‘Tadej sets the bar, we try to reach it’ – Juan Ayuso discusses daily team life with all-time great Pogačar

When it comes to being a young, aspiring GC contender and you’re in the same team as Tadej Pogačar, it can’t be straightforward. But according to Juan Ayuso, Pogačar’s teammate at UAE, who makes no secret of his own Grand Tour ambitions, that’s exactly why he likes it.

As Ayuso sees it, Pogačar is the best racer in the world, and that makes the Slovenian what the 22-year-old calls ‘the one who sets the bar, and we try to reach it’ – even if such a mission is actually borderline impossible and Pogačar is operating in a league of his own.