After surrendering the Olympic Games, Tadej Pogacar You will enjoy a well-deserved rest. The new winner of Tour de France He will thus be able to recover from the efforts of the last three weeks in which he managed to regain the yellow jersey and up to six stages of victory in the French round.
Slovenian weather is exceptional. Success in Street Bianchein Volta a Catalunya, in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Giro d’Italia and the Tour. He leads the UCI rankings with 4250 points, doubling Jasper Philipsen, third (2140) and has a wide advantage over Remco Evenepoel, second (2915). However, already at the finish line in Nice, Pogacar made it clear that he was not satisfied and that he was already focused on the World Cup in Zurich which will be held on September 29. “I see Van der Poel very handsome in the jersey of the world champion and I want it for to myself,” he noted.
If he achieves this, he will be the third cyclist in history to win the Turn around, the Tour and the World Championship, the Triple Crown, in the same year. This was done before by Eddy Merckx (1974) and Stephen Roche (1987).
La Gazzetta announced the calendar of Pogacar to get to peak form in Zurich and also the final tests before closing their season. On September 13 and 15, the Quebec GP and the Montreal GP will take place, respectively. After the World Cup he will travel to Italy for the Giro dell’Emilia (October 5), Tres Valles Varesinos (October 8) and the Giro de Lombardia (October 12), a monument he has won in the last three years.
Source: La Verdad
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