Here we go 🇫🇷! We're excited to reveal our lineup for @LeTour #TDF2023: 🇩🇰 @mikkelbbjerg 🇦🇹 @gro_felix 🇳🇴 @VSLaengen 🇵🇱 @majkaformal 🇸🇮 @TamauPogi 🏆🏆 🇪🇸 @solermarc93 🇮🇹 @MATTEOTRENTIN 🇬🇧 @AdamYates7 #UAETeamEmirates #WeAreUAE
Tadej Pogacar ready for Tour de France: "We are going there to put on a good show and of course with the aim of victory"
CyclingMonday, 26 June 2023 at 12:03
Tadej Pogacar has been confirmed to race the Tour de France this morning as UAE Team Emirates revealed their lineup. He is coming in with a team built around him and with the goal of winning, and he has shown nothing but good signs over the past few weeks.
“The Tour is one of the biggest events in world sport and we’re very pleased and excited to be a part of it. As a team we have worked so hard to prepare and everything is where it needs to be, we have a very good group," Pogacar said in a press release. "There will be some serious competitors but that will always be the case in the biggest races. We are going there to put on a good show and of course with the aim of victory.”
With the likes of Adam Yates and Rafal Majka in the mountains, Mikkel Bjerg and Matteo Trentin for the flat days, it's safe to say the Slovenian will be well protected all throughout the race. Pogacar has suffered wrist fractures in a crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège which kept him off the road for a whole month. He returned to the bike in late May and then had altitude camps at Sierra Nevada and Sestrière.
In between he also explored some Tour de France stages, however his best tests for form came at the national championships. Comfortably however he won both the time-trial - with over five minutes of advantage over second place - and the road race yesterday on a hilly course. He will be the big favourite to win the Tour de France alongside Jonas Vingegaard.
“The team and I decided to immediately separate the wheat from the chaff and thin out the peloton," Pogacar said after his win last afternoon. "It was quite selective and only the WorldTour riders remained. When I attacked, it was still a long way to the finish.” He joined up with Luka Mezgec after a long-distance attack, and then dropped the Jayco AlUla rider on the final lap.
“Luka and I wondered every kilometer whether it was wise to continue with just two, but we worked well together. In the end we managed to stay ahead. I am very happy with this victory. It is a nice boost towards the Tour that starts next week," he concluded.
Read also
claps 1visitors 959
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- The point is obvious: MVDP can beat Tadej on CX/Road and Tadej cannot. What is so hard to understand???averagecyclist22-12-2024
- Funny... one doper enabler backing the doper he enabled ! Who would have guessed.frieders322-12-2024
- Wouldn’t be here if I wasn’tMistermaumau22-12-2024
- So you're bored, got itvappaxbipmv22-12-2024
- Does everything need to have a point? If so, 99% of the internet should be wiped away. In relation to recent articles with quotes from other riders, my statement points to the ever more obvious reason why they are asked to comment on the effect of his return.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- If anyone would be interested enough to launch an official survey as to who out of these three should shut up, I don’t know who’d win but I’m due Boonen would be way back in 3rd place.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- And your point is what exactly?vappaxbipmv22-12-2024
- MVDP dominates this sport even more than Pogaçar dominates road racing. Also he can beat Tadej on the road quite regularly, the opposite is unlikely.Mistermaumau22-12-2024
- If you listen to team radios you'll hear each DS telling their riders to ride faster, fight their way to the front, and all occupy the same 8 places.Sweep22-12-2024
- You're talking about a sport where equipment and clothing is measured in grams.Sweep22-12-2024