Pogačar in TROUBLE, Mohorič INJURED Before Worlds

[@jaecheokkim99]

Tadej, Remco, MVDP... can't wait this Sunday

[@visionaryfirearmsllc9999]

I would love for you to talk about the dynamic of the team members helping each other out. No one talks about the team members of the world champion and I know in the Tour de France they all obviously share the winning pot so what is the motivation for a team member to help out another team member who may win the World Championship?

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Not all riders from the same nation will help each other out. That could make for a good video but it’s always hard to prove that it was happening. 🤔🦋👊

[@toddo2006]

2013 was a great example of "teammates" not working with/for each other with Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez and Alejandro Valverde

[@feedbackzaloop]

Imagine Movistar. But the whole country

[@MDP1702]

Often it is a sense of patriotism and/or knowing that there is little chance for them them to win. Then ofcourse there is the chance if they don't follow the agreed on roles, that they won't be selected in the next few years. And if a teammate wins, that always will also be something special to you too, having played a part in it.

[@justlucky13]

Thanks Chris and Garrett!!!

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

👊🦋

[@Chiller11]

Maybe the US team can slip a couple guys in the breakaway and a Jorgenson or McNulty can surprise people. Don’t think it’s gonna happen but cycling is a funny animal. It’s great that the US got the full complement of riders at the worlds this year.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

🦋🍀👍

[@kkryspin]

At the beginning of this year, I thought Pog couldn't do it alone. But here we are, and time and time again, he's proven that he doesn’t need teammates to pull a rabbit out of the hat. It's almost like he’s the one-man band of cycling! If he’s on form, he'll be smelling roses, and who knows, maybe even a trophy-because clearly, relying on others is just too mainstream for him!

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Hard to argue with you. Pogi seems to be able to fix most problems. But the race is more interesting if Pogi doesn’t have a super team around him. 🤪🦋👊💪

[@MeesterJ]

He just has to have another team making pace and not letting gaps get too big. If it's his own team, fine. If it's another team, fine. He can attack wherever he wants

[@donquique1]

Dracula gianetti juice gives runs. He said so himself.

[@tonyg3091]

I kinda disagree. I mean Majka was of great help at the Giro and then at the Tour Politt, Wellens, Joao and Adam Yates rode their legs off to help Pog. Not saying he wouldn’t have done without them but we should give credit to the team.

[@kkryspin]

@@tonyg3091 Oh, absolutely! Let's not forget that tiny solo attack from 81K out at Strade Bianche. Just a casual ride in the park, right? And of course, that little effort from 50K out in 2022-barely worth mentioning! Sure, the TDF team was "instrumental," though, as Chris astutely noted, they had some "tactical errors." But the Giro? Oh please, who even needs a team when you're Pog? I’m sure he could’ve just started as Team Pog Solo because, let’s face it, there were totally no riders even close to his level there. Why bother with teammates when you're practically racing yourself?

[@jurajkap]

Chris - can you analyze how trade team affiliations can play a role in the road race? Poland Portugal and Spain could potentially work for Pogacar/UAE if their respective leaders fall behind? Could we see a East-West showdown with Slovenia, Poland and other eastern countries against Belgium Netherlands and other collective West?

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

That would make for great video but you cannot always prove that it’s happening all the time. 🤔🦋👊

[@milhouse53]

@jurajkap like NBA all stars game? EAST vs WEST? Sure if just for fun

[@MDP1702]

Generally this doesn't play as much influence imo, however it also depends on the situation. If you are gone with a trade teammate, you'll likely work together more than if not, even if you are on rival countries. However your trade teammates won't likely be covering attacks or closing gaps for you. So it can play a role, but in a more limited way.

[@swisstopia]

Thanks Horner boys! Can’t wait! 🦋👊🇨🇭

[@patrickwong4824]

All this means is that Pogi is going to have to work a bit harder for the rainbow jersey. If losing Mohorič is going to affect team Slovenia. How about Belgium losing Wout Van Aert?

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Wout going away is a big hit for sure. 😱🦋😬

[@MDP1702]

losing WVA is a big hit, but Belgium has a lot wider talent pool to pull riders from than Slovenia. They couldn't even create 2-3 teams that would be considered top 5-10 in the race. There really is a lot of competition for the spots. Slovenia on the other hand has to replace Mohoric with a much weaker rider that might never prove relevant in the race.

[@BMCS97]

People in the comments saying Pogacar can win all by himself and that he did it several times this year... Pog is the leader of the team that is by far the best team in the world, what are you talking about? He always had a super team around him this year, he never won alone. He is, by far, the best in the world right now but people saying he could win alone don't have a clue of how this sport works. If you think he can drop everyone on a 6% 2km climb without a team capable of forcing a hard tempo during the race and lauching him at the right time, you're wrong. If you think he can control attacks from teams like Belgium, with Remco on his wheel and then also have the strength to attack himself and drop everyone, you're wrong. He is the best bike rider in the world, he is not a super hero

[@mariusmanoiu2228]

U are delusional remember TDF 2020 he was nobody and beat Jumbo Visma all by himself

[@BMCS97]

@@mariusmanoiu2228 No sir, you don't understand this sport. You are comparing the tour, a 3 week race, to a world championship, 1 day race. In the 2020 tour he followed Roglic wheel the best he could on the road stages, because Visma didn't have nobody else to attack him, and they also controlled the race for him. Then, on the time trial, an individual effort, he in fact beat the hell out of Roglic. But the time trial is an individual effort, team doesn't matter there. Not only this, you are comparing the tour, a race full of HC 20 km above 7% climbs, with a race that has a few 2km 6% climbs. If you think that Pog can drop Remco, Van Der Poel and the best 1 day racers in the world, on a 2km 6% climb if the race isn't hard enough before, you are just wrong. If you think Pog can close down every single attack if the other countries just start to attack with everyone around him, with Remco and the other leaders on his wheel, taking advantage of his draft, and then still drop them, you are just wrong. I'm not saying he isn't the favourite or that he isn't the strongest, because he is both of them. But people that think that he can win alone, with everyone else attacking around him and with him having to close down every single gap, with other leaders on his wheel enjoying his sweet draft... They are just delusional, to use your own word

[@BMCS97]

@@mariusmanoiu2228 Just look at what happened in 2022. Visma isolated him in stage 11, attacked him with Roglic while Jonas was on his wheel and then you know what happened. Even recently Pog said himself, about that day, that you can't respond to 7/8 accelerations with people on your wheel and then still have energy to drop them. In 1 day races tactics and teams are also way more important than they are in grand tours, because there's no other day to make up for any mistake

[@TalleyrandsPuppet]

Chris, what about Alaphillipe? 3rd in Montreal. He’s looking good.

[@milhouse53]

He will be on a break away. All 2nd tier riders will jump on breaks and 1st tier team will be chasing. That's the only chance for France or Spain or USA or GB or Australia to win

[@J-cz7yv]

Excited to see what Julian bring to the race. These guys will have to animate the race to try and win 🏆. Last thing I wanna see is a sprint. Pretty sure there is no chance of that. Maybe a spring from group of 10-15 riders but that’s different and even then some of those guys would be throwing in attacks all the way to the line.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

He will need more form. But two weeks after Montreal is enough time. 🤞🦋👊

[@donquique1]

France has a good team.

[@stevesmith866]

Tadej can win this race if he was on a team of kindergarteners riding their tricycles

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

😂🦋👊

[@savagepro9060]

I don't mind. Yes, but my only request is make sure the 'kindergarteners' stay drug-free!

[@seanmccuen6970]

@@savagepro9060 derp

[@savagepro9060]

@@seanmccuen6970 (dɜːp ) noun. derogatory, slang. a foolish or ignorant person: used as a term of address.

[@clairenelson3095]

Agree with the previous comments on Jan Tratnick, a key lieutenant of Rog in his grand tour wins

[@g1985h]

Tadej may have one less helper - but - he can sit in while others take the race to him and still choose his moments to do Tadej things. I can’t imagine him not winning given his motivation to do the triple crown. It is his race to lose in most people’s eyes.

[@milhouse53]

This will mess up the unity among breakaway chasing. If a break goes up with Pedersen Alaphilipe and Jorgenson and Bilbao let's say then Holland Belgium and Slovenia must chase, but if Pog will say sorry my team is weaker now..they may not be able to control the breaks

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Pogi certainly seems to be able to fix problems often with just pure power. In Montreal the teams never worked behind Pogi and all were happy to race for second. Maybe we see more that again. 😬🦋🤔

[@mariyankolev4427]

​@@ChrisHornerCyclingis there anyone in history to win the first 2 grand tours and worlds in same year ?

[@milhouse53]

@ChrisHornerCycling the deal with races like GP Montreal is Pog still has the UAE and a full command of them. At any point he can say.."cover that", or keep that break at 30 sec for 10km making the break work like crazy, etc

[@MDP1702]

@@milhouse53 Though a team like Belgium should always have a rider in such a dangerous group, even if just to sit (like Benoot, Stuyven, Van Gils, ...)

[@musclelessfitness2045]

MVDP looks slimmer and did good this past week. He's gonna be tough to beat, even for Pogi.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

He has to get a little better still. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he improves. 🤔🦋🤞💪

[@joepapp01]

If Remco does the Double-Double...🤯🤯🤯

[@regismonkton]

Yes, it is possible.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

🔥🇧🇪🦋💪

[@LucasHynar]

Triple Double: 2x Worlds Road Race 2x ITT 2x Olympic Gold

[@joepapp01]

​@@LucasHynar that we can even discuss his possibly completing a Triple-Double across three seasons is magical.

[@atoms-to-atoms]

too far for him...never won a race with TP..but soon he will be the 3rd best rider in the world when Rogla retires..but what a race awaits.

[@regismonkton]

I think it's better for the World Championships to have the ITT events take place before the Mixed Relay TTT because I think the ITT is a more main event than the Mixed Relay TTT, and the Mixed Relay TTT is a reason why Marlene Reusser couldn't finish last year's ITT.

[@MDP1702]

Mixed relay should really be the last event in general, evenn now you have riders not participating because they are looking at the road race. If you place it on the last day (lets say 2nd monday), all top riders might be more interested to ride.

[@terrykalundula2861]

Its Game on fellaz😎, see you on Sunday

[@chrisvanbuggenum871]

I still would have preferred Tadej to go for la Vuelta.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Agreed that’s the real Tripple crown. 👑 🦋👊

[@sonckad]

Mohoric hasn't been doing well this year anyway so I don't think he would have done that well at the road race.

[@cooldude.1811]

A lot has been said about the difficulty of the Witikon climbs which suit Pog, but not so much about the descents. Tadej has clearly improved his descending capability vastly, as seen in Stages 4 and 21 of the TdF. Plus he won last year's Il Lombardia on the descent, distancing Evenepoel and Roglic.

[@MDP1702]

Last Lombardia Remco dropped on the final real climb pretty early due to his injuries from a crash earlier in the race. But Pog did a masterfull descent yes.

[@ZENmud]

I'm curious what Chris thinks about that "Team Mixed Time Trial" event created somewhere in the Media Center of UCI in Aigle, Switzerland, and run this morning? I saw a 6 minute highlight video, but have no clue when this event was created, what its regulations are, etc. 😂😂 I'm into it! I just had no clue it was "born".

[@fiddleronthebike]

imo it was a fantastic race!

[@ellen5165]

I think it started in 2019 in cycling. A lot of winter sports like cross country skiing, biathlon, and ski and snowboard cross have mixed relays. I think they are fun to watch and sometimes they give athletes that aren't the superstars of the sport a chance to shine and do well. It adds another level of camaraderie within a team as well.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Truthfully. I have not watched one of them ever. The idea of it never appealed to me. I think mostly because I believe it did more for the nation than it did for any of the riders. The rider would also have to adjusted their training preparation very close to their road race event which I cannot imagine would help their road race event any since the dates are so close to each other. 🤔🦋👍

[@regismonkton]

Pogacar might have to pay Roglic a lot of money in order for Roglic to do enough work to enable Pogacar a win.

[@mindysdad3110]

Roglic already owes Pogacar for his not competing in La Vuelta 😄

[@123tilen123]

ha-ha. Roglic gifted times and times in Tdf20. Because he wanted to another Slovenian to be on the podium. And the last stage Pogacar killed him to thanks him. That’s why he is the number 1 enemy in Slovenia and Roglic is the president in Slovenia.

[@zojazaman9272]

Si pa res pravo budalo. Nihče nikomur ni nič podaril. To je šport, ne igra v peskovniku!!​@@123tilen123

[@miguelstella2]

And you can pay him and he falls in the second lap

[@radokostanjevic5478]

@@123tilen123, haha… not true at all. Pogi has won TdF 2020 fair and square, on the road. Roglič was just stupid, nothing to do with a gifting… you should know that winning TdF is never easy, you should earn it. And Pogi has 3 of them. 🏆🏆🏆 Roglič is a president? Don’t make me laugh- he hasn’t even won a single Tour, he is a Slovenian Poulidour, always second… or falling. and Pogi is our hero, the best rider in the world for 4 years now. You can stick with a Vuelta winner, loser. 😂

[@TheRedDown]

Jan Tratnik will repet Tokyo, so no problem.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

💪🦋👊🤞

[@donquique1]

Tratnick will ride for rogla and not pogi.

[@ewanwelsh4339]

I have to disagree on your thoughts on Tom Pidcock. He hasn’t finished in the top 10 of a race over 270 k . I love watching him when he is on fire. But he just doesn’t have that depth of power yet to be in the mix at the end.

[@atoms-to-atoms]

Cant wait..thanks Chris...Tom Pitcock seemed to struggle in the MTB...he's had too long a season.

[@paulevans6403]

Mohoric has been awful ever since blowing up at Unbound Gravel. His absence is a blessing.

[@rg807]

It's Tadaj vs. Remco. They are the only two that can ride off the front when there's this much climbing. It's a bit of a toss-up, but I'm going with Tadaj.

[@secretagent86]

Barring incident Pog will win

[@hutchy_4297]

I say Roglic will ride for Pogs, it could be one for the history books.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Could be 🦋👊🔥

[@jimtipton8888]

I don’t know what’s going to happen but I do know it’s going to be great! Go Remco!!!

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Agreed 👍🦋

[@evanshaw17]

Chris dramatic weight difference with Pog and Evenopol. That could give it to TT champion

[@2slo856]

Pogacar will dictate this race. And if he wants to, he will drop the rest on the penultimate lap.

[@BMCS97]

That's not quite how this works. He needs a strong team to make the race hard. He can't drop everyone on a 2 km 6% climb if team Slovenia doesn't make the race hard enough

[@LucasHynar]

But Remco in that last 40kms can just ride off the front and TT into the finish. Tadej was there in 2023 and Remco did it. But Tadej does look stronger and more focused this year.

[@BMCS97]

@@LucasHynar Remco won in 2022 but it wasn't a scenario like you are describing. He attacked from like 80 kms and he was "allowed" to get in the break because he wasn't 1 of the favourites back then and people were marking WVA on the belgium team. That will never happen this year with Remco but it can happen with another strong rider if the strong teams can't control the race properly

[@BerreD79]

@BMCS97, always excuses when Remco wins 😂. He had won Liege- Bastogne-Liege, San Sebastián x2, all with long solo attacks, and the Vuelta….and he ‘wasn’t one of the favourites’ 😂

[@tonyg3091]

@@LucasHynarToo hilly. And as everyone knows what Kid is capable of, he will always be marked.

[@mister_ray]

Mohoric can win the gravel worlds. He is not going to win the road worlds. Gravel worlds is just one week after road worlds. The timing seems suspect.

[@J-cz7yv]

Not really. Riding this race wouldn’t have much impact on the gravel worlds

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Always a possibility. 🤔🦋👍

[@andreasabels589]

The cat ears ... :-D

[@toddo2006]

This year I think Pogi wants the rainbow jersey more than anything else in the world. I'm moving this weekend and won't be able to watch :'(

[@jesselobo3213]

I see "cooperation" to try to mitigate Pogacar by some of the nations hoping to get their guys in position (Belgium, Netherlands, and Switzerland). Certainly, losing Mahoric is a devastating blow to Slovenia, but in the long run I don't believe it will be a material factor in determining the winner, who I say will be Pogacar. Pogacar is not only strong, but he has the savvy to read the peloton, a lot like you Chris, and he can adjust on the fly better than anyone other than maybe Van der Poel.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Agreed. Cooperation will be a key factor. And normally at a race like the worlds there always will be someone lending a hand out there. 🤔👊🦋

[@bjornlangoren3002]

While it is a long race and obviously they will be shedding weaker riders in the hills on every lap, everybody seems to assume it will be won by a GC guy. But shouldnt we at least keep one sprinter in the bag just got in case? There is no Peter Sagan riding here, but surely there must be a couple of sprinters that can endure a tough race .

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Mads and MVDP. That’s it. If there was a pure sprinter to win. The whole cycling world would be shocked. 🤔🦋👊🍀🤞

[@jpethereal]

@@ChrisHornerCycling Pog will be sprinting againt Mads and MVDP like last year. Sad to see Vant is injuried this year.

[@MDP1702]

@@ChrisHornerCycling Matthews maybe too on a really good day, but likely too hard for him.

[@janefreeman995]

Too bad, I definitely cheer for Matej Mohoric! Greetings from Bend. 😊

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Bend 👊🦋

[@neilhollow1732]

I didn’t even know this was a team race. I thought there was only an individual champion.

[@elliotgossard6442]

Chris you look like a young Yul Brynner.

[@ellen5165]

Didn't Luka Mezgec get hit by a car this week? I thought I read he only had scratches nothing major but still how can he be 100%?

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Yep. He did. Supposedly ok though. 😬🦋👍

[@SibhatHagos]

Let's do it remco .it is your chance.

[@franciscopontesvelasco4315]

I dont think Remco will win the race but if he managed to win he would turn into a legend, maybe hes already a legend 👏. I think pogadcar and VanDerPoel will be the main contenders

[@chrisfirek9842]

MvdP repeats on Sunday

[@uffejohansen4315]

I would hope so, but I am just afraid that the climbs are too much for him.

[@michaeldee697]

Wonder how Tratnik's form is??

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Olympics went ok for him. 🤔🦋🤞👍

[@emilegoguely4032]

Imagine getting 12th at TT-worlds and that being used as you're not in shape 😅

[@williamsundkvist69]

You should do the MJ road race tomorrow

[@AlanForkosh]

As usual, 2 notes: 1) Is it too late for Slovenia to add replace Manhoric who could lend some support? 2) Your commentary skipped over Jan Tratnik. Even though Tratnik is on trade team VLaB, he and Pog worked together for a while at Quebec. It seems to me that he acan be part of the late support along with Novak.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Slovenia added two younger riders that do not rider for the big european teams. I listed them in the video. Jan Tratnik will be good as always. But with two unproven young riders and two sprinters that’s half the team so Mohoric will be missed. 😬🦋👍

[@JR-qb7qt]

I surely wouldn't say hes in trouble. It may be an extra challenge but the way he is riding, its not something he wont be able to overcome and on top of that hes really hungry for the title, its in his terrain of likeness and he at the age and time in his career so I am not saying he will absolutely win but would be more surprised if he didnt win. The same when Roger Federer in Tennis was at his peak, he just beat people in straight sets even in the finals. It almost got boring because you already knew who was going to win. Thats how good Pogi is right. Just my 2 cents on the subject.

[@lukadragar4596]

His name is Matic Žumer

[@333wheeler]

The Pog should win if he uses his engine when it matters and does not get drawn into covering every single thing that no doubt will be attempting to heading off into the distance early doors. The course suits him but it suits others as well. Last years finishing circuit was not exactly flat either but MVP handled it ok even with the crash near the end.

[@flyingberserker3965]

Last year MVDP destroyed pogacar with his attack

[@MDP1702]

Last year was perfect MvdP race though: extremely explosive with lots of turns and short steep hills, a bit like a long road version of a CX race.

[@milhouse53]

So many cards to play. Teams like Denmark Spain Italy and GB will put riders into breakaway and Holland and Belgium and Slovenia will be chasing

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Agreed. 👊🦋

[@MDP1702]

Belgium should also play the rider in breaks strategy, only working when Slovenia is already weakened (or when they have no choice).

[@tonilauge5786]

TT Team mixed Relay 0.85 sec between Australia and Germany 😱🙏

[@JoergWeida]

Antonia Niedermayer was the MVP of that race! She was on the front for almost the whole distance, with Lippert barely able to follow her on the ascends, and took away 20 seconds from world champion Grace Brown and Brodie Chapman racing as a team of two, and also 20 seconds from the Italians!

[@thisishowthetruthdies684]

If Belgium, The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries start sending riders up the road, then Slovakia is going to be in a world of trouble and probably will have no choice but to have Roglic cover some of these moves... if he has the legs. As Chris would say you want to create chaos and not use guys like Wellens to ride tempo.

[@milhouse53]

Roglic only need to cover moves from the riders that can not be chased by the peloton. BELGIUM has the best team and they will be chasing breakaway. So Pog and Roglic need to watch Remco. However if a strong group goes on a break..let's say 10 riders with Jorgenson Alaphilipe, etc...that can be trouble if Slovenia and Belgium will be looking at each other like: you catch them!

[@P4P5]

Slovenia

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

We can only hope that Demark do not again just ride tempo when entering the circuit like they did last year. 🤔😬🦋🤪👍

[@ogradar85]

You obviously haven't checked our team roster...If they go up the road we then put Mezgec, Govekar, Jan Tratnik and Domen Novak at the front of the peloton to control the gap. Then we use Roglič to catapult Pogi in the penultimate or last lap. And the country is called Slovenia ffs, you would think people would know this by now with the amount of Pogi's exposure.

[@MDP1702]

@@ogradar85 Mezgec should be gone by the time attacks start to fly and Govekar likely too or soon after. So that leaves Tratnik and Novak against a potentially strong group, they'll just be used up quite quickly then (or not able to keep the gap stable/close it). Also not sure how strong Novak currently is. Tratnik also didn't look great in the Canadian classics, so lets see if he's in good shape first.

[@painterQjensen]

My favorit winner is still Peter Sagan sry ;) , but thats some record Remco is setting.

[@leduch]

there will be only one ! from belgique ! njoylife🚴🚴‍♂🚴‍♀🦋

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

😂🦋👊🇧🇪

[@johnwalsh9285]

Thumbs up 👍👍👍👍

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

👊🦋

[@mikeoc217]

Bummer

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

🦋👍

[@unknown23hornet22]

I think that jorgenson can out pull pogacar on the Flats. So if pogacar gets isolated, there is a chance.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Yep. There is a chance 🤔🦋🍀👍

[@timliscum2861]

from Nationality team perspective... what's it like being expected to be a domestique when you also want to win... also ..does Paid team loyalty trump Nationality team duties or visa versa?

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

The big cycling nations will always have priority over a trade team loyalty. But it’s not rare to see a smaller nationality rider help their trade team leader from time to time if they were able to win.🤔🦋👍

[@samlin8089]

what do the domestique riders get out of this in terms prestige, money, etc?

[@MDP1702]

National pride, being on a winning team, gratitude of the leader (and other riders), more chance being selected in the future (on maybe a course better suited to them/when they are stronger), ...

[@JureRijavec]

Tratnik Jan?

[@ColdGrayMorning]

UAE and Slovenia - different story

[@elaineoconnell2344]

Why is Primoz only ranked two stars?

[@milanvanwelden9952]

USA looking very strong as well!

[@TempoKemp]

Also - why don't you ever talk about all the doping bans happening these days, in your Beyond the coverage posts?

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

None of the riders of any importance have been caught doping. Zero really since I started T🦋E. The closest was Nairo and that was for Tramadol which isn’t a performance enhancing drug, I believe anyways, but I did talk about and said it wasn’t a performance enhancing drug so I don’t care that he took it. The only other was Andrea Picolo who rode for EF but had almost no results anyways and very little was said about it in the press at the time. 🤔🦋

[@anomander-rake]

Will Remco and Pogi cancel each other out? Carapaz can do something on this course.

[@radokostanjevic5478]

Carapaz not even there on Sunday…

[@anomander-rake]

@@radokostanjevic5478 My bad

[@dengar1313]

Tadej's trouble is all other riders' best days...Juju Adri =]

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

😂🦋💪

[@MitchellSchwaber]

Hopefully it will be raining here, so I can stay inside and watch it..

[@stolirosa]

So they can’t substitute a different cyclist of one gets injured and can’t attend?

[@MDP1702]

They can, they just don't have a deep field in Slovenia, so the replacement just is much weaker.

[@filippocevenini6266]

Pogacar will have 16 teammates from Uae....

[@debasishnayak8610]

I am curious to see if they do! Do it help the team in any way?

[@Eirikkinserdal]

I have been wondering about this. The insentive to have the world champ in your team has to be bigger than having it for your country? You just use the jersey when riding for your team anyway 🤔

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Maybe one or two. But 16 is a bit much. Could be Roglic has a couple also though. 🤪😬🦋👊

[@filippocevenini6266]

@@ChrisHornerCycling in all the national teams, Elite Road race, Uae will have Pogacar + 16 riders and Del Toro, Morgado, Christen doing U23. .....

[@MDP1702]

@@Eirikkinserdal Problem is that if they openly rider for Pog, they might not get selected next years. They might be more inclined to work with Pog or sacrifice themselves if they can't win and it doesn't hurt their nations team, but they shouldn't really ride for him in any obvious way either.

[@michaelbergfeld8751]

Without his teammateo Topgaçar may be Flopgaçar

[@vbh4113]

..not Novàk..but Novák

[@scullcap357]

Your not shading on the Golden boy now are you .

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

No. 🦋🤔

[@thomassciaroni6942]

Smash LIKE

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

👊🦋

[@marecare77]

It is a loss 4 us but hiš form was awful all year Long.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Mohoric had a little coming at Montreal. 🤔🦋👍

[@yvesgysel9834]

Remco Evenepoel is going to win this. Watch it on Sundays. He's in form and Remco is in the winning mood. He's going to drop Pogi and Mathieu and than in TT-modus finishing solo. Celebrating by phoning home and slamming it. At least, that's the plan.

[@joepapp01]

Scoring a historic Double-Double...something Chris and I and you will never see again in our lifetimes. This is the greatest prospective road WC EVER!!

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

We can only hope. 👊🦋🔥🤞

[@considerthis4344]

I don't see Primoz selling himself out for Pogachar's benefit given what happened at the tour when Vingegaard was the benefactor of Primoz selling out in order for him to get his first tour victory. The last thing Primoz would want is to see Pogi wearing the rainbow band all of next year.

[@milhouse53]

It may be so. But it may be that Pogacar wears it deservingly as the top rider and Roglic will know that if he does not help but disappear or will ride competitively against Pog and then cracks that won't look good on him. Slovenia is a small nation of 4 million. People will see it

[@Mike-rm1lb]

Well said. However, Roglic would love to be the FIRST Slovenian rider to win a WC. Grab the headlines back in his home country and rub the jersey in Pog's face all of next year. Great revenge for the 2020 time trial also. I can't see him riding too hard for Pog. Too much history and rivalry. It's kind of like he'd be riding for UAE😬

[@Mike-rm1lb]

@@milhouse53 They will see it, but after winning all grand tours this year, Roglic and Pogacar have a lot of rope. Slovenians can't complain. I think they would understand Roglic's hunger, he's not getting younger.

[@milhouse53]

@Mike-rm1lb I agree with you. If at 100km Pog needs help chasing let's say Van Der Poel and he asks Roglic to rotate and Roglic will not but then ride away from Pog on last climb- this may happen. But most probably they will rotate if needed and will ride together if they need to. A different question is covering attacks with 20km to go

[@regismonkton]

Pogacar might have to pay Roglic a lot of money in order for Roglic to do enough work to enable Pogacar a win.

[@matlindell5022]

Mutants vs aliens.🤫💉🩸🤡🎪🧨🤐

[@donquique1]

I just don't get why that race is not free for all. Every man for himself. This is not a true world championship. Better call this a team world championship, and every member of the teams gets the shirt. Ridiculous.

[@MDP1702]

Because cycling is a team sport. A free for all wouldn't really be cycling anymore, I don't even know if it would be better or worse.

[@fjure2]

"Pogačar in TROUBLE," HA HA HA,....

[@wsmc723]

The title of this video did not age well.

[@justinchutkow7785]

I seem to remember Mohoric saying in an interview that he was not on good terms with either Tadej or Primoz. Do you think that may have played into the decision?

[@barneystinsom]

no lol

[@TheRedDown]

Not True, Pogi and Mohorič train together a lot in Monako

[@QPSQUANTUM424]

Tadej and Mohoric are training partners with a great friendship. Mohoric was going all in for Pogi. Just Google it!

[@justinchutkow7785]

Looking at footage... Yeah, I must have remembered wrongly. Sorry about that.

[@stevenmeyer9674]

@@justinchutkow7785 I can't see anyone being at odds with Pogi. I have never seen or heard a mean spirited word out of him or directed at him.

[@phacharawut]

Top three, Tade, Remco, MVP

[@TempoKemp]

Mohoric is not riding cos he and Roglic don't get along

[@radokostanjevic5478]

But Moho and Pogi are very good friends… some speculate Moho suggested a plan to go all in for Pogi, which is the only wise tactic, of course. Primož was totally against that, never being a team player anyway. So Moho stepped put… I don’t know whether this us true, but when involving Primož, everything is possible. Especially only 1 day before, Moho saying they will ALL ride for Pogi, because he deserves it…

[@TheFlyingDogFish]

Nonsense. He was on the list until the crash.

[@radokostanjevic5478]

@@TheFlyingDogFish , he was on the list till yesterday;)

[@TheFlyingDogFish]

@@radokostanjevic5478 Exactly, he still wanted to go, but in the end, he couldn't.

[@matjaztramsek4245]

​@@radokostanjevic5478 Man you have some extreme hate for Rog. Think that Pog and Rog going along each ather qite ok. Keep down bad karma. Is bad for Pog also. Can not compare Rog and Moho. Rog is much higher ranket with much more wins and 5 GT. Dont see Rog will achive all this if he is such bad team player. Maybe you will be suprised after the race. Is just stupid to write this kind of things you do in cycling channel. By your name it looks that you are at least vrom ex yogo or maybe Slovenia. So it makes iven worse. Keep cool.

[@mickrogers2572]

Wow is me Tom Pidcock its safe too say won't be in the mix at the end of the race Tom is Excellent mountain biker , no debate on that , however he does come up with the very occasional result on the road but i definitely wouldn't say he's a road racer

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

You are correct that he doesn’t win often but that’s because he is a mountain biker and a cyclocross rider and doing way too many things other than being a road racer. Maybe one season he will be only on the road and then we will start to see just how good he can be. 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️🦋👊

[@dr.merlot1532]

Let's all hold hands and form a prayer chain and pray to our God Primoz Roglic. I pray Lord Primoz that the world may know again Roglification in this years world championship. Amen.

[@xijiang7077]

pogacar will go solo last 50km😂

[@End_Illegal_Apartheid_israhell]

ruh roh

[@daberstedt8219]

It would be nice if you could also cover some women races. I like to watch your content and would be happy to see your take on some of the often interesting women races.

[@CD-W0DOS]

Chris recaps women’s races regularly.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

The women races are very exciting also. It’s just a time issue why I don’t do them often. The organizers overlap them on the same days as men’s races often which makes it impossible to get two videos done in the same day. But it would good to cover some of them. 🥲🦋👍

[@airaf33]

People aren't ready for Chris calling them knuckleheads, I'm afraid

[@thomy2562]

​@@airaf33The woman races have the highest density of knucklehead calling on the channel xd

[@MountainKing7]

I ain't watching that for sure.

[@LadyBird-n2t]

Promoz does not have a good record of working for others..😢

[@alinapopescu872]

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this an individual race? Why talk in terms of teams? If I were Mohoric, for instance, I'd do my own race. I'd want a place on the podium for myself. Why help Pogacar? Or is this just another road race, just with different teams? If so, why bother?

[@ericpiche2999]

I guess the US team is chopped liver

[@scotth3354]

Pretty much

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Actually they are looking good. If there is chaos at all out there. Then it could happen for them. Just going to need a little luck 🍀 🤞🦋👊

[@manoloeresmio4397]

third...

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Top five 👊🦋🦋🦋

[@starkparker16]

I think Chris is right and the loss of Matej is a big deal. Tadej relies on his entire team to ride for him in nearly every race. 🛋️🦋

[@Rainmanzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

first!

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

Rainman 🦋🏆👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌧️☔️

[@ZENmud]

Riding in harmony would improve both(!) their chances, but when(?) will the long knives come out😮😂? Somehow, I'm ready to be disappointed by "Team Slovenia" and we are four days out, still.

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

😂🦋👊😱🔪

[@Livitt351]

Knucklehead 😂😂

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

👊🦋

[@vbh4113]

Not "Govakar" just simlpe "GovEkar".. Govékar

[@REGNARTS00]

If the jersey isn’t awarded to the team, why can’t it be every man for himself? That would be a much more interesting race.

[@fiddleronthebike]

why? Well, try… and you will be beaten by the one who is supported by tram mates. And believe me, it won’t be more interesting, it would be absolutely boring, because nobody can race ~300k on fire. So everyone had to hide and safe energy… would be the death of a cycling race

[@ChrisHornerCycling]

To much luck involved that way, if no one has teammates. But I would not mind smaller teams 🤔🦋🔥👊