After winning the long-awaited Giro-Tour double, Tadej Pogacar is not competing in La Vuelta this year, the only grand tour that is missing from his palmares right now.
But when will Pogacar come to the Vuelta again? Alex Carera, Pogacar’s agent gives us some hints.
“Look, I never intervene in race decisions, that is something that the team decides, but Tadej sometimes asks me what I think about this or that, and I can tell you that every year he sets himself a new objective, a different challenge.”
“Two seasons ago it was the Tour of Flanders, this year it has been the Giro d’Italia and in that line I know that he wants to return to two races. One is the Tour Down Under, because he raced it once and did not win it, he was very close to the top 10 [it was his first race as a professional cyclist], and the other is Vuelta a Espana.”
This is how the Slovenian’s mind works, insatiable about filling the map of cycling races with pins.
“Do you know why he rode the Volta a Catalunya this year?” Carera continues. “Because he had never won a WorldTour stage race in Spain. He had ridden an Itzulia, but he didn’t win it, he had ridden a Vuelta and finished third, and this year he wasn’t going to be able to do the Vuelta because he was doing the Giro and the Tour, nor the Basque Country because it was very close to the Giro, so the only option left was Catalunya.” Said and done.
“Soon he will also want to ride the Tour of the Basque Country, because his dream is to win all the races on the calendar. I’m sure that in 2025 or 2026 he will return to Vuelta a Espana, but it will be something that he will decide with his team and those closest to him. Right now, I would say that the chances of seeing him here next year are 50%.”
