In the 112nd edition of the Tour de France, cycling dominator Tadej Pogacar drove in his own league. After his dominant performance at the France tour, the superstar takes a little break. This is also just right, as the former tour winner Chris Froome finds.
“I did not pay particular attention to how Pogacar seemed, but I think it was normal that he looked tired,” the Englishman looked back on the form of the overall winner at the end of the Tour de France on the edge of the Poland: “He has always driven at a high level and every year. On the contrary, a little more is asked for every year.”
The 40-year-old continues that he is now “in a way understandable” that he now leaves important events such as the Vuelta, which started in Spain, “the 40-year-old continues:” At this moment you understand that you have to start saying something ‘no’ or at least planning your season differently than before. “
According to Froome, who was able to win the Tour de France four times in 2013 and 2015 to 2017, “the only way to remain clear and attentive in many years. New impulses help you not to lose sight of your goals, but pay attention to what I said before.
Pogacar is already thinking about his resignation
Pogacar himself recently spoken about the increasing stress – mentally and physically. “The fact is that I have already counted the years until my resignation,” said the 26-year-old: “I will probably take the tour a few more times, although you can never say whether you will be there.” He would sometimes like to “be a little less famous,” said the superstar.
Pogacar’s mega contract at UAE Team Emirates-XRG still has five years. This year the Slovenian had taken numerous classics of cycling in preparation for the Tour de France.
He won two monuments (Flanders Tour, Liège-Bastogne-Liège). Instead, he waived the Giro d’Italia – which he won last year in his first participation – and now also on the Vuelta. So far he had only started in Spain, in 2019 he finished third.