{"id":764269,"date":"2026-06-27T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764269\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:06:14","slug":"do-not-ride-to-bring-him-back-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764269\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDo not ride to bring him back immediately\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThat is very difficult, because his system of riding everyone off the wheel, widening the gap and then staying a minute ahead is something he has perfected,\u201d Peiper said. \u201cThey get a little bit closer, then he rides a little harder again. He drinks and eats well. Nobody can close it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peiper warns against chasing Pogacar on instinct<\/p>\n

Pogacar\u2019s long-range attacks often create panic behind. Peiper\u2019s answer is different: do not burn everything trying to erase the gap immediately. \u201cIt is better, as Remco, not to blow things up,\u201d Peiper explained. \u201cYou gather your troops, but you do not ride to bring him back immediately. You let him ride at a minute and keep the tempo tight. Tighter than he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peiper\u2019s point is built around control rather than reaction. Pogacar is at his most dangerous when rivals chase on impulse, break their own structure and leave him to settle into a rhythm out front. Holding him close, without emptying the whole chase too soon, is the route Peiper sees as more realistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you need a strong team, but the Belgians have that,\u201d he added. \u201cIf he goes from 100 kilometres out, then you have more chance than from 40 kilometres.\u201d<\/p>\n

That part of Peiper\u2019s answer looks most directly towards the World Championships in Canada, where Evenepoel can call on Belgian strength around him. At the Tour, the equivalent question will fall on Red Bull, and whether they can keep enough riders around Evenepoel when Pogacar begins to stretch the race.<\/p>\n

\"Tadej<\/p>\n

Evenepoel finished on the podium alongside Pogacar at Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2026<\/p>\n

Pauwels points to Evenepoel\u2019s aerodynamic weaponBelgian national coach Serge Pauwels<\/a> also sees the problem facing Pogacar\u2019s rivals. Once the Slovenian has made the gap, the numbers behind him can remain stubbornly stable.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Red Bull they can see that it stays constant once the gap has been made,\u201d Pauwels said. \u201cDo you train very intensively to try to follow him, or do you do something different? Pogacar can ride a very hard five minutes, while he also has not yet suffered at the moment he attacks. That just makes it very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pauwels pointed to Pogacar\u2019s victory at the World Championships in Zurich, where the Slovenian launched from long range and still survived to the finish despite fading late. \u201cIn Zurich there was a chance to beat him, because he basically fell into the trap there of going from 100 kilometres out,\u201d said Pauwels. \u201cOn the final lap he stalled, but he still made it.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Rwanda he did something similar. But the instinct is to try to follow him,” he added. “Suppose Remco can follow him on one climb, then that is obviously also just a good situation for us. He may then be able to make sure Pogacar uses more energy than the other way around, because Remco can use his aerodynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evenepoel\u2019s best route may depend on the exact situation: follow Pogacar when he can, use his aerodynamic strength when the road allows it, and avoid turning every Pogacar attack into an immediate all-or-nothing chase.<\/p>\n

Peiper knows how Pogacar built his Tour-winning method. His warning to Evenepoel and Red Bull is that beating it may require resisting the first instinct to chase.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThat is very difficult, because his system of riding everyone off the wheel, widening the gap and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[287916,64,63,784,39733,8396,303312,85,6494,2845],"class_list":["post-764269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-allan-peiper","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-serge-pauwels","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}