Date set for Tadej Pogacar 2027 schedule news - UAE leader expected to outline goals as Paris-Roubaix and Vuelta a Espana among unconfirmed goals
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Tadej Pogacar will have to wait until 18 December to clear up some of the uncertainty surrounding his 2027 schedule. UAE Team Emirates XRG will once again hold its pre-season training camp in Benidorm, where the Slovenian is expected to speak to the media and outline his goals for the new season.
The UAE team will once again make its customary visit to the Alicante town, which has served as its base for preparing the coming season in recent years.
Beyond the first training sessions and sporting plans, the camp often brings some of the biggest news about the ambitions of the team’s leading riders.
Pogacar has used previous training camps to reveal much of his racing programme. According to Marca, his appearance on 18 December is especially significant, as several decisions about his participation in the Grand Tours and his main international objectives are still unresolved.
Among the outstanding questions, a possible return to the Vuelta a España stands out. The Slovenian has yet to complete the set of Grand Tour victories, and the Spanish race is one of the most appealing options for 2027 after his last participation ended prematurely following a crash.

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That withdrawal left unfinished business for Pogacar. The Spanish Grand Tour is the only one of the three that is missing from his palmarès, giving the UAE Team Emirates XRG rider a strong reason to consider lining up in 2027.
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Recent reports from his camp suggest he is more likely to ride the Vuelta than the Giro d’Italia. That would put the Spanish race among the priorities in his schedule, although no final decision has been made on how he will divide his efforts between the season’s major races.
Benidorm will be the setting where Pogacar begins to clear up the uncertainty. On 18 December, the Slovenian will have the chance to set out his ambitions for 2027 and, in particular, clarify whether the Vuelta a España will be the major missing target in a career that already boasts almost every major achievement in cycling.

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- Theirs a few on the team who may be able to step up/progress to Grand Tour wins but that'll come, not in '27 tho 🤷 - Roglic mayve appealed on a 2 yr for immediate results but other riders would be set aside and the existing riders wouldn't like that
leedorney11-11-2026 - Say hi to your orange orangutan president, who wears diapers.PogiSloFans11-11-2026
- Hey @santiagobenites, that's why @leedorney is wrong. He doesn't see the bigger picture.PogiSloFans11-11-2026
- the rot started in 2022 with Bernal's accident Signings- Just super helpers and non winners. Foss GC Leaders - Reliance on injured Bernal and retiring G Talents - On domestique duty dont learn how to win. Sprinters - No top Sprinter signed Tactics- Outdated Save the leader, trains. Just money badly spent even though there were opportunitiesabstractengineer11-11-2026
- Whole team is a mess. They don't have any really top tier "podium lock" GT riders, and they don't really have a solid classics block. Just a bunch of spare parts. I don't know why any rider would go for them either. Feels like old mate with the money is likely to pull out at any given moment, and that doesn't bode well for their ability to jack up their budget and say "let's buy half a dozen shit-hot talents to ride support/lead our team" - which is what they probably need to do to get competitive again.wrsty11-11-2026
- Pogi is a Goat. He has power numbers that are once in a century. Jonas is a once in a generation, He has power numbers 1 level lower than Pogi. Even if both are equal which they were before 2024, Pogi would have won on sprint bonuses. For Jonas to win he has to crack Pogi, which is impossible. Therefore Giro is a good option considering the TT in TDF. He cannot win but if something happens to Pogi , he should be still in a position to win the TDF, Giro or no Giro, because the others are a level below him.abstractengineer11-11-2026
- for what?frieders311-11-2026
- Blah blah blah!frieders311-11-2026
- Where Merckx just rode every single race he could and won all the time, Hinault won less often (percentage wise) because he was more judicious in what he raced. His palmares are nuts. He had amazing rivals, one to start his career and another to end it in the grand tours. His classics were solid. What sets him apart from Merckx and Pogačar are that he basically dabbled in the classics while the other two love(d) them. I used to compare Pogačar to Hinault for his grand tour record and occasional classics win, until I realized that the comparison was wrong. Pogačar loves the classics - ah, the memory of his reaction to finishing fourth in a 2 person sprint in Flanders in ‘22: utter domination in any one day race since then, even when he doesn’t win. Hinault lived for the grand tours and I don’t think anyone else will ever reach his record. 10 wins in 13 attempts? Good lord. An amazing rider. Wish there was more footage to watch.RidesHills11-11-2026
- I had no idea about that either.
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