{"id":194948,"date":"2025-10-12T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:02:12","slug":"de-cauwer-draws-bold-conclusion-about-vingegaard-and-visma-addresses-van-der-poel-as-bruyneel-reveals-one-last-pogacar-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194948\/","title":{"rendered":"De Cauwer draws bold conclusion about Vingegaard and Visma, addresses van der Poel as Bruyneel reveals one last Pogacar plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Pogacar<\/a> seems almost unbeatable… Though this year, there was one man who managed it. Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> defeated him head-to-head at Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix, with a nod also to Wout van Aert, who won the final stage of the Tour de France in Paris. Those are exactly the kinds of races where Jos\u00e9 De Cauwer still sees opportunities for organizers who want to keep things exciting.In the mountainous races of recent weeks, however, it\u2019s become clear that Pogacar can\u2019t be stopped when there are 3,000, 4,000, or even 5,000 meters of climbing. He won the World Championships, the European Championships, Tre Valli Varesine, and now also the Tour of Lombardy<\/a>, all with little resistance. Riders like Jonas Vingegaard<\/a> and Remco Evenepoel have tried, but in 2025, all efforts proved futile.So, during the post-race analysis of the Tour of Lombardy on Sporza<\/a>, De Cauwer indirectly addressed the race organizers. \u201cTadej Pogacar is absolutely beatable. If you organize a 100-kilometer race with only 500 meters of climbing tomorrow, he can be beaten. But as soon as it gets hard, he just stands out so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pogacar went down in his first Paris-Roubaix, but still finished second<\/p>\n

Have Vingegaard and Visma | Lease a Bike already thrown in the towel?<\/p>\n

In Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix, and the opening week of the Tour de France, it was Van der Poel who truly challenged Pogacar. After Il Lombardia, De Cauwer believes those are the kinds of races – where Van der Poel and other classics specialists can win – that hold the most potential for drama. \u201cAt Paris\u2013Roubaix, you saw one of the most beautiful things we witnessed this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Cauwer was referring to the battle with Mathieu van der Poel, which was cut short by Pogacar\u2019s crash some 10 to 15 kilometers from the finish. \u201cThat was the one time he finally had to lose out. Other than that, he was almost always the best. Just look at Vingegaard. I get the sense he\u2019s already thrown in the towel a bit. At Visma, they seem to have realized they might need to start chasing different goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

A strong statement from De Cauwer. Has everyone really given up? The Belgian analyst still has a secret card for the spring classics: \u201cI\u2019m especially looking forward to seeing Wout van Aert in the classics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"tadej-pogacar-68ea867c6b5be\"\/Bruyneel speaks of isolation tactics against PogacarA bold statement from De Cauwer? Is everyone giving up? The Belgian secretly has another ace up his sleeve for the spring. \u201cI’m especially looking forward to Wout van Aert for the classics.\u201d Any other ideas? Well, Johan Bruyneel had one in the podcast The Move<\/a>, with the somewhat complicated requirement that the entire peloton must fight against Pogacar as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they should try, especially in Monuments over longer distances, is to isolate Pogacar. Let him attack early, before you really start riding together and keeping it together,\u201d said the Belgian. \u201cThen you have to hope that Pogacar becomes overconfident and blows himself up. That has happened before, but he seems to have it under better control now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to try something,\u201d said Bruyneel. \u201cYou can try to attack with several riders from one team, but Pogacar is so strong. And the second strongest rider in the peloton might well be Isaac Del Toro.\u201d George Hincapie added: “I don’t think Pogacar is even at his limit, so I really have no idea how they can beat him. ‘<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar seems almost unbeatable… Though this year, there was one man who managed it. Mathieu van der…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}