"There are three things left for me – the Giro, Vuelta and World Championships" - Tadej Pogacar faces Tour de France pressure but looks towards other big goals
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Tadej Pogacar has stated his love to the 2024 Tour de France route however after many years of focus into the Grand Boucle and two consecutive second places to Jonas Vingegaard, he starts to eye and think of a plan that will see him prepare for races such as the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a Espana.
"The Tour is the most important race in cycling. Nothing compares to it. For the sponsors they just want to win the Tour. Everybody knows it in the whole world, even in non cycling. Other races cannot compare to the Tour," Pogacar told FloBikes. "From now, after my career, I would like to be world champion as well. I won a lot of races, big ones, I won more or less all the Monuments that I can win, the Tour de France two times. There are three things left for me – the Giro, Vuelta and World Championships. It's a dream and a challenge. We'll see in ten years what's going to be."
Having already won the Tour twice, winning it a third time won't be career-changing but the Slovenian is very keen on adding new races to his palmarès. After the Tour des Flanders where he stunned the competition this year, it would be safe to say that Milano-Sanremo, the World Championships and the other two Grand Tours are part of that list. The latter three he mentioned specifically, logically as the most likely to achieve throughout his career due to his natural climbing abilities.
However despite this, the Tour seems to be the main goal for the 2024 season. "I actually like this parcours. The designers do a great job every year. They try to spice it up with different things, like this year with the gravel and the last stage time trial," he says of the route revealed in Paris last week. Although Jumbo-Visma is heading to the Tour with their mind on a third Jonas Vingegaard victory, it is certain that Pogacar will not have thrown in the towel when it comes to climbing alongside the Dane in July.
"They try to spice it up so it's not always the same. But in the end, you always come to the conclusion that it's three weeks and you need hard and easy stages. Everybody is tired in any case, no matter the parcours. If I would design it then I'd probably do something similar to this year."
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- More to the point, it isn't his remaining goal.Renz08-11-2026
- lol yeahmij08-11-2026
- I know, their headlines can be so misleading. Pidcock had a great season with 5 wins. and some solid 2nds. no reason to take away from that with a fake headline.mij08-11-2026
- You can clearly see the the posture change from slightly sitting to again out of the saddle while changing of gears in the video of the sprintabstractengineer08-11-2026
- He has already beaten Pogi twice in the TDF. the achievement is over. He cannot beat Pogi now and he only has a few years left at the top. Win Giro and compete in the TDF, maximise palmares.abstractengineer08-11-2026
- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
- How can you use a photo post incident to judge the incident itself (which is not hard to find if you’re prepared to invest the same amount of time in searching as writing that comment? It’s harsh but technically right even though this or worse is not always sanctioned in every race. The two things that went against MS (who unfortunately for her would still have won without making her mistake) are that it was not a bunch sprint where there could have been an overlooked incident or mitigating circumstances explaining a deviation. Everything was focused on just those 2, Schreiber was riding beautifully balanced which made her sudden deviation look unnatural stroke as if it could have been in some part intentional whilst she was slowly drifting ever closer towards the barrier to a point that would have reached obstruction level. In her defence, it might have been the realisation she was heading towards that that made her react suddenly and caused the deviation involuntarily. In any case, congratulations to her for the ride of her life, in people’s minds she will be credited for it.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
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