The NY Times did a nice little comparison between Pogacar’s time up the Col du Tourmalet and 53,000 amateurs on Strava. (Video here). The below graphic gives a nice comparison between him and the 50th percentile time.
Those guys are so dang fast
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And bear in mind the riders that share their time up there are probably already the top 20% of cyclists / riders that go up.
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On a related topic, this feels like a cool opportunity for Strava. If you’re a pro, you would get a “Pro” tag similar to what the blue check used to be on Twitter. And then separate the KOMs by Pro and non-Pro. I’m sure the pros don’t care much but it would be nice to filter out the pros on KOMs and let amateurs go for and hold KOMs on iconic climbs.
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Would be easy to do, Strava already has the double red chevrons to flag pros
That would be cool. On the other hand, I have a top ten on a local climb and a pro has the kom. I feel it adds more kudos to my effort as it’s associated with him.
I’m realistic in my estimation that he is a much much better cyclist than than me (he’s won some GT stages) 
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