Seventies star says Tadej Pogačar’s long range attacks would never have been allowed in his day

Tadej Pogačar is not as good as Eddy Merckx thinks he is – that’s the message from seventies ace and Merckx contemporary Roger De Vlaeminck.

Nicknamed ‘Mr Paris-Roubaix’ on account of his four victories in the cobbled Classic, De Vlaeminck told Belgian outlet Nieuwsblad that there was no way Pogačar would have been allowed to go on 90km rampages in his day.