How Tadej Pogacar Will Approach The Tour de France 2024 

The passion and respect Pogi has for this sport, even for his competitors are so wonderful. He is indeed a true champion in his mind.

Doesn’t matter how many tours he wins. Pogi is the people Champ.

Tadej is the most natural person and humble person among the cycling stars 💫🌟✨

Tadej is such a gentleman! A credit to his sport, his family, and his country!

I absolutely respect Pogacar, as a pro cyclist. His bursts of speed is borderline superhuman. I love Jonas for his superior climbing and both men are extremely humble

Really revealling interview with insight to Tadej mindset. He said 50 years from now it wont matter whether you win five or two Tour de France... Regardless of whether this is agreed with elsewhere, that is what he thinks! Tadej sounds as if he'd rather win a Giro, Vuelta and World Champs than more tours. He recognises everyone else wants him to win/focus on, le tour. However, he won it first time out and his mindset towards the race and what gives him motivation may be altered because of the sequencing of his success. Fans want the match up with a primed Pogacar vs Vingegaard for le tour. However, Tadej currently seems as much energised by the diversity of his victories across a career than purely the most prestigious race, he won it first time out. It may not be on the same pedastal on his psyche. He is not an obsessive GC rider preparing like a Team Sky rider (Wiggins, Froome, Thomas, Bernal) or LA before that .... which Fans love about him too. UAE pay him €6 million per year to win - the tour. He can win just about any race yet the pressure of others desires is really all about him winning that race. He appears to want to be free to RACE many beautiful races... fight Van Der Poel for a world title & Flanders etc. He doesnt want 6-7months of slow build crescendoing in a July peak. Everyone wants to tell the most talented guy what he should do with that talent to satisfy their own curiosity. He is the one with talent though.

Chapeau to Pogi. Amazing how passionate he is for the sport and most importantly for his unique way to choose the races that his heart and challenge calls him. Cycling is not just about the tour. For me Tadej is already a legend

thanks for coming to Singapore and hitting up the pros for interviews!

Always the best questions. And honest answers from Tadej. 👌

Thank you for this interview. Tadej is fantastic.I really like that he doesn't just focus on TDF, but takes part in other races he is constantly in shape and at the top.It's going to be an interesting season, they can't wait.

The King Pogaaaaa.... Simply the best🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

You are the best interviewer!!! Great, inteligent questions which bring out from the big names things we dont get anywhere else

Designing a 3-week Tour route for Pogacar; would be harder climbs in the first week, no penultimate climb longer than 15 km, under 2000 m altitude and no mountain top finish in the 3rd week except for maybe some Massif Central climbs. TTs designed to be really high speed, without too many twists and turns, ups and downs.

What a guy, he loves to race, loose or win. Amazing athletic with a great spirit

Most exciting rider to watch by far and a great personality!

Tadej is certainly good enough to win monuments, one week races and the TDF in the same year. (Not crashing is key!) The key in the 2024 tour will be whenever it is above 2000m... (I am sure he will get the Giro, Vuelta and World Champs when the course suits him!)

Fun watching him smirk to himself as it's said "they say Jonas is the better climber and time trialist." He's taking that personally. This coming tour will be fun to watch.

My schedule for Tadej POGACAR: Plan a) Milano-Sanremo, Tour of Flanders, Ardennes classics, Giro d Italia, Olympic games, world Championship Plan b) Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Giro d Italia, Tour de France, world Championship

With his 2024 race schedule he talked about the team maybe wanting something different from what he wants. I feel like this is either the team not wanting him do so many spring classics or he wants to do Giro Vuelta and they want him to race Tour? IDK. Loved him in the classics. I think UAE know Pogi is their only realistic chance of challenging Jonas at the Tour so obvi they want him there. And if Pogi were to race Giro Vuelta then guys like Ayuso, Yates and Almeida who you have to keep happy have no real grand tour chances.

Great champion! Expecting to see him setting a show next year

We all love Pogi❤❤

I actually love him

cut one week off... made my day Tadej :D:D:D

class!

In my opinion, Pogacar should participate to the Giro, in which he hasn't competed before, and the Vuelta, in which he placed 3rd in his first participation with 3 stage wins.

True cycling-fans are hopefully excited that we have both Pogacar and Vingegaard.

Love the direction questions. The same thing everyone is thinking!

I sure hope he prioritizes grand tours next year. Apart from LBL and MSR he has won all the monuments that suit him. Giro and TdF in 2024 could see him bring his best shape yet and benefit from other high-level competitors attacking Vingegaard.

It is a strength to know one's weaknesses, I hope Pogi will save energy and not burn so many matches for nothing in the Tour of 24.

I belive that Tadej can win Tdf 2024.

What a champion!

the best

Excellent Interview. Tadej, your ambitions are more intelligent than those of your sponsors. I wish you that you can go for them. And: you can win MSR as well as PR. Go for it.

whatup w the aurum shirt?

Great answers by Pogi, but why do you ask him a question he has already answered? That aside, good job 👍

Have they changed bicycle? Or how can he wear an Aurum shirt?

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Forza Tadej!

goat

What would you do with the Tour de France? "I would cut one week off!" LOL.

I hope that Pog will get himself back to the top podium position

Can anyone explain why the t-shirt he's wearing says "AURUM"? Is the UAE going to ride Contador's bike?

Pogacar world championship 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

did UAE change to Aurum bikes?

My prediction is that he is going to try and win the race...

TP needs to forget the spring classics and do the shorter stage races to win the TDF. Otherwise JV will keep winning. Second place in not bad, but TP is capable of first.

POGOTCHA!

Pogger

Whoa. The interviewer projects more than I have ever seen in an interview; Tadej shows a lot of pose.

He probably gonna have the same schedule as this year... plus tour of slovenia. So not ideal for the tour

Sepp Kuss will win Tour de France 2024... well, maybe.

Pogacar lost the tour in the last week twice now - it's no wonder he does not want to ride the last week.

Im Danish and I love Pogi and love the blessed era we are witnessing with all these gifted riders, but I don't think Pogi stands a chance of beating Jonas in a 3 week GT, unless he gives up his spring classics. What we know. The last 3 years pogo has lost to Jonas in the 3rd week of the tour, so we can call this a pattern. The only thing we need to see yet to definitely rule out that Pogi can't beat Jonas, is if Pogi will give up his spring classics and focus on the tour 100%. let's see if he does that, I don't think he will instill Pogi has won all the classics he wants and has been world champion, so I think that Jonas with no injuries will win the next cobble of years. Can't see anybody the next years beating Jonas even though Ayuso and rodrlguez looks promising. As long as the tours parkour 3rd week has hard mountain stages or hilly ITT s then Jonas will win. Mark my words. Jonas will without accidents be at least 5 times Tour de France Champion

Jonas is still the pain on his ass. 😂