Matej Mohoric - Blog Posts
graphic design is my passion. anyway MOHO BDAY!!!!!! 🫶🫶🫶
some random slovenian guys who definitely have no importance to the sport of cycling
Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia and UAE Team Emirates & Matej Mohorič of Slovenia and Bahrain Victorious prior to the 110th Tour de France 2023, Stage 20 a 133.5km stage from Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering on July 22, 2023 in Belfort, France. (Photos by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Matej Mohorič of Bahrain Victorious & Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates during the 114th Milano-Sanremo 2023 a 294km one day race from Abbiategrasso to Sanremo on March 18, 2023 in Abbiategrasso, Italy. (Photos by Marco Bertorello/Getty Images)
Mohorič, Pogačar and Mezgec with Roglič's number🥺 💛
Third-Place Playoff: Matej Mohorič v. Wout van Aert
Matej Mohorič Propaganda
Wout van Aert Propaganda
muddy wout. you agree
Look how pretty he is. Look how dad-shaped he is. Don’t make him sad.
I’m gonna be honest with you, I don’t think he’s pretty. But he’s human. He’s fierce. He never gives up. He comes back from having a rag stuck in his chain to freaking winning races. He comes back from giving it his all in pulling to… pull again and leave all of his leader’s adversaries behind. He may not have won much this year, but he still gave 125% and it was a joy to see.
And
Most importantly
He’s kind!
He has kind eyes. He is friend-shaped. He is generous with his teammates. You can tell that, while he’s focused on himself (as every and all athletes), he never forgets that he is not alone in this, and he honors the other cyclists both from his team and the peloton as a whole. He doesn’t leave people behind. He passes on victories to reward the efforts they put in for him in past races.
He has honor and courage and class and panache. So so much panache.
He is, truly, my favourite cyclist.
Semi-Finals, Match Two: Matej Mohorič v. Jonas Vingegaard
Matej Mohorič Propaganda
Jonas Vingegaard Propaganda
He is CUTE, he is SMOL, he has a CUTE NOSE and FRECKLES and EYES AS BLUE AS THE ENDLESS SKY---
OK no but seriously, he's amazing. As absurd as it can sound since this is one of the best riders in the world, he's always the underdog in people's minds. Somehow, no one ever thinks "OK I think Jonas is going to win this stage today", and when he does, they're like "OK he won but he still wasn't out of this world, it's because the others were having a bad day", and when he has a stellar day they're like "HE'S DOPING FOR SURE". It's like nothing he ever does is good enough and YET he doesn't give a fuck and keeps performing despite the pressure.
Being consistently good when everyone expects you to win is talent, but being consistently good when everyone hopes you'll lose is something else too.
And he's an incredible human being to boot. He's kind, he's compassionate, he's sensitive, he doesn't have a mean bone in him, he's affectionate, thoughtful. Remember that time during TdF 2022 when he asked Grischa to tell him if he could slow down at the end of the TT to let Wout win the stage? Yeah. He's that kind of guy.
More under the cut:
He's a crier. It's cute and it makes me want to hug him. He loves his family and he always has a good word for his rivals and he's humble and I relate so much to his introverted personality and he's a cinnamon roll and a cutie patootie. But when he puts on his sunglasses, he looks like A WAR MACHINE.
(but a cute one)
He got a lot of heat when he didn't wait for Sepp on the Angliru during this Vuelta, only the instructions of the team before that clusterfuck stage were to battle it out between them and he probably liked it even less than us because he wanted Sepp to win the Vuelta from the beginning.
And need I say anything about the absolute sportsmanship of this man? When he lost his balance in the Col of Spandelles, TdF 2022, Tadej didn't miss the opportunity and powered away from him, but when Tadej was the one who crashed two minutes later, he waited for him. HE WAITED FOR HIM.
And he made the sport all the better for it and gave us one of the finest images in cycling history.
if you like MvDP, consider that though in these days when van der Poel is showing up with a mullet, Jonas did long hair earlier and better.
though there has been a change of style
If you like WvA, consider that some of the BEST hug pictures only exist due to Jonas being the kind of teammate whom others want to hug AND eminently sized for hugs/lifts
(we've all seen this but we can look at it again)
He's got sportsmanship. He's got incredible skills. He's even a dad! Maybe he's not always good at smiling for the cameras but he can sure smile for his family
Most importantly, he's a TdF winner with the time trial of the year and he cannot ride his goddamn bike without hands without his body language screaming oh god someone help me
Quarter-Finals, Match Three: Matej Mohorič v. Mattias Skjelmose
Matej Mohorič Propaganda
Mattias Skjelmose Propaganda (submitted by poll-runner)
Personal: He’s a super lovely guy with an adorable smile, looks like an elf, likes a cheeky bit of gossip and has no filter, great friendship with Mads Pedersen.
One time he crashed and fell 15m down a ravine, climbed back up himself and yelled “I’m fine, just give me a new bike” which is just. Insane to me
Professional: He’s had a really interesting journey as a rider. He was on top of the world as a junior, rivalling Remco Evenepoel, but was a total dick. Then he got banned for doping because he took some contaminated dietary supplements. Came back a year later and then signed to Trek-Segafredo (much to the irritation of Mads Pedersen, who knocked on Mattias’ hotel room door and asked him why he should believe he had changed, but found himself pleasantly surprised by the type of guy Mattias now was) and now he’s thirteenth on the individual UCI ranking. Rouleur did a great article on him:
Round Two, Match Five: Mads Pedersen v. Matej Mohorič
Mads Pedersen Propaganda
Simply go read an interview, he is immensely entertaining, and also the sprint he did in the Bemer Cyclassics gave me an adrenaline high that changed my brain chemistry. He betrayed his danish nation by moving away to Switzerland for tax reasons, but he's very open about it at least. Is described by teammates as a good guy and wears many silly Lidl outfits.
Funniest guy in the peloton, like listen to any interview with him. Has a grand tour grand slam (a victory in each grand tour). Look at those thighs. Number six on UCI ranking. Speedy guy. Keeps it real. Doesn’t die in hills as much as other sprinters imo. Just vote the guy, he’s great
Matej Mohorič Propaganda
Round One, Match Ten: Matej Mohorič v. Cian Uijtdebroeks
Matej Mohorič Propaganda
No propaganda submitted.
Cian Uijtdebroeks Propaganda
No propaganda submitted.