OFFICIAL: Tadej Pogacar leads UAE Team Emirates - XRG at 2025 Tour de France in search of victory number 4
CyclingFriday, 27 June 2025 at 10:51
UAE Team Emirates - XRG is one of the teams that had it's Tour de France lineup planned already since the very start of the year, and they will arrive in July without injuries messing up their plans. This Friday morning they have confirmed the lineup that will be riding in support of Tadej Pogacar as he looks to win the Tour once again.
Pogacar will of course be headlining the team and comes in as the man to beat for the overall classification. Besides his dominant victory last year, this season the Slovenian has been on incredible form, riding through the classics to win several of them - whilst winning both the UAE Tour and Criterium du Dauphiné, both stage-races he started this year.
At the Dauphiné he faced his main rivals for the Tour and his pristine form saw him put in a dominant ride that asserts him as the absolute favourite for the Grand Boucle. With 99 wins in his palmarès, he is also likely to reach victory number 100 during the race.
He will be backed up in the mountains by João Almeida, recent winner of the Tour de Suisse - as well at Itzulia Basque Country and Tour de Romandie - who was already fourth in last year's edition whilst supporting the Slovenian. Adam Yates, Pavel Sivakov and Marc Soler will be crucial support men in the mountains to battle against a very strong Visma.
Tim Wellens and Jhonatan Narváez will be handymen for all terrains, but as seen in the recent Dauphiné, they can be very valuable when attacking the race outside the high mountains and instead focusing on explosive racing. As was the case last year, Nils Politt comes in as road captain and the most important support rider for the flat stages.
UAE Team Emirates - XRG for Tour de France:
João Almeida
Jhonatan Narváez
Nils Politt
Tadej Pogacar
Pavel Sivakov
Marc Soler
Tim Wellens
Adam Yates
João Almeida
Jhonatan Narváez
Nils Politt
Tadej Pogacar
Pavel Sivakov
Marc Soler
Tim Wellens
Adam Yates
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We’re ready to chase a 4th @LeTour title with @TamauPogi leading the charge 🇸🇮🔥
— @UAE-TeamEmirates (@TeamEmiratesUAE) June 27, 2025
Here’s our lineup for #TDF2025:
🇵🇹 @JooAlmeida98
🇪🇨 @NarvaezJho
🇩🇪 @PolittNils
🇸🇮 @TamauPogi
🇫🇷 @PavelSivakov
🇪🇸 @solermarc93
🇧🇪 @Tim_Wellens
🇬🇧 @AdamYates7
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- pogačar’s ability to raise his level mid career really is just staggering. he’s gotten SO much stronger since the last time he and vingegaard faced each other both healthy. it’s kinda sad, but jonas’ career is really just OVER now. i’m actually anticipating something similar happening to mvdp next year. i’ve mentioned once before this so sorry for repetition, but i really expect pog to up his level again to make sure that he never loses roubaix or msr again either, just like he did when he got sick of losing to mathieu at flanders. i don’t think mvdp can improve enough to ever win there again against pogačar, but pogi can clearly find more and more watts when he wants or needs them. he also never fatigues at all, which is a great advantage he has over mathieu, who definitely feels it when he completely empties his tank one weekend during the classics season, then pays for it the following week. i think the only question mark left is whether or not pogačar can get to a point where he’s dominating bunch sprints, too. i realize that sounds insane and impossible, and i am half joking. half. this is a level of dominance that i think will ultimately exceed almost any other athlete in any sport. others come to mind, like alexander karelin, the olympic wrestler. but pog is like karelin as a middleweight who moves up and down in divisions and just dominates everywhere. or like a michael jordan who can ALSO completely dominate in the paint as a center. just staggering. the only questions left in cycling have to do with how much better pogačar will decide to get.OCexile25-07-2025
- What about a fine for visma for break checking with no one in front ,knowing pogacar was behind them ?captmike25-07-2025
- The fines are a money grab for the pockets of the tour organizerscaptmike25-07-2025
- Jonas is maxed out, you can have a solid team but if you can't drop the main protagonist then you lose. I give him credit for believing in himself and doing his best, and let's be honest, he's better than every other stage racer except for Tadej. If you don't race much in the lead up to July it's hard to do anything special in the Tour, no matter how good you are.awp24-07-2025
- If that's what it is. Seems more like a pathetic attempt at mind games.Renz24-07-2025
- Of course Jonas's chances of winning are mostly over, barring a Pogi crash. But of course Jonas isn't going to say that until Pogi victory is truly inevitable. Just like Pogi in 2022 - not admitting defeat. Shouldn't we admire rather than mock the fighting spirit?mobk24-07-2025
- 4 minutes, some weird visma tactics and a very strong Pogacar … well yea it is over.ChrisBe24-07-2025
- Jonas loses every time Pogacar goes one to one with him. Then says afterwards the race isn't over. He has been transformed into a PR machine.Renz24-07-2025
- Really unbiased choice of words for the title, lol! Here's another alternative: Pogacar hangs to dear life and UAE exploded after another brilliant strategy day from Visma and best ever performance from Vingegaard! And only lose miserable 10 seconds to the leaderLobz7724-07-2025
- Maybe you could just crawl under a rock instead?mobk24-07-2025