He Was Better Than Pogacar 4 Yrs Ago. What Happened?

Marc Hirschi was priceless in 2020. He was more highly rated than Tadej Pogacar himself for classics and one-day races and his price was above that of Remco Evenepoel or Jonas Vingegaard. However, 4 years later he only wins on stages far from WorldTour cycling and was even accused of doping by his former team, what has happened to Marc Hirschi?

[@cyclinghighlights]

Obviously, we mean that Hirschi was better than Pogacar in 2020 in one-day classics, where Pogi still had no monuments or medals in world championships, and Hirschi had already won a Fleche Wallone and a bronze medal in the world championships, as well as having beaten him in the U-23 world championships.

[@kenallen4175]

How bout a video on Tom P and his back to back Olympic gold in mountain biking??

[@aarthoor]

Who cares, conspiracy theories are fun!

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@kenallen4175 u want some popcorn and a blow too? Maybe a 4d experience on Imax? Just ask. One or two sugars?

[@johnd1466]

@@kenallen4175That’s not cycling

[@kenallen4175]

@@johnd1466 boo!! Haha

[@tonycrabtree3416]

“Cycling never changes.” 😂😂 So very true! And evidently, “Cycling fans never change” “Your doper dopes harder than my doper, so obviously he’s the only doper because my doper would never dope” 😂😂

[@lookingdown8290]

Or "They were ALL Doping" Yeah, so 100% of everyone who ever had a professional contract was doping. I'll bet it's less than 99.8% :)

[@renaatmyny6685]

Always love the Rabobank and Saunier Duval namedrops. Funny as hell. Nice videos 😂

[@pmcmpc]

Note DSM didn't terminate him because he was doped. They terminated him because he wasn't open with them and did his own thing - so they couldn't trust him not to piss hot and cause a scandal.

[@cyclinghighlights]

And what do you think that means? It's pretty obvious. They won't be said "hey guys here is a doper" That only said whenever they were caught

[@cyclinghighlights]

Also, he was earning a low salary and was the star of the team, obviously they won't end a contract just for the guy is a little weird and make his own things.

[@mattpotter8725]

@@cyclinghighlights Absence of evidence doesn't necessarily mean evidence of wrongdoing. I just don't believe that after all the doping scandals prior to his career he could get away with not giving samples that would prove your theory. Sure you can make a conspiracy theory out of clickbaity titles, hell I'm watching this, but having watched a few videos that basically claim everybody is doping from Pog to anyone Danish to Froome and anyone in between but apart from this one suspicious and association with certain doctors or who just shouldn't be allowed near any professional sportsperson ever again on a professional basis I need more than this. I think Hirshe just isn't reliable, money could and should be spent elsewhere. From his point of view who knows what is going on but he's just not seen as good enough to support a Grand Tour winner anymore.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Well, Froome was investigated by USADA, Nick Harris is connecting him with some strange ppl and he was positive for salbutamol. That's creepy.

[@mattpotter8725]

@@cyclinghighlights There are a lot of cyclists who have been investigated and even ones that have been found guilty, mostly at lower levels of the sort, that seem to have found their way up to higher levels. I'm sure that some doping is going on, but at the levels you suggest and without evidence? I don't see the evidence, though you don't seem to be here for that, just to point out conspiracies. As for Froome, from what I remember he was using something that I think both of us would consider performance enhancing, but it was for an asthmatic condition, which baffles me as to if that was the case why is he even allowed or able to be a pro cyclist, but it wasn't against the rules. I recently listened to a podcast with former pro cyclist Alex Dorset on it where he described the testing regime, and for Pog they came on the day they'd given at 8am, but returned for a further test later that same day, so testing is much stricter and much harder to evade than when the doping scandals were prevalent. Now does this mean doping is going on or that it's not possible to get around being tested positive, sure, the dopers will always try and create drugs that don't get, or are very difficult to detect, but your stance is that everyone is under suspicion without offering and concrete evidence. Technological improvements in training and especially recovery have occurred as the sport I think has had massive investment at the top teams. Should riders be under suspicion all the time, yes, but they should be presumed innocent until found guilty or what is the point of even having any cycling events? You don't seem to be offering any solutions here, apart from maybe banning certain doctors and back room staff that were involved in previous incidents at lower levels of the sport. Maybe these people should be banned but in the end there will always be people to replace them so you need to fix the testing regime and make the tests more advanced and not just ban people (until they've been found guilty).

[@trentvlak]

I was wondering what happened to Hirschi. He used to be a mainstay at the TdF.

[@user-xh7rz6sh7t]

Same here.

[@bowwowrapha7790]

He oviously ain't the GOAT. Never herd of him!!

[@isitrachelorj3953]

Thankyou for shedding a little light on one of the most suspicious racers in today's peloton. He couldn't pedal a bicycle the for 3 years then suddenly remembers how to spin the cranks late last year/early this year. He just forgot how, I guess.

[@MrBradfordchild]

He was great to watch on the descents in the high mountains!

[@patrickwong4824]

Hirschi if he wins this Saturday or even podium, still has to survive that IOC dope test. Can’t hide from prying eyes on this one.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Probably Luigi saves him. Or a TUE, Who knows. The most probably scenario is Hirschi dropped at 90 km and nothing happens. The main thing is Worlds.

[@scottprice5198]

Nope, beyond that it is all about the corruption and turning a blind eye as to the nation, sponsors and "perfect fit" of the deceiver athlete

[@65Lynchy]

As...if

[@matttilley8620]

I'm off for a ride on my 10-speed Supercycle bike I bought in the 90's and don't have time to watch this video in its entirety. Question: (fingers crossed) Did I win the Van Rysel?

[@cyclinghighlights]

Didn't make the giveaway yet

[@goldenretriever6261]

Canadian Tire bike?

[@matttilley8620]

@@goldenretriever6261 Yes!

[@Mafacracer]

Another banger keep them coming!

[@oscarbarquincaloca5762]

The question is why has not Pogacar raced de olimpics, if he is in the shape of his life ? He had the gold in ITT for sure and maybe also in route. Oh, wait ...🤔

[@cyclinghighlights]

We made a video about that

[@jaysparc]

Always a Dane....

[@thomasmeier-muller2442]

Your videos are getting more and more confusing, sometimes it feels like you’re just trying to fit in as many names as possible 😅

[@cyclinghighlights]

Obviously you have to get the context of the Last 30 yrs in mind, always

[@raskolnikov1242]

Cycling Highlights was better 2 Yrs Ago. What Happened?

[@cyclinghighlights]

Better in what, long recaps from old races? Ask to the fkn Amaury Sports

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@cyclinghighlights When u were about info! and not numbers or hollywood shit. Not to say selling self-dissolving Van RRRRRysel. U can do it. Come on, get a grip again...

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@cyclinghighlights I have better 4 u... I live 10km from Aigle and I was among the very first to attend UCI QG and ride on their track as a ado licensed. => Many of my friends work there today and are in politics. They meet almost everyday Lappartient and I despise them although they don't even now what they're doing... Next argue please.

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@cyclinghighlights U and me are not much different. Just do again your job correctly. The channel is ok. Its direction stinks. U can answer with your humour or your resilience whatever u want. U and me know I'm right. SOPHIST! Love ya.

[@cyclinghighlights]

As i said before, all info you could have about UCI guys, your experiencies with dopers, all you can inform us it's good and welcome.

[@MarkKanaster-ev6pq]

United Alien Enabler

[@savagepro9060]

2:18 riders who dope together, fuse heads together!

[@yafetasegid6488]

his problem was joining uae since the teams performance coordinator was the soon exposed inigo san milan who used to coach pogacar. the same happened to ayuso who was the best teenage before joining the team. now if javier sola takes over as the teams performance coordinator in 2025 i dont think any other team wins a race in the calendar.

[@leedsunited007]

All get a slap except Pogi. Teflon Tade

[@TheJuvek1]

Well in other sports is many examples of players being on of the top players or prospects at age 20 only to be nowhere a few years later.....is not only because of doping. It is many reasons this happen of course doping could be one of them.

[@plutopedro1]

How about the french sweep in MTB ? please tell more ..PFP&VK, how is it the home team always kicks ass for olympics, this feels like Barcelona all over again..

[@tamasvarga67]

PFP is one of the best female cyclist in the world and after Rio, her main focus was Paris. Please tell me what is so suspicious about her win I’m listening.

[@S9999Frank]

a 5 time world champion wins the olympics, does not get less suspicious than that, unless you see the WC wins as suspicious to begin with.

[@jochem1986]

You're not looking for fire when you see smoke, you look for fire when you see dry grass. You see the bad in people first. A proud pessimist.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Of course, pro sports it's the way to be optimistc. Specially if you lives from it.

[@jochem1986]

@@cyclinghighlights I'm looking forward to your thoughts on where the line is between pushing the limits of sports science, nutrition and medicine (of course), and what you consider "unclean" performances, or unfair advantages. If you give us examples of what you consider crossing the line, and the rider that was proven to have done so, you'll get a lot more of us behind you than with "speculation until proven truthful". Perhaps a new video idea?

[@TheNewOriginals450]

8:57 Lol, I almost missed that Cacellara pic, so *that's* how he won 😮!

[@paddywadge3405]

Wait. I thought Derek Gee was the hilarious one. Now you tell me Hirschi is hilarious too. Where does the hilarity end?

[@cyclinghighlights]

No, Derek Gee is from 2 or 3 days ago, the goose. As said one of you, my dear audience

[@paddywadge3405]

@@cyclinghighlightshaha. That was, in fact, me. I recommend “the Canadian Goose” or “that silly goose”. Love the channel!

[@raskolnikov1242]

I know your technic since a while... Confirmation biases from a random starting point. For instance: Hrschi is swiss, ok. Andy Rhys, Gino, tambien...lol. What the hell do they have in common? U could have added Koblet, Kübler or Toblerone lol. Clown. That's called pil-poul, sophism or FOUTAGE DE GUEULE COMPLET. Do what u do best. We're watching you. Don't do the youtube numbers. Rather keep on doing quality please. P.S.: Marc has been sick and many health problems. Not to say he went on the wrong team. He's not a batshit bully like Juan.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Obviously, in World cycling ppl are related for things in common As i said in the video "strange injuries before the key moments of the season" I didn't add Koblet, Rominger or Tag Hauer because they havn't nothing to be with this story. Andy Rihs yes.

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@cyclinghighlights Ok... Rolex, Zermatt... Cycling is a game. My grandma had a phonak apparel. She could hear! For that Andy Rhys is better than you think... Emmm sorry! CHOCOLATE! CHAPUISAT lol.

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@cyclinghighlights Show me the relation between Rhys and Marc. U have 4 hours. Grab a pen....

[@cyclinghighlights]

¿? He was in BMC what more do you want? LoL

[@65Lynchy]

Never... ending

[@faustocoppi4072]

Speaking of Đurasek 4:57, do you know if he knows the insider Mou?

[@cyclinghighlights]

Probably. Mou was in UAE since 4 or 5 yrs i guess so..

[@muradtalukdar4401]

Altid en dansker? Is that how the Danish would say it?

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

The Swiss, always the Swiss, Zulle, Beat Zberg, Oscar Camerzin, Cancellara, so many to name 😅😅😅😅 Triathlon, our favorite doper Nicola Spirig, her colleague and doper 2000 Olympic champion Brigette McMahon (yeah go figure) what is their not to love about the self righteous Swiss.

[@cyclinghighlights]

Tony, Drácula Giannetti, Camezind...

[@tak_mau7824]

Same same with any other country... Spain, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, and there is always a Dane 😂

[@orbifold4387]

He's back 😅

[@cyclinghighlights]

Told ya Wait for WC

[@mattfearuk]

Hirschi has had a fairly serious long term hip injury that has required surgery, id imagine it’s more likely that m8.

[@cyclinghighlights]

As i said, strange injuries before the key moments..

[@raskolnikov1242]

Innsbruck 2018 U23 => best championships since a decade or so (from youngs and elites): Hirschi wins with a strato attack on the descent... Pogi comes 7th.

[@marekcernansky8811]

As @CyclingHighlights points out Pogi whom all his fans keep claiming how "he was in younger age always outstanding from his generation. Unlike Froomie"... Making me laugh forever.

[@raskolnikov1242]

@@marekcernansky8811 I watched all his junior and amateurs races... at least what's at disposal on the web. Was not an arrow but his progression makes sense. I have no problems with him. But he (apart the last year) was not as good as they say... U can see him clearly struggling to keep the wheels in a small group. But probably he evolved as a grown man later. I raced with the most doped era with the Zalf and Zoccorinese. Ansa is a consultant at UAE today lol. It's a joke. That is clearly a bad point lol. But what I mean ... is that I know how it is and I was with them. At the Val d'Aosta they were going up mouth closed and I was a fuckin good grimpeur who spat blood at the top of the mountains with those cucks. Even doing glucose flebos in the rooms, they were! I know cause I'm italian and they let me in and told me everything. Don't have nothing against doping... unless you don't do it when you're young and only do it when you're a pro. The coherence and the progression curve are everything. We tolerate a bit but don't mess with us too much! It's all what I have to say. COHERENCE! Glucose was only the entrance for bigger shit. What they did, but at home.

[@cyclinghighlights]

The coherence progression of Pogi in HC climbs 2020 : 6,2 w/kg 2024 : 7 w/kg 2028 : to the moon! It's all the coherence. Dude, talk us about your Zalf doping era, could be more interesting that attacking us, use our email for that, we're interested

[@goldenretriever6261]

How does this guy know all this?

[@jochem1986]

He doesn't.

[@cyclinghighlights]

At least we have @jochem1986 here Who could teach us a lot and we could improve our content

[@jochem1986]

@@cyclinghighlights I mean you're great at connecting dots. Regardless whether they should be connected or not.

[@savagepro9060]

2:07 Woooah! WTF! In the presence of the police?

[@StopTheRot]

A slight flaw in the argument: UAE are happy to keep Hirschi in minor races because of doping. Yet, at the same time, Pog - who you think is alien-freaky - is riding all of the big ones. You have to keep your logic consistent.

[@cyclinghighlights]

No, no. You didn't understand. Saunier are not happy to keep Hirschi, they won't renew his contract. They didn't want him. Only took him in minor races as they said "c'mon Marc, do your thing and leave the big ones alone", obviously they have to do something with him. But never more in grand tours.

[@djoooop]

Yeah well, cyclists tend to 'peak' when their contract is up for renewal. Surely Marc's worth 1 mln a year, especially when UAEs paying.

[@tonyg3091]

4 years ago Pog won his first TdF, careful with that “Better than Pogacar” nonsense

[@cyclinghighlights]

Dude, watch the pinned comment

[@urskunz2537]

I've never seen such ridiculous arguments against any random cyclist

[@cyclinghighlights]

Arguments against what?

[@Beethechange1]

👍🏿✊🏿

[@lesbois53]

It is all getting SO boring now! Change the record ffs!

[@Chunky246]

always a dane.... 😆

[@Kawaiiraiden]

I'm very hungry, sad and i'm done. I live in france and idoubt about any frenchman in olympics, this is non sense..But of course french people are very happy, they think everybody is on drugs but not the frenchs... How someone like marchand (when i see his face i already see pharmacys and doctors all over the place (pogacar and vingegaard are nothing against this dude) in swimming competition after 2 hard courses yesterday and two today win again tonight both courses (with the supersonic last 50m showing he's never tired) and in one hour he will win another gold medal monstruosity after monstruosity he's never tired ? marchand and all the french olympic team in almost every sport are on drugs and nobody's care... This is again non sense... What people want, ? That the french team finish with the most golds medals in this game with only 68 millions of people ? Worse olympic game for me, absolute nightmare i'm done with the sport to see nobody's care about the french doping...

[@cyclinghighlights]

Tomorrow we'll talk about Prevot

[@Kawaiiraiden]

@@cyclinghighlights She win the cross country with 90 seconds over the second place. it was way too easy, it was like a pro against amateur or junior.. And she want to take a break from that discipline to win the tour de france "femme" next year. Another strange strange strange specimen this woman...

[@Kawaiiraiden]

She win by more than 3 minuts it's even worse and all that with smile the last part of the course... of course

[@Niala8419]

🔔

[@Allonmor]

Tom Dumoulin should be Dr Brownpants

[@raskolnikov1242]

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[@lesbois53]

Cycling Highlights cinical? Not effing much!

[@lookingdown8290]

I watch these just hoping you will call out the doped up liar and hipster!