Merijn Zeeman on glutton Pogacar: “I do not know if it advantages your recognition as a rider”

Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 9:14 AM

After Tadej Pogačar’s fourth stage win on this Tour de France on Isola 2000, Visma | Lease a Bike has come to phrases with the truth that Jonas Vingegaard is now not within the working for the ultimate victory this yr. That’s the reason the workforce determined to take a distinct strategy. With Matteo Jorgenson, the workforce was on its approach to the stage win, however it was Pogačar who caught up with him and gained. Maybe Pogačar’s standing will change due to this, wonders workforce supervisor Merijn Zeeman.

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In entrance of the digital camera of CyclingFlash Zeeman already addressed the query about Pogačar’s eagerness to win this stage as effectively, even though the breakaway had an enormous lead and Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel had been primarily taking a look at one another. “That he actually likes profitable”, laughed Zeeman, who doesn’t need to be granted something. “We do not need any presents both. If he needs to win, he has to win. I’d have actually appreciated Matteo and the workforce to win, it might have been a pleasant reward. However he needed to win himself.”

‘He does not depart a lot for the remaining’
In dialog with the Belgian newspaper The final information Zeeman went additional into the ‘cannibalism’ of the Slovenian from UAE Emirates. “We had been among the many fortunate ones who may additionally take a experience, as a result of in any other case he does not depart a lot for the remaining. That is his/their alternative, after all. However I do not know if it advantages your recognition as a rider,” he wonders.

Fellow workforce supervisor Frans Maassen may nonetheless snicker about it, that Pogačar and UAE had been ‘not his pals’ on Friday. “However no one says that they should make pals, proper? It’s his proper to assault. Unhealthy for us, and for the opposite escapees. However that’s prime sport. He additionally rode laborious. And deservedly gained”, he’s clear.