Tour de France: Tadej Pogacar who wants to bury the ghosts of the past in the final week
Tadej Pogačar drives not only for a yellow jersey on the Tour of the de France, but also to bury the spirits of the past.
As 2025 Tour de France goes into their final and most important mountain phases, the champion champion will deal with the rises where he broke or struggled before.
They wait for Mount Ventoux and Col de La Loze again. But this time things feel different.
“I am almost confident to say that the route is designed to scare me” Pogacar He said with a smile on Monday.
“But I always look like a situation in the race. I actually love all these ups.”
This year he has already won Hautacam, where his hope of the tour went missing in 2022. Year when he beat him the main rival Jonas VingegaardWho finished 2:10 behind Slovenian.
Pogarčar is 4:13 in front of the day in the general classification as he marched toward the fourth titles of the tour.
In his sixth campaign, Pogarči speaks of a guarantee of a man who is determined to make peace with painful memories.
“Col de La Lose, for me is one of the hardest climbers I’ve ever done” He admitted.
“I’m not looking for revenge. I just want to have better legs from those days in the past.”
2023. Pogacar experienced what he then called the “worst day” of his life on the bike when he broke into a climb at Kol de la Leza, was effectively lost tour in Vingegaard.
Although the UAE team Emirates-Xrg Rider appears firmly in control, the cake knows better than anyone to make one bad day change.
Although Vingegaard suffered two lines of the day, he insists that he was not out.
“I think I can beat him. Of course, she looks very difficult now – that’s a big gap,” The day said.
“But I usually make my strength on the third week. We have to attack.”
Vingegaard, however, there is no illusion about the challenge before you.
“The biggest difference is my two days, where I lost most of my time”, ” He said.
“But I don’t think the gap is great great. I know it’s not my level – I can do much better than that.
“I am also ready to sacrifice a second to try to achieve first.”
ViMa – Lease of Bike’s sports director Grischa Niermann underlined the emergency of the mission.
“Four minutes – you don’t invent the attack in the last 500 meters”, “ Niermann said.
“In order to happen, we must see the weakness in Tade. He hasn’t shown him so far. But the tour is over only when we get to Paris.”
The ViMa-lease seems to have lost the collective strength that made them an amazing set 2022. And 2023, when Vingegaard won his two tours.
“They tend to overpower their drivers and after two or three years, they are completely empty”, “ The senior official in the second tourist team told Reuters.
“They have plans, but they do not have the capacity to carry them out. They should be more humiliated.”
The cake is ready for everything that could come to him.
“We’re ready to argue with everyone,” he said. “Especially with Jonas.”