With cycling completed is Tadej Pogacar set to try his hand at new sport?
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Tadej Pogacar had one of the greatest individual seasons in cycling history in 2024, taking victory at a pair of Grand Tours, a duo of monuments, the World Championship road race in Zurich and other notable successes. With cycling now as good as completed, could the Slovenian be set for a sporting switch up?
Well, as the UAE Team Emirates leader begins to step up his preparation for the 2025 season as he takes on the challenge of trying to match his 2024 heroics, Pogacar has posted a curious update to his official Strava account.
"Cross-Country SKIING," Pogacar captions a post, showing off a more than 25km journey in his homeland of Slovenia, covering the distance in 1 hour, 43 minutes and 47 seconds, which corresponds to each kilometre being covered in just over four minutes. Certainly not the worst introduction to the sport ever seen.
Notably, Pogacar doesn't have too long to wait until his 2025 season gets underway. The UAE Team Emirates leader kicks off his campaign at his team's home race: the UAE Tour in February.
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- He would still be faster on the course riding his cyclocross bike than in his Lambo!Pogboom28-12-2024
- i love the spirit of any of these younger guys who will say out loud I WANT TO TRY TO FOLLOW MATHIEU. they know plenty well what that means. vanthourenhout, eli, lars and company have kinda been beaten into submission by years trying and failing to keep up with mvdp. i feel for them, seriously. but it’s great to see younger riders show up and take their turn, full of hope.OCexile28-12-2024
- The nice thing about World Tour cycling is it never goes the way you think it ill, haha. Tadej breaking away so far out in the Worlds? Remco doubling up in Paris?
ScottG27-12-2024 - Pretty classy comments by Jonas. Makes me like him even more.ScottG27-12-2024
- MVDP is simply a cross "machine" - amazing to watch.ScottG27-12-2024
- yes, Jonas said that he had lost a little muscle mass. In the other hand, also Tadej changed his physique: thin, more lighter than ever, legs and glutes well defined (finally, no more junior legs). Both were more lighter than ever but Pogi could put more muscle in legs and glutes.
maria2024202427-12-2024 - He can keep contending for Vuelta podium spots. A lot would need to go wrong for others and everything right for him to get on the Giro podium. He'll only be on the TdF podium if he's becomes a podium presenter.Veganpotter27-12-2024
- I like that, mind if I use it from now on? Better than using his name which always gets me worried about Google hits and giving him the excuse he was bound to behave the way he did from the derived verb.Mistermaumau27-12-2024
- This website needs clicks so just vacuums up what is available and loves anything that creates discussion.Mistermaumau27-12-2024
- Their battles are only interesting or special when both are in good shape and unfortunately it’s been a few years since that was last the case, road cycling tends to put an end to most side careers, MVDP still being a rare exception.Mistermaumau27-12-2024