Tadej Pogacar 'looking forward' to 2025 return at UAE Tour: "The important thing is we put a good show"
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Tadej Pogacar was recently spotted scouting the Tour of Flanders (which he will race) and Paris-Roubaix (which we don't know if he will race). It is a few last days of European training before he kicks off his 2025 campaign at the UAE Tour (February 17-23).
“I’m really excited and motivated to start the season. Luckily I can say that I had a pretty smooth preparation for this first part of the season and I’m feeling good and ready to go," previews the world champion confidently in a pre-race press release posted on the official website of UAE Team Emirates - XRG. "It’s been a few years now since I’ve raced UAE Tour and I must say I’m looking forward to it."
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"I’m confident to lead the team and I will have strong support around me, both from my teammates and from all the support we get from the fans in UAE whenever we race there. The important thing is we put a good show and really push to win the title in the home race," continues UAE Team Emirates - XRG's leader, Pogacar. "Usually the key stages will be the time trial and then the two mountain finishes at Jebel Jais and Jebel Hafeet but if we get wind on the flat days it can also play a factor so we need to be ready for anything. I think from a spectators’ point of view it will be a really nice race and I can’t wait to start.”
“It’s no secret that this race is one of our key objectives of the year. The aim will be quite clear: to try and take the title which has eluded us the past two years," adds the team's Sports Manager, Joxean Matxin. "We’re on home soil and we know that all eyes will be on us but it’s something we’ll use as further motivation in the race. Pogacar will be our clear leader and we hope for a strong team performance in the TT and for Molano in the sprints. Every stage is very important in this race.”
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- This from the man that almost destroyed the “essence” of cycling.Djs01-04-2025
- Regarding one point in the article: Vingegaard and Pogacar raced against each other at Monuments in the past - Il Lombardia and Liege, from 2020 to 2022. Pogacar's results are 3, 1, 1, and 1, while Vingegaard's are 84, 28, 14, and 16, respectively in the same races. But Vingegaard hasn't raced a Monument since 2022.RidesHills01-04-2025
- What, no Jay, Jonas. Remco, Primoz, etc.? Hope Cras doesn’t need an H this year.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Interesting, now’s the chance for all those who were grumpy about or against paying for subscriptions. But, if the pay is half decent one of girls from the women’s peloton might beat you to it ;-)Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- In those days the Tour was like Paris-Roubaix 3 weeks running :-)tMistermaumau01-04-2025
- The Dutch are a popular sporting target for foreign criticismMistermaumau01-04-2025
- Completely agree, and that’s in cases where the team even reaches the rider before he/she decides to get up by themself and start chasing. No protocol or rule will solve this perfectly, this is not a sport with a referee putting everything on hold whilst checks are made.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Is it just me or are the opinions of retired pros from certain parts of Northern Europe becoming increasingly Pythonesque? “In our day we had sandpaper chamois and barbed wire for bar tape when we rode Paris Roubaix, it used to be a proper race”……..I’m not even that big a Pogacar fan and I hope he does it just to shut them up.Jezla01-04-2025
- True, but then we've always known that real safety isn’t an objective, just enough for the facade not to crumble.Mistermaumau01-04-2025
- Oh, this sounds more spicy than I thought. I didn't watch the event.
KerisVroom01-04-2025