The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar in the finish line of stage 14 of the Tour de France.
Foto: Efe – Christophe Petit Tesson
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The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar said he did not want to risk in the Superbagnères stage, where he was second, but pointed out that he is looking forward to taking revenge in the Mont Ventoux and the Col de la Lze, two ports where in the past he failed.
“It seems that this year the Tour wanted to bring me to the places where I have spent worse. Hautacam, the Ventoux, the Col de la Lze, where I exploded in 2022. There are three ports that I like and I am impatient to upload them again,” said the UAE cyclist, winner of four stages in this edition of the Tour.
“I hope to have better legs than in the past. I have been the Loze twice, it is one of the toughest ports that I have risen in my life,” said the Slovenian, who already accumulates 21 victories in the French round. In the general he takes 4:13 minutes to Danish Jonas Vingegaard, his closest persecutor.
The Slovenian pedalist, who was second this Saturday at the goal, behind the Dutch Thymen Arensman, congratulated the winner of the day and said he did not want to risk more to look for his fifth win in this edition.
“In the Tourmalet we could recover time, but there was fog, wind and the road was wet, we had to go down with caution, you just saw 20 meters ahead. And we have chosen to go to the defensive and finish the day without stupid errors. I am proud of my team,” he said.
Pogacar said that his team, the UAE Team Emirates, will have to continue working until the end: “No one is going to help us, we will have to defend the jersey yellow, impose our rhythm. ”It has luxury gregarious such as Ecuadorian Jonathan Narváez and Adam Yates.
The Slovenian lamented the withdrawal of the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who was third of the general, since he occupied in the final podium of last year: “I was fighting for the podium and the white jersey (of best young man), it is a shame to lose a corridor with so much talent. I wish him to return soon.”
The world champion supported the candidacy launched by the government of his country so that the Tour begins in Slovenia in 2029. “It is something that I could not imagine. I have always had envy of the French, who easily pass near their native peoples, it has to be something special.”
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