{"id":211728,"date":"2025-06-25T00:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211728\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:19:17","slug":"we-have-to-admit-that-pogacar-is-one-level-above-but-red-bull-bora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/211728\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We have to admit that Pogacar is one level above&#8221; &#8211; But Red Bull &#8211; BORA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not to say that Roglic and his team think things will be easy against the reigning Tour de France champion though. &#8220;We have to admit that Pogacar is one level above.\u00a0We have to accept that\u2019s how it is, and we cannot negotiate it,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/team-trainers-dont-know-how-to-solve-the-pogacar-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains Red Bull &#8211; BORA &#8211; hansgrohe&#8217;s Head of Performance Dan Lorang in conversation with Velo<\/a>.\u00a0&#8220;It\u2019s hard to go into a race and say, \u2018OK, when Pogacar goes, we follow\u2019. We\u2019re seeing again and again that it\u2019s just not always possible.\u00a0And it\u2019s hard to know what we can do against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Roglic may, as mentioned, have more Grand Tour wins on his palmares than both Pogacar and Vingegaard, with 5 (4x Vuelta, 1x Giro) to the 4 (3x Tour, 1x Giro) of his compatriot and 2 (2x Tour) of his former teammate, but now aged 35, Roglic is beginning to run out of time to win that missing Maillot Jaune.<\/p>\n<p>So just how can Red Bull &#8211; BORA &#8211; hansgrohe go about closing to the gap and taking the fight to Pogacar? &#8220;What you can do is play strong and use tactical cards, which we tried in the classics,&#8221; Lorang analyses.\u00a0&#8220;If you get things right, we\u2019ve seen having numbers up the road for the final can count.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pogacar is so impressive, but he cannot do everything. We\u2019ve seen that before. We can try to ride clever as a team. But when it comes to one-to-one, we\u2019ve seen there are a few guys who are just a totally different level at the moment,&#8221; Lorang concludes. &#8220;There\u2019s no clear solution for us on that. All that us in the performance team can do is work hard and make our guys strong enough to use numbers or create surprises, like we did in the classics.\u00a0But it feels like there won\u2019t be so many surprises this year. If you don\u2019t laugh, you\u2019ll cry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s not to say that Roglic and his team think things will be easy against the reigning Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-211728","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114741140780554895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}