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There was confusion abound in cycling this week, as the Tour de Suisse organisers struggled to count how many wins Tadej Pogačar has achieved, while Michael Woods still doesn't know for sure whether he's won the Canadian National Gravel Championships.
Some things are more certain, however. Chris Froome is back at the Tour de France and Thibaut Pinot's Airbnb is officially open for business.
The numbers don't add up 🎂
"Now that is what I call a coffee ride," is how Tadej Pogačar captioned his winning 70 km solo breakaway move to take the opening stage of the Tour de Suisse and open up a two minute lead over Richard Carapaz and four minutes over the rest of the field.
Pogačar has dealt with business (i.e. ticking off the Tour de Suisse from his stage race collection) at the first available opportunity and will now presumably be able to take the rest of the week easy (who are we kidding).
Bizarrely, the next morning before the start of stage two, race organisers got Pogačar up on stage to present him with a cake for achieving 100 career wins.
The confusing part, as pointed out by CyclingNews' James 'Statto' Moultrie, is that Pogačar achieved this feat on stage four of last year's Tour de France, and has won 18 times since then.
Not sure how this miscommunication happened. Maybe it's an odd way of trying to confuse the Slovenian so that he'll let his GC lead slip and we'll get an actual bike race this week.
But judging by the flexibility Pogačar has shown on the bike at the race, that seems unlikely. Am I alone in being mystified as to how one can get their arm to bend that way?
Sorry you're not a winner 👏
Michael Woods attacked on the second to last climb of the 123 km-long Canadian National Gravel Championships before soloing to the finish, admitting afterwards that he'd had to go deeper than ever before. But it turns out that Michael Woods may not have won after all.
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