Exted Sunday at the end of his fourth coronation on the Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar should still not return to the Vuelta, in which he only participated in 2019. The Slovenian should however defend his title of world champion next September in Rwanda.
Once again, the Vuelta should do without Tadej Pogacar. Since the start of his career, the Slovenian winner on Sunday evening in Paris of the Tour de France on Sunday evening for the fourth time in his life and for the second time in a row only took the start of the Tour of Spain in 2019. For his first (and also last) participation, the best runner in the world, who was not yet at the time, had finished in third place, with moreover the jersey of the best young on his back.
Since then, the Vuelta has not seen the now quadruple winner of the Grande Boucle. And the third big tour of the season program will probably still have to wait. According to the Spanish daily AS“Pogi” should still not return to the next edition, whose departure will be given on August 23 from Turin, Italy. The leader of the UAE Emirates team finished the exhausted tour (“My body took a lot of blows, he needs to recover”) and he intends to offer a long break before finding his bike to prepare the Kigali Worlds at the end of September.
On the other hand, Pogacar will line up with the… Komenda Criterium
If Pogacar should ignore the Vuelta, he would indeed have in mind to defend his title of world champion on Rwandan roads. Another meeting is close to his heart. He did not hide it Sunday evening after this ultimate stage of the large loop won by the Belgian Wout Van Aert. “I look forward to the Komenda Critérium, at home on August 9, because it is different. »» “” I have objectives from here at the end of the season but more races ”, continues the Slovenian in
The team. The Vuelta, where the Emirati training should remind its ambitions of victory on Juan Ayuso and Joao Almeida, should probably not be part of it.
