Serious warning from Pogacar, who ‘passed’ on Indurain and the Tour and is aiming for another goal: “That’s not what I want”

For any kid who loves cycling, winning the Tour is the best, also for himself. Tadej Pogacarwith only 25 years destroying everything world cycling records. However, the French race is no longer the main goal of the Slovenian and he recognizes it in a interview in cnn. “I have three Tours de France and maybe ten more years of racing if I feel good. So the chances of winning five Tours are still goodbut that’s not the goal I want,” Pogacar confessed on the eve of his return to competition.

Your priority is different. In many interviews, he has explained that he does not like being compared to Eddy Merckx, who is considered the best cyclist of all time. Pogacar wants to write his own history and not be ‘the new nobody’, but rather leave his own mark on the world of cycling. And he does, but he wants more: His goal is to win three grand tours and five great classics.

you already have three Tour de France, one Giro d’Italia, one Tour of Flanders, two Liège-Bastogne-Liège and three Giro de Lombardia. Three major events in the cycling calendar are missing from this list: The Vuelta, Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix. He only participated in the Spanish round in 2019, when he was almost 20 years old, and finished third. In the Italian event he was on the podium, but he is still fighting, and in the hell of the north he has not yet ridden.

One day racing, the big challenge

Of the three remaining goals, La Vuelta seems to be the most affordable. After this year’s double in which he rode and swept the Giro and the Tour, it is easy to imagine a season in which the double is the Tour and La Vuelta and achieve success on the Spanish roads. It’s more complicated than the one-day classic. Milan-Sen Remo was close, but the lack of stiffness at the Poggio de San Remo allowed their rivals to respond to their attacks. Even so, he finished third.

The last and perhaps the most difficult of their challenges was Paris-Roubaix. It is one of the most complicated races to win for cyclists as light as him. Furthermore, the competition there is extreme among runners like Van der Poel (who turned the Roubaix velodrome into his private playground), Van Aert, Pedersen either Philipsenwhich proved to be very strong on cobblestones. But if anyone is capable of overcoming any adversity, it is Tadej Pogacar. We just have to wait to see if he achieves his goal and activates the doubt who is best cyclist in history.