Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG) is not going to defend his Giro d’Italia crown in 2025 however may nonetheless be in line for a Tour-Vuelta double, in line with his sports activities director Mauro Gianetti.
The UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG DS confirmed his star rider would miss the Giro this 12 months, talking after Pogačar picked up his first victory of the season.
The world champion gained Stage 3 of the workforce’s dwelling race, the UAE Tour, on Wednesday, selecting up the chief’s jersey within the course of.
“Sure, it is sure,” Gianetti mentioned, in line with L’Équipe.
“Now we will plan every thing to know if he’ll line up for the Tour and the Vuelta or simply the Tour. He may solely do the Tour.
“Relying on the beginning of the season, we are going to determine within the coming weeks.”
Pogačar famously turned the third man to assert biking’s Triple Crown final 12 months, obliterating the remainder of the sector on his debut on the Giro d’Italia earlier than profitable his third Tour de France and his first World Championships title. The trifecta of biking’s largest titles hadn’t been gained in the identical 12 months since Stephen Roche achieved the feat in 1987.
The Slovenian has not raced the Vuelta since 2019, when he made his Grand Tour debut. He completed third – behind compatriot Primož Roglič and Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde – and gained three phases and the white jersey.
His efficiency then prompted the workforce to fast-track him to the Tour de France, which he gained on his first try the next 12 months.
Chris Froome was the final man to win each the Tour and Vuelta in the identical calendar 12 months, in 2017, and the one man to take action for the reason that Vuelta moved to its present spot within the season in 1995.
