Tadej Pogačar has confirmed his goals for the final part of the 2025 season and admitted that he is “already counting the years until retirement” but is also determined to “enjoy the moment” knowing that he will not dominate professional cycling forever.
Pogačar spoke for the first time since winning the Tour de France while at home in Komenda in Slovenia for a celebratory criterium organised by his home town and his youth cycling teams. He naturally won the race, ahead of Luka Mezgec and Matteo Trentin, as thousands of people from his home town cheered him on.
“I’m happy to be home again, to see friends, neighbours and family,” Pogačar said in a press conference, where he talked about his 2025 goals and beyond.
He began racing at WorldTour level in 2019 when just 20 years-old. He finished third on his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España in 2019 and has since won the Tour four times and a hundred other races. Only the Vuelta, Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix remain as future targets before he ends his career.
“It may seem funny to most people that I’m already counting down to retirement, but the fact is that a sports career isn’t very long,” Pogačar told the Slovenian media before his criterium.
The final goals of 2025
Pogačar spent time at his home in Montecarlo after a successful but gruelling Tour de France, where a cold affected him in the final week and he occasionally seemed…
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