UAE Team Emirates-XRG management have made it clear that, for the moment at least, there is no plan to change two of Tadej Pogačar’s main goals in 2026 and that he will once again be aiming for a yellow jersey in July and a rainbow jersey in September.
“In principle, he’s doing the Tour and the Worlds,” team sports manager Joxean Fernández Matxin told MARCA.
Matxin’s comments come shortly after it emerged that Patrick Evenepoel, the father of Remco, has said that he thought Pogačar wanted to do the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España in 2026.
“You always talk about Pogačar,” Evenepoel senior told the Belgian podcast, ’On connaît nos classiques,’ “but I don’t get the impression that he’s going to do the Tour this year.”
However, to judge by Matxin’s words, Pogačar will not be missing out on a chance to clinch a record-equalling fifth win in the Tour de France next year. He will also be pushing to go toe-to-toe with the five riders who have currently taken three victories in the elite men’s World Championships road race.
However, he also warned that “when you’ve been the best team in the world, you realise that lots of people pick up on what you’re doing. They know how you race, where you’ll attack, what you’re looking for.
”And that obliges you to go on evolving. There are more and more teams that understand how we work.”
Regarding their star racer, though, Matxin pointed out that that kind of versatility came naturally to Pogačar because “he’s got a capacity to reinvent himself and tackle each season differently. At the same time, he’s been the best rider in the world for five years….
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