{"id":29847,"date":"2025-07-29T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29847\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:33:23","slug":"tadej-pogacar-hints-at-early-retirement-from-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29847\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar hints at early retirement from cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.khaleejtimes.com-min.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.khaleejtimes.com-min.jpeg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tadej Pogacar has hinted at the possibility of early retirement, potentially after the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After securing <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/wout-van-aert-wins-in-paris-as-tadej-pogacar-seals-fourth-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his fourth Tour de France title<\/a> in 2025, he expressed concerns about burnout in the demanding sport, citing the intense training and racing schedule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll stop right away, but I also don\u2019t see myself continuing too long,\u201d said the world champion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Los Angeles Olympics are one of my goals, which are three years from now. After that, I might start thinking about retirement \u2014 we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite his dominance, including wins in the Giro d\u2019Italia, Tour de France, and World Championships in 2024, Pogacar emphasized enjoying the moment and avoiding overtraining to prevent mental and physical fatigue. He remains contracted with UAE Team Emirates-XRG until 2030 but suggested he might not race that long, with no firm plans beyond defending his <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/live-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tour<\/a> title in 2026 and targeting the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLet\u2019s take one week easy now, I want to enjoy some summer days, we were training some much for heat adaptation and heat acclimatisation and in the end the Tour was not so hot, so I want some hot days now but without suffering on the bike, so let\u2019s take a week off and we\u2019ll see from then on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar has hinted at the possibility of early retirement, potentially after the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-29847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}