{"id":808049,"date":"2026-07-18T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:46:10","slug":"lance-armstrong-pogacar-knows-exactly-what-the-record-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808049\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong: ‘Poga\u010dar knows exactly what the record is’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lance Armstrong<\/a> releases his THE MOVE podcast<\/a> daily during the Tour de France, in which he sheds light on the events of the Tour. After stage nine, the American, whose seven overall victories were stripped following his doping confessions, spoke about the record that Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> was approaching. A few days later, Poga\u010dar also responded to this.For many people, it\u2019s a foregone conclusion that Tadej Pogacar<\/a> will win the Tour. This is also true for Armstrong, who sees the Slovenian joining the ranks of Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anguetil, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain. They, too, have each won the Tour five times.<\/p>\n

“He’s going to win this Tour, isn’t he? His fifth. And after the finish, we’re all going to hear\u2014including ourselves\u2014that Tadej Poga\u010dar has tied the all-time record for Tour victories and joined that exclusive club of five,” Armstrong said.<\/p>\n

“Well, guess what? He doesn’t believe that. He doesn’t believe that at all. He knows damn well what the real record is,” Armstrong says, referring to the seven times he rode into Paris in the yellow jersey between 1999 and 2005. “So don\u2019t count on him taking a year off after that.”<\/p>\n

Read more below the photo.<\/p>\n

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Lance Armstrong holding up seven fingers, in 2005.<\/p>\n

Armstrong hopes Pogacar will win the Tour more often<\/p>\n

Armstrong\u2014the unofficial record holder\u2014hopes that Pogacar will surpass him. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter; I\u2019m an athlete: athletes play the game, and sometimes you break a record or set a new one. After all, records are there to be broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Tadej Poga\u010dar knows exactly what the record is, so there’s no way he’s going to sit this one out. I really hope he goes for it,” says the American.<\/p>\n

It was Bradley Wiggins<\/a> who provoked this outburst from Armstrong, claiming he could see a time in the near future when Poga\u010dar would sit out the Tour de France to give his prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, Del Toro, a chance to win. “Your’e 100% wrong about that”, said Armstrong.Pogacar responds to Armstrong’s commentsAfter stage 13, Pogacar was asked directly what he thought following Armstrong’s remarks. ‘I was asked this question this morning. I don’t know, I can’t say anything about it. I’m not chasing records, I just want to finish this Tour in Paris with the yellow jersey, that is my main goal,’ CyclingWeekly<\/a> quotes from the press conference in Belfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Armstrong releases his THE MOVE podcast daily during the Tour de France, in which he sheds light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,235280,784,90670,85,6494,346968],"class_list":["post-808049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bradley-wiggins","tag-cycling","tag-lance-armstrong","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-france-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808049","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=808049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}