{"id":39353,"date":"2025-08-02T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39353\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:49:08","slug":"tadej-pogacar-became-the-strava-king-of-tour-de-france-with-300-new-best-times-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/39353\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar became the &#8220;Strava king&#8221; of Tour de France with 300+ new best times set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only was <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> the fastest by far to complete the 3.338 kilometers of racing from Lille to Paris this July, the Slovenian was also the fastest man to pass several timed segments on a popular (not only) cycling platform Strava. These segment called &#8216;KOM&#8217; are beloved target goals especially among amateur community, but when a phenomenal rider such as Pogacar arrives, nobody stands a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Pogacar&#8217;s most prized &#8216;KOM trophies&#8217; will be the times he set on Hautacam, Col de la Loze and particularly impressive was his ride up Mont Ventoux &#8211; by far best in the famed climbs&#8217; history. In total, Pogacar claimed a total of 362 new KOMs, far surpassing Lenny Martinez in second place with 126.<\/p>\n<p>However it is important to note that not all riders actively &amp; publicly upload their activities to Strava, which is also the case for Jonas Vingegaard who would&#8217;ve surely taken a large chunk of his Slovenian rivals&#8217; best times if he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only was Tadej Pogacar the fastest by far to complete the 3.338 kilometers of racing from Lille&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-39353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39353","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=39353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}