The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, triple winner of Tour de France and world champion, considering that the most difficult title to defend is certainly the one awarded by the rainbow jersey, and ensures that The Return Your plans for 2025 can be entered.
Pogačar (Klanec, 26 years old), He has only a few days left to start the cycling preseason, but as he attends to social commitments, especially to collect many awards for a course where he has obtained 25 victories in 58 days of competition.
Last Monday, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of KD Rog Cycling Associationwhere he grew up as a cyclist, received a golden bicycle, and a week later was named the best Slovenian athlete of 2024.
“I have some official events ahead of me, but then I will gradually go to the first preparation in December with the team in warmer places, where we will start to train seriously,” said Pogacar, referring to concentration planned by the UAE in Alicante.
Of all the achievements achieved, that of World Cup in Zurich It is especially engraved in Pogacar’s mind.
“There are so many great victories, and in important races, that I can’t choose just one, but the one in the world championship with the national team is a bit more important than the others,” said Pogačar.
And this title, Pogacar said, “is probably the most difficult race to defend the victory.”
However, the rainbow jersey reminded that some cyclists were able to repeat the World Cup title, like the Frenchman. Julian Alaphilippe in 2020 and 2021 and the Slovak Peter Sagan on three occasions, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
As for his future plans, Pogacar has not yet decided to tackle the classic Paris Roubaix, but he left up in the air the possibility of going to the Vuelta to achieve the only great missing on his record.
Pogacar does not doubt that “the Tour de France is the most important race in the world and as a three-week spectacle it is a great cycling event,” adding that “along with the monuments” these are his favorite event.
Source: La Verdad
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