Slovenian favorite Tadej Pogačar at the finish of the time trial in this year’s Tour de France.
Christophe Petit Tesson, Reuters
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Pogačar clearly dominates the standings of this year’s Old Lady. There are only five stages left in the last week, and the driver of the UAE Team Emirates team has a good more than five-minute lead over the second Colombian Rigobert Uranus. During both days off, he had to deal with various unpleasant questions. Including whether he is preparing answers to questions about whether he is helping himself by illicit means.
“You can be sure that it doesn’t bother me in any way. These are annoying questions, but I completely understand why they appear, because the history of cycling is really bad in this respect,” Pogačar admitted. “However, I am not preparing answers to such questions in any way. I just love when I can ride a bike. And what I have to do with it, I accept and accept it. When I need to answer such questions, I speak straight from the heart,” he said.
Will the Slovenian favorite Tadej Pogačar bring the yellow jersey of the leader to Paris on the Tour de France?
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However, despite his support for doping controls, he remains reluctant to publish all current performance data in order not to give rivals a possible advantage. “I’ve been asked this question several times. Maybe I’ll publish my data one day, but if you share all your data, other teams can see your boundaries and abilities in a certain terrain. And it’s really not very advantageous,” Pogačar said.
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He also admitted that he was a little more nervous from his position at the top of the Tour than he might think. Despite a big lead, however, he wants to continue to attack his increase whenever the opportunity arises. “I don’t think about the end of the Tour or anything else. If I have the opportunity to create an even bigger lead, it will only be good, because you never know if you can’t lose in the coming days. And it’s not good if you fail so much in one stage, that you will lose, for example, nine or ten minutes, “said Pogachar.
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