Tadej Pogačar TOYING with Everyone on Luz Ardiden | Tour de France Stage 18 2021
Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Stage 18 of the Tour de France 2021 where the final mountain stage of this year's edition finished on Luz Ardiden with double mountain points available once again, the polka dot jersey was up for grabs if Tadej Pogacar wanted to go after it against Wout Poels.
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Professional road cycling pundit Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of stage 18 / résumé étape 18 / resumen etapa 18 of the Tour de France 2021. Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) wins the stage followed by Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma) and Richard Carapaz (INEOS Grenadiers). Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) keeps the yellow jersey followed by Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma) and Richard Carapaz (INEOS Grenadiers).
Pog:"Why should I be worried?" Peloton:"No argument here"
“Midnight raids by the police?” “Oh shit yeah”
With Roglic out, he can play.
@Leona Bastet I remember that, Roglic was later accused of not being aggressive enough... He has had a nightmare TDF2021
That was an idiotic question ...
@Leona Bastet he didn't wipe the floor tho it was under a minute
"The simplicity of this game amuses me! Bring me your finest wines and cheeses" Pogaçar, probably
"Darkness my old friend, GG Enric" - chapeau sir, chapeau.
Yeah, I did a spit-take when I saw that!
Had to screenshot that one for posterity. Such a great sequence.
Hahaha I really had to laugh out loud and then went to search for a top comment mentioning it
The best part is Pogacar sprinting up the mountain and the on screen stat giving him 9km/h
I can’t wait for the tt where pogi just pulls up on a mountain bike and is just like “wanted to challenge myself ya know”
He’s going to see his aas
Imagine how many extra seconds that tuft of hair out of the helmet has already cost him 🤣🤣
Laurent Fignon 2.0
That tuft is actually the source of his power. So much so that even his domestiques are equipping themselves with a tuft of greatness
Hairodynamics are the new marginal gains
lol i know he always hs that up there huh hahaha, i wanto like cut or tuck it in.
Nah bruh, it acts as a cooling fin for him
That Pogi interview sure has changed now
😂😂😂
Pogačar is amazing. When I watched that interview, I was shocked at the stupidity of the question, and clearly Pogačar was too! He handled it with grace though.
yeh i agree, people think it's rude and arrogant. But the context of questions considering the circumstances is just ridiculous
@@andeeguy1260 who's here after 2023 where jonas got buttraped
now 2 years later...
I liked that trash edit very much.
got hyped instantly
What they said, meaaaaan edit.
Hope you are healing well Lanterne.
Here here
he is rubbing Vaseline on his body
Tell me you used to be a lawyer without telling me you were a lawyer. "Well-remunerated."
can u pls tell me why/how lawyers often use that term
@@pitfall0121 about every 6 minutes
Oh oops I thought you were asking how often they were remunerated
c o n t e m p o r a n e o u s
Valverde 10th - pretty good for a guy almost twice Pogacar's age.
I agree, but not fully. Age doesn't mean much. Chris Horner could do it at 43 years and only really stopped when he couldn't recover fully from a crash. Valverde can even be better, he is only 41 years. BTW keep your eyes on Chris Froome, if he is able to complete his rehabilitation, he will have another 6-7 years in his career and the young guys will be in proper jeopardy.
@@crispusmahea2135 Ha. Froome is "riding out his contract". He's proven his strength of character by hanging in and doing what he can for his team and helping that spectator/rider that came to grief yesterday, but he doesn't have another 6-7 years left in his career. He's now 2 years into his rehabilitation. How many more years does he need to get back to where he will be "putting the young guys in proper jeopardy"? 2 more? 3 more? And he'll get stronger as he gets older, all the while rehabbing a severe career-altering injury? That's what you're saying, right? You're a delusional fanboy. Come back to Earth.
@@joesutherland2017 I agree with you, he has a contract & he's proven alot by hanging in there and actually completing the tour. Did you know that some people were afraid that he'd leave on his hands and knees? Instead the guy was pulling turns in front of the peleton today! Listen if he completes his rehabilitation successfully, the he has more than 7 years on his career and yes he can get stronger with age, it's all down to the nutrition, medical & training regime. I like to use the example of Chris Horner who won the Giro at 43 years! If Froome isn't able to get himself fixed or somehow fails to complete his rehab then we can call his career.
Vingegaard is now making a voodoo doll of Pogi, so he can play with him
Vingegaard, the mountain goat from Denmark, the king of the Denmark highest "mountain" (170 meters).
It worked!
Haha, that introduction is absolutely first class. Hats off mate, great production
Great to see the yellow jersey out front & winning stages. I'm sure Eddy Merckx would approve!
Rafal majka.... Amazing pull 2 days in a row
Where has Rui Costa been the last few days ??
i think now he knows why he should be worried about jonas
And he still knows
The first two times, before finally playing it back, I thought the interviewer asked, "Are you worried about being a god?" Tadej : Why should I be worried?
Pretty neat snot management from Pogacar in the intro. Chic.
This aint his first rodeo!
Pogacar is just out on a club-run every day. It wouldn't surprise me if he Sprinted for the "Paris" sign! 🤣🤣🤣
he should help his teamate to win 1 of the remaining stage after this as appreciation hahahah
@@iskandazaqwan He let Ulissi to win Stage 4 on Sv. Gora at the Tour of Slovenia in the June. It is very nice gesture.
i think pog wanted jonas to win the stage, but when he saw mas attacking and jonas unable to follow, he thought if its not gonna be jonas, then it should be me
...Man I thought the same
"It's a game for me since I started" .... You're playing a different game mate
A game with the testers 😅
Agreed chess and checkers it feels. Like football with Messi, zidane, pirlo, xavi, iniesta types he's so poised and intelligent. Been racing since he was 9 so not too many years difference maybe at his craft. Roglic is funny always emphasizes "I'm young 31 not to many miles on my tires: ), tadej is older in bike years lol" true despite almost decade difference. Both really nice guys off bike.
Nah he just got rim brakes and most of GC is on CX bikes guised as road racers.
@@durianriders shut up
@@durianriders can you finally shut your mouth if the tour is won on disc brakes?
I'm really disappointed that Pogačar didn't put any effort into getting the Green Jersey. What a slacker!
- Tadej Pogacar fails to win the green jersey for a second consecutive year. Some French Newspaper, probably.
@@ThisIsANameBruh you got me rolling lol
he was fifth on the green jersey classification i believe!! next year he'll do it
That interview was cringe. Can they not ask the guy more intelligent questions than "are you worried about someone 6 minutes behind you?". In other years, a 6 minute gap would probably put you out of top 10
Exactly 🤣 he should be more worried about WADA.. but then again, they all should 😅
It was worth it to get that answer.
I wonder how much it would of been if Roglic didnt crash, with Jonas as a domestique, it would of been interestinf
Well said! What kind of question is that?! How can you answer that and not sound like a jerk?
No doubt, his answer was all-time; catching himself laughing and trying to roll it back was even better...kinda makes me want more of this. Still, my heart is with Primozzzz.
The interviewer asks "are you worried about Vingegaard?" He should have said "Hells to the no! I'm the boss here in TT or the mountains. Ineos sucks!"
Great coverage Lanterne, in my opinion every rider completing this tour is a winner with some more remarkable than others but no losers here.
It must be the bike?
@@lisashiela9137 some have better dope than others *
Tadej Pogačar dominira na Dirki po Franciji. Tadej dominates. Bravo!
2:34 Latour got the 5000 euro. That's why he gave it all. The inexplainable event was that Gaudu, after pulling most of the climb, allowed Latour to go first.
"Why should I be?". YES!!! Finally Tadej sees it's more fun to speak the truth rather than "day by day" or "km by km" like two weeks ago. He needs to keep speaking with this same confidence.
Honestly its not even confidence with a question like that. Its like why should he be because he could crash twice in the tt before enough of that 5:45 lead is eaten up to start worrying.
I think that he was so surprised by the stupidity of the question, that he couldn't think of a humble answer.
He answered it like the hyper-predator that he is, he *knows* his “prey” also, My sense is that he genuinely respects Vingegaard, and realized the reaction was not how what he’d like to express about Jonas… so he nicely back peddled and brought it back to the specifics of re-gaining 6 minutes at this point in the tour.
@@appearance8932 I think he answered like that because it's common sense. It doesn't even have anything to do with him or Vindey. It would be like asking if Uran can still get a podium because carapaz is bad at TTs, it's just a question that isn't possible anymore, unless he crashes very badly, which is like sure anyone can crash out, you could ask that of every rider every day
didn't age well, did it?
Pogacar, man, I think we are witnessing the early years of one of the greats. How awesome!
I'm in awe of Castroviejo
Yeah he has really performed well this year. Unfortunately, his performance has made it apparent that Porte should hang up the jersey and retire.
Me too ever since movistar I know a lot of guys on tt now get in tough position but he was first I ever saw do such an aero posture. He was already good at movistar although my guess is he worked hard with ineos to really perfect that posture. He does it on long courses like Olympics hes incredible. Strange observation he looks more like Alberto to me every year resemblance to me is so strong: ). Maybe just me but I always think it🙂. He's been really good a really long time and doesn't seem to be slowing a bit.
Pierre Latour was going for the Souvenir Jacques Goddet at the top of the Tourmalet, which is why he was sprinting to get over the top first, as it has quite a lot of prize money attached to it and I think that he got to stand on the podium at the end of the day as well, so it also meant exposure for the team and the sponsors. Not actually a bad idea, considering that he wasn’t going to win the stage and he’s nowhere in the polka dot jersey competition, so he just went over the top in first and then probably didn’t want to take any risks on the descent, so he just went back to the peloton to recover and sat in for as long as possible after going full gas on the Tourmalet.
Thx!
$5,000 prize money
He did zip up for sponsor before summit so you have to be spot on.
Interesting, thanks. I never look into the intermediate prizes.
No wonder. Thanks for the explanation
yeah yeah pogacar is great and dominant and all. but best of all are those glasses. thats just free speed, they look epic!
Agreed, i really like them
@David Burnside Scicon I think
Tadej is bad-ass, BUT bear in mind that Vingegaard threw almost two minutes !! waiting for Roglic when he was still his aid earlier in the Tour. So he's spent a lot of time and energy before being let loose. Just saying :-)
Almost two minutes? I thought it was 55 seconds.
lol Froome looks almost like a full natty bruh next to these guys
Maybe we judged Chris Froome and his 6.1 watts per kilo too harshly.
Damn LR, this is a pro recap. Visuals, information, music... Splendid!
Pogacar toying with everyone during the whole Tour de France would be an even better Title...the dude just has no competition at this point in time...
pity Prinoz went down early
@@zarrow50 true...Roglic might have been the one really being a threat...
Cause the best in the world aren't there.. except for himself obviously
easy to toy everyone with the good medication
@@grosporcvolant Have you ever said that about Sagan?
Another terrific edit, and summary--thank you! I watch the full stages, but these are always like dessert! I had thought that it would be a long time before we saw another Grand Tour rider of Froome's caliber, so it seems crazy to say already that Pogacar looks like he may be the most complete 3-week rider ever. He seems to have more tools than Froome, Armstrong, and Indurain ... it's probably not fair to go back to Hinault and Merckx as the racing then was so different. But for all his physical gifts, it seems his biggest advantage is his calm determination under enormous pressure. And he is a boy. Long may he reign.
Thanks LR your commentary and humour always appreciated. The bit of zen I like is that at this point Cav will win the GJ and the Lanterne Rouge.
LR... thanks for the coverage..
Dang that intro was superb. LR and LRCP now an essential viewing routine..
Vingegaard looks so strong!
And the future told hov strong
GOATED for playing the opening clip
The King 👑 of Kommentary leads us through the amazing story of the King 👑 Of The Tour!!
I’d love to see a 2020 Tour revisit in light of what we know now about Tadej’s prowess. He was an afterthought on an also-ran team last year - quietly surfing wheels up climbs, “animating the race” if anything, never a favorite or a contender… until he won. It would be interesting to see if there’s a way to reverse engineer any race strategy out of that result, given what we are seeing this year.
"Looking at his bike computer telling him he's about to blow up" - wahahahahha
"Are you worried about Vingegaard"?....😆 Looks increduously and answers "Why should I be worried..."? Smooth 👊
Gonna be legend
Made it look easy. Phrase. Comes to mind
It’s a shame we didn’t get another great TJV and UAE battle this year, but I’ll take it for this hilarious interview
Amazing Tadej, il love him
I think Pogacar's comment responding to the question asking if it was a game to him was because he didn't quite have the same understanding as the interviewer (and us). I got the impression he said it was like a game because *that's simply what all sports ultimately are* - and he understands this, so his outlook on his job is to have fun and do as well as he can. and that's going rather well, so he is very happy about that.
It's a pleasure to win, it makes you forget how hard it was to get there...
Pogacar riding Rim Brakes up the mountains best part of this Tour lol
I don’t think Roglic or Bernal would have beaten Pogacar this year, but it would have been nice to see them try-they are the only riders in his league.
Well this comment didnt age as well as thought ;)
Beastmode on the Tourmalet
Best intro you ever had
Darkness my old friend; GG Enric was so savage :D
Hello darkness my old friend. Love it.
Losing 6 minutes in TT - Pogacar - you’re just teasing the reporters - you’re going to put 6 minutes into your lead aren’t you? You bad boy… 🚴♂️
Throwing shade at Roglic? xD
Sepp wins 15 and keeps his leader in connection with Tadej pulling for 3k -- bonus points and money for the Durango Kid. Tadej is at another level and had this tour sown up before it started!
watching this after col de la loze 23 he should be worried :D
Tadej Pogacar is a BOSS! Love it. This cat is going to take many grand tours in the next 5-10 years if he stays healthy & avoids major incidents.
By incidents you mean positive test?
@@involuntarysoul3867 have you seen the anti doping control 🤦♂️
@@gamma_dablam you mean the type of doping control that missed every Russia olympic athletes? There is no such thing as anti-doping
@@gamma_dablam The testing is basically useless, still to this day. Pogacar at 22 making the rest of the peloton look like fat dads on a Sunday ride, best climber AND best TTer, sprinting up mountains with “no chain.” Yeah bud, sure he’s clean. Sure he is. Sorry, but I don’t believe in miracles, certainly not in this sport.
@@baTonkaTruck Exactly...
Amazing intro
Soo just to make sure...they were pedalling up hill...and my phone wasn't upside down while watching 🙃🤔
Cav: YESSSS! 💚🎉
Tadej , A demigod among mortal men !
a beast
Yes, for sure I’m worried about loosing 6min in the TT tomorrow 🤪🤪🤪
It's insane how good Pogacar is. Two tours ago I didn't know his name, now he's already a legend. Unless he doping lol
Good to see O'Connor's legs holding up well over the long haul and holding on to his place. Carapaz itt blow up? We can dream. Kelderman might be having the same dream though : )
I really wish Roglic was still in the Tour and in good shape. Imagine the fireworks we would have gotten yesterday and today if there was someone who could really challenge Pogacar instead of just being happy to follow his wheel. (Only downside would be that Vingegaard wouldn't have done that well, but he would still have done some great things)
Right now i think only bernal has a chance to challenge pogacar. Hopefully they face each other on the next year Tour
Imagine Jumbo with Tony Martin, and, uh, whats his name, Tom Dumou-something, pulling with Sepp, Primo, Vindy and Wout. Whatuppp...have to hand out more than one yellow jersey for that...
@@BOYDDAWLER Dumoulin!
@@renatotamborino5777 they will met at this year Vuelta. Pog has the plan to go there, as well Bernall. Rog didn’t plan to go there, but it can change, since he abandoned tdf and now TJV need some win somewhere
@@renatotamborino5777 i dont think so pog can sprint and good tt. Bernal cannot spirnt and only fair tt. Roglic can only come close to pog becuse roglic can also sprint and have a good tt
Last time I saw a rider this dominant and toying with the Peleton it Lance Armstrong. Hope he is clean as we can’t “afford” another scandal in cycling.
Weak field. If Contador didn't have Schleck he would have done the same.
Looking at poga he has an excellent cycling physiques and the competition this year has crashed or is simply just too old 🤔 I think , so he's ended up a clear winner . There is a cloud with the teams still, operation alderglass. Infact a few of the team directors and managers still have very unsavoury records . Poga team uae team director in his career was caught taking epo , and other stuff
He has only just turned 22, how good will be when he grows up?
La Veulta with Pog, Rog, and Bernal should be a banger.
Are they all going?
@@telmolicious I guess so, depending on how beat up Roglic is.
@@Symbioticism They all have confirmed they are going. The director of Jumbo confirmed today that Primoz is going to La Vuelta.
@@Carlos_GM. Excellent!
@@telmolicious yep, Pidcock and A.Yates will also be there and apparently Landa might be there as well.
It can be a little unfair to read into comments made in an athlete's 2nd/3rd/4th language. Pog kinda seemed to regret saying 'why should I be worried' immediately
True, he didn't mean it in a disrespectful way.
But these idiot reporters and their stupid questions, to merely drum up fake news and drama , really DESERVES a little disrespect. The guy hasn't even caught his breath yet and they waste his time with their utterly asinine questions. Its almost like it's the first stage race they've ever watched! If you get the chance to interview a champion, you ought to come up with a somewhat intelligent query. I guess I wouldn't make a very professional champion! I'd probably simply laugh and give him the silent treatment. It not hard to realize why some athletes seem so shy and socially challenged in interviews. I can't stand the freakin press.
best intro
great intro
mauro gianetti just has a way of molding talent, what can ya say. hopefully the vuelta is a little more interesting than the tour and giro. gaudu this last week has been a big "if only." i don't think he could win a grand tour, but definitely challenge for the podium on a hillier course
Nice video, but I wouldn't call this Toying. He didn't really drop Carapaz but beat him at the line (which is to be expected). Great climbing by the three of them.
Really good color commentary. You’d be working for NBC if Bob Roll wasn’t so damn good too.
I heard the boys in the car when Mas attacked, "Venga! Venga! Venga!"
Cav Cav Cav!
Revisiting these clips purely for how gangster pogačar is in TDF. Big kid in the sandpit type shit. Let’s fkn go 2022 TDF
Calling an alaphilipe attack tomorrow on the last climbs before finish. Forces other teams to work for the sprint whilst DQS can let him go solo. Plays to strength of cav and alaphillipe
That aged very well
Yep, still aging very well
Perhaps I missed one your updates @Lanterne Rouge, what happened with your arms?
Pogacars paleo diet kicking in hard
Would love to see peak Bernal vs Pog.
Both are great riders but pog is better climbs better can sprint and better tt
Trust me you don't want it. It would be ugly for Bernal. lol
I swear I bet TP could try to do a solo breakaway to win stage 21 if he really wanted to
I love him, he's charismatic and a beast (maybe doped). Can be a true ambassador for cycling.
Hot sauce
Tadej = When you find the cheat/god mode in a video game.
Attack is the best defence!
That response at the beginning was very... "Armstrongian"
What was ineos doing? They pulled Pogacar to the polka dot Jersey they should have let the break have the win
4:15 He was not given other glasses in return for being thrown into the crowd of fans?
Why is it that a small production group makes better highlights than everyone else?
Too many woke millennials ruin everything
Next Cannibal
rim brakes for the win!
Smart guy! When victory is at stake, he isn't fool to risk a mechanical with those damned discs. Long live RIM BRAKES!
So you need a team for flats as they reduce drag for you but how do team mates help you going up hill? Sorry if it's a dumb question, just started watching cycling last year and I haven't found a video explaining the dynamics (rather than rules) of team racing. Is it even still a team sport with this guy, I mean in another video the guy says Pogacar doesn't even need a team. Also, and I'm not implying anything, is Pogacar dominating both climbing and time trials really akin to if the same guy, with the same physique, dominated both 100m and 1.500 m in track and field?
He should take the TT sertand try to win. When Alaphillipe wonnin yellow… it was better to me than winning the whole race. That was so f@&!ng cool