Pogačar Does The Greatest Performance Of The 21st Century | Tour de France 2024 Stage 14 

I don’t want to miss any Tour de France action so I do 7.02 watts/kg for 30 seconds when I sprint from the basement man cave to the first floor refrigerator for snacks and drinks. Then I go full gas on the descent trying to hit the apex of the corner at the bottom of the stairs back toward the chesterfield in the man cave where my 52 inch flat screen is turned to the Tour.

To win the race in classic Vingegaard fashion, namely by wearing down Pogacar, requires a team that is able to put hard pressure on Pogacar before last climp, instead Visma left the Tourmalet, to UAE big man Nils Politt !! Team strength and Kuss are missed..

Thanks for the content and insight. I note that TP performed very well in the first week, incl. on the 2200m Galiber... and he did a lot of training at Isola 2000...

I think we forget the situation this time is way different. When visma had wout,kuss, primoz and jonas it made tadej react to way more attacks than he is now. I really don’t think jonas has the team around him this year to help him beat tadej. Also having wout not at 100 and not staying on the bike is rough. Normally he’d take that superdomestic role to help vingergaard go on attacks on those big climbs but this year they’ve been cold so far

Insane performance that blew away the field, right up there with Jonas's time trial performance last year! Visma's domestiques should have emptied the tank right before the steep part of the final climb, setting up a Jonas attack, but perhaps Jonas just doesn't have the legs this year after the crash recovery.

The biggest surprise for me is that Jonas was second today and second in GC. That if you have any understanding of a punctered long injury and recovery it needs. If Tadej does not win the tour this year with this UAE team vs this Visma team then either did they did something strategically very wrong or Jonas is superhuman

These guys arent human. Tadej is an alien. So thats like, mid 400s for watts assuming the 60kg? What. The. F$&k. 😮

How this performance at the giro and now doesn’t scream as loud as possible “juiced up” I guess it is beyond me!😮😮😮

Today Pogi GOTCHA!! 🤙🤙🇸🇮💛🇫🇷

W/Kg article with more details and stats: lanternerouge.com/2024/07/13/pogacar-possibly-does-the-greatest-performance-of-the-21st-century-tour-de-france-2024-stage-14/

Tour. is. over. Pogacar is so good now it's crazy

hi, new to cycling, just wondering if eW/kg is the same as W/kg? also, if riders don’t post their power on strava how are you calculating it? cheers

Why not adjust based on estimated weight. Jonas is for sure lighter than everyone else.

Uh, I don't think so.....Lance's "no gifts" climb will never be outdone......love Pog though!

It's not 6.85 watts per kilo, that's just silly. These numbers are exaggerated bad bad calibration and everyone is afraid to say it.🤦

Its sports what pays off is pedigree and oreoaration. Youre not a tadej fan I et it I heard you say jay vine and sjelmos were better climbers ....your words. Tadej been racing sincebefore 10 he eides uncycleshes a prodigy. Jonas is cut from cloth of lance 2.9, froome, high cadence,high knees,spinning gear tadej wins on every surface everyfinish short ofschediprijs. He an athlete on a bike hes best ive ever seen. Its a myth to "gwo into tour' its actually a way to tell who actually does endurance cycling not just pleasure efforts inscenery. Thereis a ratio aftera training block thatbbpdy needs to heal muscles than loosen and become supplebefore you get benefits. Its why people use tour to train for olympics nobody strengthens over tour its insane idea. Eveeryone fatigues on slidinig scale. Idea jonas is week 3 mastyer is delusion. There are big mountains in week3 and he likes those but lets live in reality. He can win but utwill tajke badluck, illness, crash he isnt outracing tadej . Every year there is a favorte for a reason uninterupted trainingand showing form before tour. Everyone weakens in tour its on sliding scale based on peraration and attrition. Last year tadej had injury so held strong but week 3 faded in his posture, powwer, on his face. Same happening to jonas this year its sports science not rocket sciemce no matter what you guys want to think. Heres what hapened today its longest climbs after hard dayall tour so nowheree to hide the good condition or cream rises jonas was empty and tadej had poser. Long climbs, heat, JV having massive team to have kuss with JV and usually wout up road to offer reprive is difference for jonas. Hes never climbed alone from close to foot of climb hes lie paret-peintre except paret peintre face lookslikea person jonas lookssunken and pow. Not making aciussations but obvious observatoins. You guys are surprised and thinkingnnastiest things about tadejs erformnace one guy wins everything his training for this is a hell of a lot more that tirreno and tadej had matteo and full out trying to win tour jonas as leadoutd that he launched from and tempo to top. What did you expect? Been watching for 35 years someguys like stefan schumacer eyes bulging are freajs but this is cycling when you sit on doms breaking climbing records and then acceleerate from them you will break climbing records. Tadej wins everythnig and while hes lost a few ks he hasnt had metamorphisis like lance, levi, even jonas from 2021 is insane you cant carry that leanness and do those efforts on ketones he looks like UFCfighter cutting wieght for fight before the most intense enurance effort in spotrs. Any jonas fans should be pointing the thumb not the finger if anything. I dont care either way but ive been in same crahses as jonas one on each side actually and when your body heals it doesnt stay lean you have to eat to heal. His body chemistry is absurd nevermind performance for someone supposedly shoulder injury I wont even entertain lung injury. 35 years of watching this and read of all the others be pouliidor, ocana, coppi, bartali, merkcx, gimondi, van looy, devlaemick etc. Saw hinault, fignon, hererra, lemond. Enjoy race keep observing and formnig your own opinion its best way by far Tadej was classiest rider since2019 amgen, slovenia ITT, Veulta podium with 3 stages against primoz and valverede. Nobody has ever had such a postureon a bike facthe messes around on unicycle for fun he lives on bike hes just throw bck like merckx and de vlaemick where he wants to win everything in front of all sorts of fans ratherthan peak eery year for one race thats not sport thats an exibition. Give it time you guys dont realize how lucky you are no two have ridden at this level. Bartali and coppi were teammates then it was done by country. Tadej is the complete rider reminds meof coppi hes reclusive but rides like a romantic and will retire without caring at all about recordshe will retire when its not fun. He gives his trophies to his parents for CS. Lance was a triathlete not even [ure bike rider nevernmind cliimber I grew up in 90s he finished 2 out of 5 tours he attempted thats absurd. Tadej won l'avenir at 17 in 2017 hes always been best and podiumed vuekta 2019. You really need to get these stats and accomplishments down before you embelish them for some "alien effect"

Im sorry pogi has no buisness beating almost all the doped performances, I think the only one ever who did a better result was Bjarne Riis, there is possible arguement pantani also but pogi has no buisness beating these watts. I lost faith now. People have been talking about Jonas Doping, he was still on the edge of what I could believe in. This performance of pogacar is about 5% better than his best ever and more like close to 10% on his normal level of climbing when he still goes for it. He has never all the former years shown anything close to this level. Its like a sprinter in 100 m suddenly improves with half a second like if usuain bolt suddenly did a 9,1 sprint in the the later part of his career.

how is it possible to beat the previous record set but uberdoped Armstrong by a whopping 2 mins? I don't think doping alone will enable that.

Pogacar is doped to the gills

😂 "it's all natural" and i have some ocean front property in the Sahara Desert I would love to sell anyone who actually believes that.

I highly doubt sola made any difference and the Inigo zone2 + 2x15min zone4 memes are bunk to begin with. Inigo's training probably looks comparable to Sola's, training is not the differentiator, top coaches cook with water, he probably just does a bit more tour specialized training and peaking compared to 2022/23 and nothing else. There is no magic training that elevates him from 20/21 to 22/23 to his form now in 2024. Its just natural performance progression from progressive overload, not some irrelevant coach change ...

not the greatest in history. best in the tour no doubt. There's plenty of other better climbs that have happened in the tour. I get the hyperbole though lol It was epic!