Mauro Gianetti on Tadej Pogacar: "When he races, he wants to win"

Tadej Pogacar is a born winner, and perhaps the most dominant rider in the current peloton. UAE Team Emirates are very satisfied with their leader, and Mauro Gianetti comments on Pogacar's ambitions and calendar decisions.

“We try that he does not do too many racing days, like last season when he finished the year with 54 racing days," Mauro Gianetti, manager of UAE Team Emirates, has said in a recent interview. "When he races, he wants to win and he has the physical condition to do it! So that's why it's important to choose his program and his calendar well."

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Sure enough the Slovenian has won virtually everywhere he raced this year - Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior, Vuelta a Andalucia, Paris-Nice and Tour of Flanders - whilst being a headliner and frequent attacker in those he didn't, at Milano-Sanremo and the E3 Saxo Classic. All this despite not having trained at altitude such as many of his rivals. The team is keen on supporting his goals and making the effort to win everywhere. They are also taking into consideration his freshness, so as to display his best level at the Tour de France.

He's essentially succeeded in his main spring goal which was Flanders, his third different monument win. However his spring has not yet ended, as he will tackle the Ardennes classics before beginning to focus on the summer. "Here, for the classics, there are still three big, long and difficult races, the Amstel, the Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. After that, he will have a long break before the Tour de France," Gianetti concluded.

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