‘Tadej watched the Giro and saw how good Jonas Vingegaard was’ – UAE Team Emirates-XRG ‘ready to race hard’ in Tour de France

UAE Team Emirates-XRG manager Mauro Gianetti has admitted that Tadej Pogačar and the team’s performance staff studied Jonas Vingegaard’s Giro d’Italia winning performance as they prepared for their clash at the Tour de France.

While the Dane was racing in Italy, Pogačar travelled to Sierra Nevada in Spain for three weeks of altitude training. Pogačar will ride the five-day Tour de Suisse (June 17-21) before facing Vingegaard at the Tour de France that begins with a team time trial in Barcelona on Saturday, July 4.