Is Tadej Pogacar on his way to becoming the Greatest of All-Time? | Beyond the Podium

Is Tadej Pogacar on his way to becoming the Greatest of All-Time? | Beyond the Podium | NBC Sports

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Ай бұрын

Brent Bookwalter and Tejay Van Garderen recap all things Paris-Roubaix, Tadej Pogacar molding into one of the all-time greats and look ahead to the Amstel Gold Race. #NBCSports #cycling
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Is Tadej Pogacar on his way to becoming the Greatest of All-Time? | Beyond the Podium | NBC Sports
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@sohi2rydes Ай бұрын

The amazing thing is even when Tadej is putting out huge power, he has ease and sometimes smile on his face. He is changing the perception of pro racing. He is also super friendly with his key rivals. Love this attitude. "Enjoy and rip the race apart while doing it".

@ShawnStradamus520 Ай бұрын

“No gifts.” - Badger Bernard Hinault recently hosted Johan Bruyneel for The Move podcast, and Hinault talked about how he was driven by the love of smashing his rivals in bike races for fun. He sees this also in Tadej Pogacar, the boy king who enjoys world tour bicycle racing as some kind of video game. It’s fun for him! That’s the stuff that flows through the greatest champions…

@justinbergmans36 Ай бұрын

Everyone was talking about how exciting the tour was going to be with the four major talents racing. But, we all know how one accident can change that . The degree of seriousness of vingegaard’s injury makes it doubtful he’ll win a third.

@brentt1455 Ай бұрын

For of the love of humanity many of the American commentators need to take some lessons on how to say the euro riders names properly FRIK

@ortizma13 Ай бұрын

It makes me cringe every time I hear them pronounce Tadej’s name. Great commentary and then they say his name and it’s like getting static across a radio station or nails on a chalkboard

@billirlbeck1597 Ай бұрын

Love❤️❤️❤️❤️ Tadje

@yung_oma Ай бұрын

At least try to pronounce Pogis name correctly, please?! Po-ga-car. It‘s not that hard.

@GuineasFog Ай бұрын

I think when Hinault and Merckx have both said they see elements of themselves in him and he's the real deal, then he certainly has a shot. A long way to go and of course and Vingegaard is nailing the TDF (let's hope his injury doesn't destroy him) but Pogačar is already on 2 and winning different types of Monuments and Classics etc. He could certainly get close, assuming he has another 7 or 8 good years left in him. He'd need to start doing more than one Grand Tour a year though, because otherwise he won't get close. Merckx is on 11 and Hinault on 10.

@BenjaminUbayyed-po9tc Ай бұрын

my problem with Phil and to some degree Bob is that they don't talk tactics and really break the race down the way that Max/GCN/Eurosprt commentators do.

@BenjaminUbayyed-po9tc Ай бұрын

and i think teejay is right about tadej not going for everything. breaks should be let up the road when the gc isn't up for play. its more interesting too

@branislavtrninic4505 Ай бұрын

That is a great idea! Have a few motorbikes few km ahead to give warning on road condition and potential hazards

@stephencurry8552 Ай бұрын

I adore Tadje. Fact remains, no one will ever be better than Eddie.

@sveng5319 Ай бұрын

Facts also state that Eddy failed doping tests. Pogi never failed one despite more testing for more substances with better testing methods. Pogi is for me already better than Eddy.

@aleksanderxhemo Ай бұрын

@sveng5319 if one dopes, the rest of them doped as well, so, level playing field. Eddie is and will always be the "cannibal"

@ng6096 Ай бұрын

@@sveng5319 exactly this! MVDP also other level and van Aert also do good things but still a little bit behind this 2

@bubbaslaughter6030 Ай бұрын

I’m older like TJ and romanticize about the old days, the peloton patrons dictating who goes in the break, how long the procession lasts before the races begin and if the break stays away to the finish. Times change and we are in a new era of cycling where careers are shorter and it’s dog eat dog, time to adapt or move on to something else cause I guarantee you that old days are over, and whinging about the good old days ain’t bringing them back.

@billirlbeck1597 Ай бұрын

Awesomesauce

@stanroberts229 Ай бұрын

I understand what you are saying about Pogacar. He does need to improve tactically, and yes using other teams to his own advantage. Sometimes using other teams is part of it. Saving your team is another.

@veganpotterthevegan Ай бұрын

He was about to have an incredible team with Almeida, Ayuso and Vine(although that's not happening now) on top of having Yates, along with Wout initially not planning to do the TdF at all for Jonas. I still think he'll have a much better team than Roglic and should be the clear TdF favorite with Jonas' very unfortunate accident

@n.heroep2786 Ай бұрын

It's easy to think Tadej is greedy if you aren't on his team. But if Total Energy or something keeps winning, I think they won't be complaining either. Cycling is changing. So things of traditional doesn't happen anymore. I enjoy watching the race won because they win it with their leg not because ooh, everyone is going to hate it because we won a lot. It's a similar comment when MVP won the cyclocross all the time. People said that maybe MVP should give the other rider to win.🙄. Besides, cycling isn't forever. The way I see it, he is just enjoying his time, while he can win. Because crash/injury or whatever can end their career at any time. Just see Bernal who is slowly going back. But he has lost 3 years in his career to climb back up.

@brentsoderbergcycling Ай бұрын

I agree with Tejay. Tadej should tactically use some other teams own interests against them and save his team a little, but maybe he is just trying to maximize training in these shorter stages.

@worldcitizen9202 Ай бұрын

We all know you were watching on tiz cycling Tejay 🤣🤣

@MrMurl Ай бұрын

It would probably be worth mentioning to guests that any Bluetooth headphones no matter how expensive will provide much worse sound quality than the microphone of almost all $10 wired ear buds.

@lorenzomartinez8543 Ай бұрын

If he keeps having a balanced breakfast he can definitely keep this up for years

@rafalpruszynski1707 Ай бұрын

Did Tejay make more threats against Pogacar? Imagine being an ex pro, a DS and still not being able to pronounce the name of the #1 rider in the world.

@getriteb4ugetlft Ай бұрын

I re bear a young girl skier winning at 18. Now she is the GOAT! Go Mikaela!

@jokemmerling4875 Ай бұрын

There already is a greatest of all times: Eddy Merckx!

@kenblakeley9940 Ай бұрын

Wasn't it MVDP grandfather?

@ACMEpowersports Ай бұрын

Whatever it takes to get a click right? Silly title.

@bentrodoutdoors7953 Ай бұрын

Lance is the 7x greatest of all time. Don’t @ me

@ng6096 Ай бұрын

If you like unfair sportmanship he is

@ng6096 Ай бұрын

Everybody says merckx is the best, i understand that but dont forget that it is much more competetive now then back in the days + maybe Merckx found something to use what the others didnt. Cycling is much more fair now and the gaps are closer. Merckx is the benchmark someone has to be the benchmark but in my opinion what MVDP and Tadej are doing is on the same or a higher level then Merckx. Sorry Belgische vrienden!

@EdwardBrooks-rs2ur Ай бұрын

This is painful to watch 😅

@swissbiggy 26 күн бұрын

Simple answer on the titel... NO he isn''t about to become the greatest ever. He does have three world titels, twelve more Grand Tours , ten more monuments and about 500 more victories to score before he can claim that title.... Merckx and others are still lightyears ahead.... And yes those guys did maybe dope, but that's what the current kids also do... Or does nobody ever ask questions why the CEO of UAE is one of the most doped riders ever in the peloton ? Mauro Gianetti used EPO himself, and then became DS at Saunier Duval, and we all remember how that did go.... Cobo Acebo, Piepoli and Ricardo Rico are just three examples of the great rders he produced.... Wonder, wonder how does it come that Pogacar does win so much ?? Same story for MVDP of course, who makes no secret of it to be huge friends with the entire Cecchini family.. The dumb kid is even posting photos on his socials together with the son and grandkids of the famous doping Dr. Cecchine... Not by cocincidence Dr. Cecchini has a very nice signed World Championship jersey of MVDP hanging in his office in Luca.... (Yes, that same Luca where Mathieu always goes to train on the MTB.) Thus no I do not have the illusion that any of the big names does not dope... Which brings us back to the statement in the title.... And my answer on that is just a simple no... Not now and not in the future, he doesn't race enough races for that...

@MCHRQRD Ай бұрын

TD that's old school while roid oldies were trying to beat the youth. Now that youth are arising every year, don't wait to win. Win every race, every time you can, because youth are arising far faster than the days of roids.

@crishubby2922 Ай бұрын

Gotta beat Jonas

@stephencurry8552 Ай бұрын

In what... the tour? I am sorry, whose team was better last year? In a straight fight jonas comes a cropper.

@veganpotterthevegan Ай бұрын

@stephencurry8552 Jonas definitely had the better team last year. Although he was so good that he would have won with a very average team. The year before is a totally different story though. And we have no idea how big of a factor Tadej's broken wrist had on the TdF