Tadej Pogacar and UAE Team Emirates Masterclass | La Fleche Wallonne 2023 

The other teams needed chaos before/on the climb for them to have had any chance at beating Pog. As soon as he entered at the front it was a foregone conclusion.

🔀Would’ve been fun to see how it would’ve played out if Bardet’s first attempt hadn’t ended with an uphill brake check. Not Mike Woods’ fault at all, just would’ve been more interesting.

It will be interesting to see what effect all these classics have on his TdF performance. Relatively unprecedented (I think) for such a dominant GC rider in the current era to also dominate all these classics. UAE look a better a team this year too

Amazing by Skjelmose!

Like every year, I tuned into Fleche Wallone with 150m to go.

The best cycling race analyst.. Hands down.. No knuckheads drama 😅

This race was about second position, and Skjelmose won

Pog's shoulders when he goes have to one of the great movements in sport at the moment. Like watching Bolt ease up and smile at the line.

A nice winner for the records of this race ! Everyboddy who knows sommething about cycling knew pogacar was the man to beat ! He is just a worldclass rider ! And he even have lots of time to make progress. Maybe remco commes the most close to pogacar, he is also a worldclass rider . Vingegaard won the tour because the backup he had from his whole team. Pogacar have learned from the tour of 2022. He will not make the same mistakes annymore ;-) .

It is wild how quickly Pog creates the gap on those steep ramps when he decides to go…

Damn im sad Skjeldmose didn't win this. maybe next year, if Pog dont ride it xD

Power and endurance, superhuman.

Up until the last 200-300 meters when everyone is out of saddle, Pogacar is upfront seated. Then when he kicks, no one can answer. Vollering was exactly the same.

Pog seems impervious to crashes. Seriously when was the last time he crashed, during that descent with Jonas in TdF last year?

Tadej Pogacar the number one 💪

Seeing 17% on the screen is nuts! I did some hill repeats today ~10% at the steepest, and I was getting worn down quickly and painfully.

Skjelmose will be interesting to follow in the years to come

Well done for Pog to win when it was impossible for him to do so. Good call Pat.

Thanks so much for all your coverage. Love your channel and videos!

Damn didn’t know Pog was so close to crashing

Bardet got really unlucky Lafay is on fire lately Pogacar is the greatest cyclist this world has ever seen

man this dude is incredible to watch

Great Content as always! LR really got me into watching cycling. As a Non-english native I struggle with some of the words you use in the podcast sometimes. So as a public service,would you mind explaining the following phrases: -flase flat -fake news climb -echelons -"shas patat"😅 (I can tell what it means from context but how is it spelled?) Thank you Patrick and Benji!Keep up the great work!

That's Pogi Power!

Excellent. Can’t wait till Sunday.

I felt Mas would be more competitive than Landa, considering he beat Pog at Giro dell'Emilia last year and matched him almost till the finish of Il Lombardia as well as a couple of the uphill finishes at Vuelta Andalucia.

Sooooooo.... what was that you told Benji in the Amstel Gold podcast about Pog in this race? "Starts or doesn't. Same outcome?" He defied expectations again! (And I'm not even a Pog fanboy.)

Skjelmose need to learn position, still Great second! After King Podacar. Really hope Evenepoel has something To being a challenge for Tadej😜🔝❤️

Pog is the man💯💯💯 Such a great rider too watch 💥💥💥

Good to see a vid

Is it just me who are suspecious. Some riders winning everything and winning in style like in the old doping days. In Roubaix they were almost an hour faster than before. I think its crazy.

Didn't you say that he would not win?

pogacar looking untouchable the closer we get to the grand tours, almost perfect start to the 1st half of the season, not many i can say or see who could challenge him consistently at the moment, unless they are holding back for the tours, but i'm an ex pro elite & you have to test the waters as it were in order to gauge your own form against the stronger riders,

🔥Spin to win!🏁🏆💪

"Can anyone beat this man?" That says it all.

Reeeeeeeemco off the mountain

20% gradient and Pogi is in the saddle and SPINNING. would love to know what gears he was riding

Beautiful change in strategy. Everyone expecting Pog to go long so pushing their numbers and trying to stay right in front to defend. They burn matches while Pogacar cools his heels back at wheel 20 to 50. TDF is going to have much more closely matched teams this year. Without Roglic, it's going to be tough for Jonas.

And now the big question: who will take second place tomorrow in Liege? 😂No in all fairness, should be a great battle between Remco and Tadej. Two of the absolute biggest names in cycling today, one of the only few races they are racing head to head this season. Going to watch all day.

Shout out to Rorger Adria, monster performance!!

Terbaik lah Poggy

Those EF Easypost Lab71 SuperSix's are soooooo good looking. 3:02 #Dreambike

Skjelmose still only 22, very exciting rider 🔥🔥🔥

I heard "thankfully he crashed in Amstel Gold Race too" and I was trying to figure out the sarcasm lol.

Scary Pog

Everyone stand up on the bike, except Pog 😳

shot of the day was PL glowering at the side of the road doing his best Darth Vader

Pogacar is tired, now in April. Does he fade last 6 days of tour?

Does pog run shorter pedal cranks??? Looks like he's turning on a smaller radius... Hmmmmmmm

Ah man, really sad about Pidcock's form. I know he had a big/notable set back with the concussion but really hoped he'd smash this.

Pogs got some great juice in those bottles

3:01 Jimmy Jansen (alpecin) broke his collarbone and some ribs in that crash.

Bicycle

is Powless running speedplay pedals? 2:59

World tour teams please have a plan and try something on LBL.

Pogacar with a full team looks good at evens for tour de france? Been doing double bets with him non stop for months. As long as his team and him stays fit and he doesn't have significant crash can't see him not winning tour. Last year no team second week and a misguided solo push on a super hot day lead to him blowing up... Don't see that happening again unless he is pushed to his limit on the wheel of vingegaard.. Thoughts??

Worry that Pogacar has hit the classics so hard this season so that if he doesn’t win the Tour again he has a cushion to say the year was still a success. Obv this is a generational year, but while he’s doing “short climbs” Jonas has a 2mth advantage on pure Tour prep

People are saying Pogacar is the new Eddy Merckx, is that a fair assessment?

It looked way too easy, everyone knew Pogs was coming for the W

👏✨

no amstel gold?

uae have really set blueprint if you can put together team capable these all around gc generation remco roglic, jonas, powless, mas, higuita, the reason they win GT no mystery they are delivered to climb at pace and are able to hold high speed until everyone else drops or they push on. While guys like valverde, kreuziger , gilbert even at worlds was delivered to botto but UAE are doing sprint style leadouts Flanders great example knowing if speed is flying nobody has endurance and climbing ability of tadej to maintain and others drop same with amstel again big diffrence has been how solid his team have been executing the bjerg and oliveira leadout where tadej blew apart flanders will be blueprint for guys like powless, jorghenson maybe who arent fro slow speed able to power up like with kick of wout or VDP but could hold a high speed for longer on climb. If JV were to do same net year either Jonas or especially Primoz could easily win. They have to keep powder dry like tadej though he does make it all look so easy. Just observation with this generation

Pog gonna win Sunday also.

Crazy how the others were all out of the saddle whilst Pog was just sitting there and did it so easily in the end. No contest. But yes, UAE did a great job controlling the race to make the result inevitable.

easier to follow a serial victor like Tadej. a pause from arrogant riders of recent past.

The commentary of these videos is so hard to understand. All words are glued together

come on mate u said this race last year that pog is the most overrated rider. apology time i guess

Pog on the juice?

Tiesj in a better position, Romains attack not getting blocked... could have been something. Was still a nice race, enjoyed riding while watching. Wish the commentators would take the opportunity to talk more about some smaller teams and riders... was some repetition in the talking points.

[Mur de Huy] Subtitles: Murder Weed

weak field today and nobody seems to have the guts to attack UAE today we got pro riders in 2nd and 3rd place in today's race who are basically admitting in post-race interview that they were not going for a 1st place!!!

Theirs an entry fee on the day to walk up that hill for spectators ..

on sunday.... no pogi no remco will win😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Could you please not spoil the result in the thumbnail and title? Even if I deliberately don't click on your video until I've watched it, these things can potentially reveal the result when RU-vid randomly shows your video to me.

Pogacar is tiny Yet there’s a lankiness to his body

Poga rides the other stallions

He is the headache of anyone..

What is a murder-we?

Merci.les substances toxiques.....

Cant wait to see Pog make that little man named remco cry and whine again lmao.

This is why I don't like cycling right now, Tadej is undoubtedly the best rider right now. Just destroying with pure power. He was sitting while most of the field was emptying their tanks.

Time to study top tier riders while having no team to even remotely apply this

Pogacar is juiced. The whole team is suspect.

One worst the worst line up in Ardennes Classics this time . Not a great era in matter of show, one dude who win everything even Cobbles Classics it's pretty suspicious. I had this feeling with UAE or Bahrain since have been founded that at one point they will " create" monsters.

what is this commentary about? I mean, speaking about the silence of the race. No sound of the race. So this is nonsense.

Pogacar sold his soul to Satan

Ne pas opéré cela ce soigne

Pidcock again showing why he is the most over-rated rider in pro cycling

V good highlights done here Why not learn how to pronounce pogacars name? Then you shorten his name and call him pog and mispronounce that too. Why not say correctly?

Pauvre cyclisme Oust le nouveau amstrong

is Pog the GOAT cheat?

Every year the same boring story: Huge peleton together at the bottom of the final climb at Huy, then sprint for the last 100 meters. Totally boring like at the Tour de France.