If, as expected, Tadej Pogacar won a fourth Tour de France, the Slovenian confirmed his mental wear after three very intense weeks.
Tadej Pogacar took all the risks on Sunday, to win a fifth victory on this 2025 Tour de France. Despite a soggy road, the yellow jersey thus passed the offensive several times, not hesitating to descend from the Butte Montmartre. Las, the Slovenian fell on a bone in the person of Wout Van Aert, imperial on Parisian cobblestones.
While he had appeared on the defensive for several days, the world title champion has regained his taste for attack. “Today (yesterday) is the nature of the race, with neutralized times for the general classification, which made it possible to have a fight at the top of the race. Everyone who wanted to engage, it was pure race ”,
he confided to the Parisian.
If he has not completed the conquest of his fourth Tour de France with a fifth stage victory, Tadej Pogacar has a little closer to Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Jacques Anquetil, Miguel Indurain and their five coronations on the Tour. And the objective is now clear for the leader of the UAE-Emirates team.
Tadej pogacar and the risks of burnout
“Obviously, it will be a goal to win five laps”, he launched, seeming much more in the blur concerning its end of the season. “For the moment, I have no specific objectives. Apart from the world championship this year, and the Tour of Lombardy, Souffled the one who was expected at the Vuelta. I will give my other goals soon. Everything is possible, but now I don’t think about any race. »»
Because by his own admission, Tadej Pogacar must deal with a certain weariness, visibly more mental than physical.
“Burn-out, mental or physical, arrives in a lot of sport. We train a lot, we are sometimes too obsessed with that. Everyone wants to do more, He explained on the risk of burnout. Burnout can happen anytime and it can happen to me too. If I do a burn-out at this stage of my career, I will stop there and I can be happy with what I have achieved. »»
