"Maybe he’ll want to do all three Grand Tours" - Rafal Majka on Tadej Pogacar's aims for 2024

Tadej Pogacar was unable to reclaim the Maillot Jaune at the 2023 Tour de France and as rumours grow about the Slovenian potentially changing targets to the Giro d'Italia next year, his UAE Team Emirates teammate, Rafal Majka has weighed in.

“I don’t know, you need to ask Tadej. Maybe he’ll want to do all three Grand Tours,” remarked the 34-year-old Polish rider when quizzed on the potential aims of his team leader in 2024 by GCN. As mentioned, many say the Giro d'Italia route looks perfect for Pogacar and Majka admits it could be a favourable route. “I’ve not looked at it but somebody says it’s actually pretty nice with a lot of time trials. Of course, I think there’s six or seven really hard stages, it should be nice.”

in 2024 however, the potential general classification challenge looks to have grown even tougher with Pogacar's fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic departing the all-conquering Jumbo-Visma for pastures new at BORA - hansgrohe.

“Since Roglič has changed teams, it’s one more team and [it’s] even better. It’s not only UAE and Jumbo-Visma but also Bora now maybe. It’s pretty interesting to race with these guys," Majka analyses. “It would be nice if we could’ve won the [one of the] Grand Tours but next season we will change that. It’s cycling, we know it’s hard to win. Next year, we try to win a Grand Tour.”