Geraint Thomas: Tadej Pogacar's 'Insane Talent' Makes Him the Best Cyclist

[Music] how was his birthday day a about better um but now he was he was okay we were lucky with the weather in the end I was happy with that for the start and then uh to be honest I felt pretty average like all day especially before the climb I was a bit like oh this could be a terrible birthday but um managed to regroup and yeah it was actually okay you know I had to let the boys go and um UAE lifted up in POG went just cuz I couldn't uh yeah I had to ride my own pace and fortunately for me uh I was with Ben o Conor and his teammate who did a really good ride to the top and then and uh yeah I knew I knew I had like two and a half minutes on tibery so I didn't want to go too crazy on The Descent but just follow the UAE dudes and um all pretty under control I guess Rel it all came back together like you say with the help of uh a yeah I know I had a decent Gap anyway like I say so it was in no major rush but um it was still nice to close to them and you could relax a little bit more then but uh I'm feeling every year of my 38 years now so yeah you conserved well was there anything you could have done to try to get into that second spot any regrets no not at all I think um the whole race myself and the team we've um done our best and uh you know we've we've ridden well um there was just nothing more I could do really to um to overtake Danny great ride by him and um as I say tired now third place that's quite an accomplishment at a young age of yours yeah I I you know everyone's always gone on about my age for quite a while now and I've never really seen the fuss um but now oh yeah um you know it's 38 is pretty old for a professional cyclist isn't it but gar you've seen the best contor the best finger go and so on and so on where does this performance by PG ATA rank ah for me is uh he's the best I've raced with I think and I've raced with a lot of good guys um just he's so versatile and aggressive and uh all year round as well it's not just um well like me for a couple of months a year where you're good um it's insane how talented he is can you see anyone I mean obviously you want an inos Rider to win the Tour but can you see anyone beating him at the tour um yonas is the only guy that's really on the same level as him but um it's yet to be seen how he is I guess um the rest of course there's always a chance in it's a bike race but on pure physical Talent he's unique he probably won't be on a gr Podium at 38 though sorry he probably won't be on a gr Podium at 38 like you are a lot of money that he won't be racing when he's 38 yeah so at least I've got that on him but yeah you know each to their own and um it's no uh the only thing is he makes us look pretty slow you know but that's the whole pet on it's not just me coming back to you g um after all what you said do you feel still H for the challenge J to do you still feel hope to the challenge J T at the moment I'm not thinking about the tour yet man I just want to uh have a nice C beer for my birthday tonight

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Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Sat May 25 2024