TakeWorlds4 weeks ago
Pellizzari expects the Montreal Worlds road race to blow up early. Without Pogačar to dictate the pace, every contender defaults to attacking as if they were him. «Everyone thinks they are Pogačar. But there is only one Pogačar.»
Pellizzari built his pre-Worlds training around four-minute climb repeats on the Montreal circuit, not long grinding efforts — prep for a race decided by repeated attacks, not a controlled tempo. He skipped the 2026 Vuelta a España entirely to focus on this, going through Italian fall races instead, winning Giro della Toscana, finishing second at Memorial Marco Pantani and sixth at Coppa Sabatini. His read isn't that the race got more open — it's that the peloton's habits change shape when nobody can impose the pace Pogačar used to.
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