{"id":3150,"date":"2024-06-10T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2024-06-10T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:09:47","slug":"whose-tt-was-better-remco-or-pogacar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/discussion\/whose-tt-was-better-remco-or-pogacar\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose TT was better, Remco or Pogacar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"

In recent weeks we\u2019ve seen two of the current crop of elite GC talent put on amazing time trials, Pogacar in the Giro and Remco in the Dauphine. The really interesting thing about this is that both riders beat \u201cTT specialists\u201d – Tarling was bettered by Remco Evenepoel while Ganna was beaten by Pogacar on stage 7 at the Giro. Both of these efforts were over rolling courses too and relatively long (more than half an hour) which gives us quite a rare opportunity to compare two relatively comparable time trials that took place in different countries.\u00a0

<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


What happened at the Giro – a reminder:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tadej Poga\u010dar of UAE Team Emirates stormed to an impressive victory on stage 7 of the Giro d\u2019Italia back in May, dominating the 40.6km individual time trial from Foligno to Perugia. His stellar performance not only extended his lead in the maglia rosa but also brought him closer to clinching the overall victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filippo Ganna from Ineos Grenadiers initially set the pace with the fastest times at both intermediate checkpoints, hinting at a potential victory for him. However, as Poga\u010dar tackled the final climb towards the finish line, the suspense escalated as Ganna’s substantial lead began to dwindle. By the finish, Pogacar took the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened at the Dauphine – another reminder:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On stage 4 of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, the European time trial champion, Josh Tarling of Ineos Grenadiers, delivered a scorching performance but fell short of surpassing the unstoppable Remco Evenepoel from Soudal Quick-Step. Despite Tarling’s impressive run, Evenepoel, the reigning time trial world champion, seized the lead with a remarkable time of 41:49 over the 34.4km course, ending Tarling’s reign in the hot seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarling set the early benchmark, finishing just 17 seconds behind Evenepoel in second place, while Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d of Bora-Hansgrohe secured the third spot, trailing the winner by 39 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competition remained tense through the first two time checks, with Evenepoel and Tarling neck and neck within a few seconds of each other. However, it was the Belgian rider who made a decisive push for victory in the final kilometres, securing his dominance on the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who was better?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


On the fifth of July, the first of two Tour de France TTs will take place over a 25.3km course with 300m of elevation gain and the course will likely take the riders around 30 minutes – so relatively similar to the TTs we are comparing in terms of energy systems used by the athletes. The way we will decide whose TT was better is to back calculate the riders watts and cda based on their performances and what information is available and input these performances onto the course for the Tour de France stage 7 TT on July the 5th. On the surface, Remco Evenepoel\u2019s TT looks streaks ahead of Pogacar\u2019s – however, I have Pogacar\u2019s performance as around 5% \u201cbetter\u201d in terms of power output for the estimated cda (however, all of these are estimated as neither rider publishes their power and, as a result of this, 5% is within the margin of error).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will happen at the tour? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The TT suits both riders, it\u2019s quite long and rolling. If we plug in our estimates from the TTs that we\u2019ve seen from both riders so far this year, we get 29:25 for Remco Evenepoel and 29:26 for Pogacar with a margin of error of roughly \u00b130s for each rider (under predicted conditions) though we will revisit these predictions with a more accurate weather forecast in the days before the TT.\u00a0

<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During the grand tours, myWindsock is the place to be for TT predictions. We will provide predictions for the entire race and specifically, the two TTs for the GC top 10 as well as TT favourites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign up here to myWindsock<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happened at the Giro – a reminder:\u00a0 Tadej Poga\u010dar of UAE Team Emirates stormed to an impressive victory on stage 7 of the Giro d\u2019Italia back in May, dominating the 40.6km individual time trial from Foligno to Perugia. His stellar performance not only extended his lead in the maglia rosa but also brought him … Continue reading “Whose TT was better, Remco or Pogacar?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywindsock.com\/page\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}