compared to Jonas and Roglic but it will be exciting to see.

Why should I be worried? 🤔🥇

I think that year after year from 2020 on, Tadej has become almost perfect. Sprinting and bike handling are his only handycaps and he lost to only the very best. If his team is healthy I really dont think that even a perfect Roglic or Bernal can beat him now nevermind Vingegaard who already shows cracks in this last crit of Dauphiné. He looks alot stronger and focused in 2022. As I see after this early season he is going for the absolut record as a TdF winner.

Sonny got no flak for that move. Obviously the events after that are terrible for him, but others need to know that causing falls like that is not on.

Pogacar in 2021 after winning TDF "Why should I be worried?" (about Vingegaard)....well.....😂

I think we need a few hot weather mountain stages for pog to crack

Well " why i should be worried " have an answer after a year wow man

Excellent vid. Thank you

"errr, why should I be worried?"... classic line

On the ventoux stage pogacar said afterwards that he was dehydrated and could get water from anaywhere

This is perfect route for O'Connor short of cobbles. There's such a climb heavy repetitive route again twice over galibier just bookending stages this year if all goes well I think eventually Jonas will be asked to not sacrifice podium or top5 since dauphine showed that but one of two will go from range on planned attack forcing tadej to cover and giving one a free ride on day where hopefully they have diamonds in there legs. As we saw in tirreno when tadej buries gas he goes away quick and Jonas himself said his acceleration is just incredible and nobody was in that league. Jonas had poor tt at tirreno is obviously stronger, and as long as cobbles don't put them back after tadej looking elite on pave, that would be issue that tadej will let a Thomas or kung a cobbler who can climb take yellow until maybe alpe d-huez where I'd guess tjv want jersey. If tadej is confident taking it there it's bad sign meaning he will just keep attacking everyone on every big clean climb for rest of race again nullifying the trains he's only one even Alberto couldn't detail an elite train. He needed mano a Mano. 2014 Vuelta. O'Connor will be constantly given slack as a non top TT and he suits all those climb heavy stages wouldn't be surprised if a tjv member is sacrificed to see O'Connor podium. Early in race Thomas, vlasov, should show well but roglic, pog, Jonas, O'Connor, a recovered Yates it's a lot of climbing better be a natural. GC my guess gets polka dots again otherwise Pinot and Guerrero could be exciting for polkadot race. 🥂 Cheers felicitations. Side note welens supposed to go to uae not benoot but a similar type role but if Swiss army knife ,big engine, rouleur , great for Flanders ambition. They pulled a Stefan kung, catanneo, bisseger even it's still not having wva, winning in general classification framework is hardest thing to do in cycling,but besides that best one day rider in cycling hands down so even all that help which is pie in sky just levels field wouldn't make team better. Not until healthy joao is used like Castro climbing domestiques and his Jonas who's 19 in ayuso bummer in timing because they will be monsters eventually with that depth could sweep podiums like ineos. 100%right about Milan I said it when people started snickering look at numbers competition wasn't there. He definitely was dropped as Jonas says it's best legs he ever had in his life and while he would have won summit finish the pretty noticeable back off I'd tadejs style to drop heart rate get back in aerobic rhythm and he's smart enough to know there was a descent to charge back on so best get lactate out of legs. If tadej goes for jersey on alpe d'huez he's ambitious historic climb be huge indicator of his comfort and confidence as he would stay in wheels unless he feels he's untouchable. Again agreed the way these guys avoid each other is annoying for VG pick lol or gambling if nothing else ☺️🏞️🏆two podiums given healthy race primoz , Jonas, tadej or tadej, Jonas , O'Connor vlasov in the mix not sure about 3 weeks but he's performing at the 4th highest all around level imo this year. Just think O'Connor rides so easy he will be final group 3rd week if not all race aside from solo victories. If tadej loses much like Alberto he's emptying chamber so if he loses to one I think it's tjv strength and tactics and both better him and if he has legs like strade, Flanders, tirreno etc I think teams will fight for 2nd maybe worst thing for tjv is a ganna,Dvb, Thomas led ineos they won't bully that horsepower and even if they help one stage that train will help pog and spare his team a lot of work especially if he has best legs. Let those two torture peloton and do your thing. Wellness would be great with tadej ,hirschi,not sure if trentin stays but kung, campanaerts, cattaneo, bisseger all game changers fir UAE imo hope to see it Dvb types to take over from bjerg as they ascend, ride, valleys, or become classics contender. Wellness wasn't getting chances at lotto as Belgian maybe victor isn't as far fetched I'd thought.✌️rambling I know your time lot stuff

Through thorough research, I have concluded he should have been worried about Vingegaard

I hope TJV does a better job at protecting Roglic this year. Last years crash where he was riding alone in the bunch was hard to watch.

Watch out for future upcoming AREFAYNE Aklilu 🤞 17 years old 9 sec behind Biniam Grimay on TT , he can sprint and climb and he is very good on TT ... I hope uci academy gives him a chance like Bini

'Rugged up' Love the lingo, I'm stealing that one buddy

Stage 8. I think even he was surprised by the time he took that day. I'm not so sure about Ventoux - maybe Pog was not willing to go so deep as Vingegu, also knowing the descent was still to come. When it mattered, on MTF stages, he was able to match or better him.

When does the preview to the tdf come on lrcp?

What gear are they running?

Total dominance in cycling's biggest race...not something many people are comfortable with. I remember the raised eyebrows when team sky and Froomey won all those TdFs but not so much as a whisper re the two Slovenians beating the world. We shall see....🤫

I am so exited to see what vingegård Can do this year with him having a Sharif captin role

I really think Roglic can take Pogacar one on one uphill sprint after a long alpine climb then on TTs keep it very very close... But adding up the time will weigh the scales in Pogs favour but Roglic team has far more aces up their sleeve.

I would love to be able to cycle through stage 11, it looks incredibly smooth and beautiful (I'm not a cyclist, don't ask me to go up a lot of slopes, and I'm from the Canary Islands, so I can't easily ride things like that here. I have the Teide National Park , and that's it)

I think that was a tactical retreat on Ventoux. He has shown to be a pretty good tactician. Jonas was stronger on the climb, no doubt, but seems that Tadej let the others catch him to assist on the downhill capture. Either way, there are so many excellent riders that nearly every stage will be exciting. What will Alaphilippe, MVdP and Wout do? What team will be very strong and smart and what team will go the Movistar route and leave us scratching our heads? Let us all hope that covid stays the heck out of the race.

7:35 - little do you know Sunny Jim ;-)

“Why should i be worried?” If i was Vingegaard, i would be wearing Pogacar’s arse like a hungry dog. I think he’s a good chance this year - maybe better than Roglic? The big question this year is - who’s going to come 4th?

Good discussion ✌️

I feel so much desire on behalf of Roglic

Cosmo Catalano is turning in his grave... wait he's alive!

I think the 'weakness' of Pog last year on Ventoux was a bit of gamesmanship. He probably wanted to convey to the public (which had been pushing conspiracy theories of the sort made when a cyclist is seen to be totally dominant) that he was human after all. He knew a long downhill descent was coming up. This year at two stages of Tirreno-Adriatico - especially at Carpegna - Pog was able to leave Vingegaard behind effortlessly as if Vingegaard and the rest were standing still.

7:33 That did not age well............

Someone tell me about that sign incident??? Wtf?

How does Pogacar compare to other TDF winners? We seem to have fallen into a new era coincidentally with Covid, and it’s difficult to judge the dominance of Pog.

well it turns out he should be worried

Exceptional young man

the biggest threat would be intense drug testing, just hope the other contenders don't fall the I need more drugs to win, it's not that I am against drugs, what I am against is the lack of tools to detect the lance Armstrong of the tour. the governor body should just legalize many of what they ban since they can't detect or stop, seems like they are doing a decent job of bike motors detection

pog guy seems quite good

The only chance for a competitive Tour is if the doping controllers get to work again.

yearning for the days of sky/froome

coment for algorithm

He lost the stage with disc brakes and win back to back with rim brakes. That is the logical answer.

"Why should I be worried ? " Now you know :D

2:07 better Van Aert face than the Dumo/Van Aert reaction face

CC are pretty funny. "how did Teddy Pikachu win the 2021 tour de france" Yeah how DID Pikachu win?

"Why should I be?" did not age well

It iritates me a little bit that they avoid each other. It would be more interesting when they would race more races together.

1:15 "that's how AF won the stage" LOL... yes, that's how

Wow this video aged well

I remember a time (during Amstrong era) where it was always said that if a rider goes over 6 watts/kilo for a period of time over 15 minutes, he was most definitely doped... I assume those numbers have changed now, since we keep seeing guys like that go over the "limit" again and again. What has changed, in the past 20 years? (please dont tell me, its physiologic cuz that bs)

Nice prediction.

what interview was that Pog quote from "why should i be worried"

@7:30 I guess we have the answer to that now!

PogaCAR has the engine but he needs "Dr Lamborghini's" Fuel Injection!

Nice!

Why does UAE use the UCI code UAD?

I really hope it won't be a repeat of last year, weeks 2 and 3 were so boring. Even worse than last year's bernal at the giro, which was also utterly dominant

I'm calling it here. Pog is going to be dropped by Rogla and Jonas will mark him.

Can someone tell me why the UCI doesn't to team time trials in grand tours now?

The Pog looks leaner this year, not sure what that means. Could mean something, could mean nothing.

Closed captioning calls him “teddy pikachu”

Roglic should have just done it in 2020, it was his Tour 3 weeks long. Minus one day...

The big question is: is Thomas de Gent still worried about Pogacar? 🙂

Answer: Best Doping like every tour de france winner in last 40 years

Why should I be worried?

How did Pog win? HE WON WITH RIM BRAKES!