Pogacar: "I could win the three Grand Tours one year, but I don't want to make enemies"

Rome, 21 October 2024 - Everyone's crazy about Tadej pogacar, the object of desire par excellence of the 2025: the last to expose himself in this sense was Javier Guillen, the director of the Return who, strong in the fact that his is the only one Great Tour which is missing to complete the Triple Crown, said he was confident that the Slovenian will be at the start next year, even though he still has no clear ideas about what he will be doing.  

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Intercepted by the Slovenian newspaper Siol, pogacar he was immediately prompted by the wonderful thought that had crossed the minds of many even up until a few months ago: to run all the Grand Tours in a year maybe to win them in a row, like no one has ever managed. "I could do it when I'm older: I'm not enthusiastic about not doing something for a long time. Next year, for example, I'll run two more, but for the future I don't exclude any possibility. I could not do them anymore or try to win them all, which I think is a possible feat, but I prefer to have respect for my teammates because at home UAE Team Emirates there is a chance to do well even without me. I don't like the idea of ​​being greedy and creating enemies at home". In short, he was right Geraint Thomas when, in his podcast, he had stated that the idea of ​​the hat-trick to be done in the same year, maybe in 2024, had been discarded by the Slovenian to avoid burning the ground in the group and especially in his team but, as stated by the person concerned to the microphones of Siol, this theory is valid for today and it is not certain that it will remain valid even in a future that is today very nebulous: the point is that not even in the short term pogacar, deservedly on holiday today, knows what he will do and it is probably right that way, especially now that the routes of the Grand Tours are still all unknown. It is difficult to imagine today a Tour de France, the elite of cycling, without pogacar: it is therefore likely that the choice will be limited, as in fact happens every year, to Giro d'Italia e Return. "The pink and yellow jerseys are beautiful, but you can only wear them for three weeks: you wear the rainbow jersey in every race and everyone knows you are the world champion". The Slovenian still seems satisfied for the result achieved in Zurich, yet another peak in a constantly growing cycling movement. "I hope that all our people have realized what we are doing. In the beginning there was only Primois Roglic, then I arrived, Matej Mohoric, Jan Tratnik e Domen Novak. We are growing as National and I'm doing it too, who until recently didn't feel totally part of this project. I had the feeling - he concludes pogacar - that the Slovenian fans didn't see me as one of them because I saw so many negative comments about me, even on social media: today things are much better".

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