“Methodology actor or simply all in on biking?”: Pogačar celebrates with a vegetable as a trophy after profitable a crit race; Cameron Mason and Zoe Bäckstedt shine in gnarly European cyclocross champs; “How is that is an okay cycle lane?” + extra on the stay weblog

Greatest bicycle owner? Perhaps (Vélo d’Or can I please have a phrase?). However is Tadej Pogaçar additionally a terrific actor? I say for positive!

“Does he know this does not rely as a win?” pic.twitter.com/5gU24vajyj

— Dan Deakins (@DanDeakins) November 5, 2023

This was him after beating Sepp Kuss within the Saitama criterium race. Oh, and if you have not observed but, possibly zoom in on his, erm, trophy.

Yeah, that is a root vegetable wrapped in a plastic movie which Tadej Pogaçar, winner of two Tour de France yellow jerseys, is hoisting up within the air after a season which noticed him win virtually half the races he contested final yr.

Who’s going to inform him… Anybody?

And for these of you questioning, the Japanese criterium — nothing greater than an exhibition race with predetermined outcomes — was additionally contested by the likes of Peter Sagan and Mark Cavendish, who completed third and fourth respectively.

Oh, and there was Chris Froome too, contemporary off the data that he had been driving his bike which had a set-up “centimetres” off from his usual set-up during his Tour de France winning years.

> Not so marginal losses: Chris Froome reveals recent bike set-up was “centimetres” apart from Team Sky days due to “oversight”

Amidst all of the showboating and revelling, Pogačar revealed that he is been having fun with his Tour de France rivalry with Jonas Vingegaard, who has now crushed him two years in a row, and it might go down as one thing for “the historical past books”, with the pair sharing the final 4 titles between them. Perhaps our era’s Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor?