After the new victory of Tadej Pogacar on the Tour de France, the gap is colossal between Slovenian and his competitors.
From time to time, Tadej Pogacar can come across a bone. On the last stage of the Tour de France, in the streets of Paris, Wout Van Aert managed to drop the Slovenian ogre on the cobblestones on rue Lepic. On other mountain days, the yellow jersey left victory to escaped, voluntarily or not. But over time, the world champion does not really have any competition.
The gap between Tadej Pogacar and the rest of the world is even more blatant when reading the UCI ranking, updated on Tuesday. The Slovenian is obviously in the lead with 11,465 points. Far, very far, then comes its runner -up Mads Pedersen, which has 4,555.6 points in the UCI classification. The calculation is quite fast, Pogacar has almost twice and a half more points than his closest prosecutor in the hierarchy.
Pogacar is too strong, over time
On this ranking which has accumulated the results of the last 12 months, Pogacar, which had already crushed the Tour de France last year, did not necessarily increase its total points. Concretely, if the gap has largely increased, it is because Remco Evenepoel has lost many points, and is now 4th in the ranking, behind Mathieu van der Poel. Jonas Vingegaard remains seventh.
This abyssal gap in the classification illustrates the domination which is that of Pogacar, over time, on its competitors. Capable of shining on all terrains, the Slovenian sometimes has opponents, but never the same, or at least on all the races. Van der Poel is his big rival on the classics, Vingegaard is (or was) his most tough opponent on stages races. But their register, which is the usual specialization of cycling runners, is much less extensive.
