{"id":932831,"date":"2026-10-18T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:44:15","slug":"tadej-pogacar-announces-his-goals-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932831\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar Announces His Goals for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 road cycling season is over! After ten months of road racing, the riders can finally take a break\u2014or hit the fields for the winter. Tadej Pogacar<\/a> is already preparing for the season and, during a charity press conference, announced his own goals for the upcoming season. And it will likely be quite similar to his 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Pogacar dominated once again this year, with victories in Milan-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, and the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

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Pogacar won his 5th Tour de France in 2026<\/p>\n

Pogacar talked about the extent of his Vuelta injuries<\/p>\n

The Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a also looked set to fall to the Slovenian rider from UAE Team Emirates-XRG, but a crash left him with a broken vertebra and collarbone. It meant the end of his season, but he\u2019s back on the bike now.<\/p>\n

“The injury was pretty serious,” Siol<\/a> noted during the press conference. “Not only my collarbone and vertebrae, but also a concussion, so it took me a while\u2014I\u2019d say about five weeks\u2014to get back on the bike. I\u2019ve been training for just over a week now; I\u2019d say I started a month earlier than usual<\/a>. Last week was sort of a fresh start to the new season.\u201d\"tadej-pogacar-val-vuelta\"\/Pogacar really wanted to compete in the World Championships and European Championships<\/p>\n

For a moment, there were rumours about a return to the World Championships, but that turned out to be premature.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s true that I really wanted to compete in the championship. After spending two weeks at home, I started training again on the stationary bike, went to the gym and the physical therapist every day\u2026 I absolutely wanted to maintain the form I had during the Vuelta.\u201d<\/p>\n

The European Cycling Championships took place a week later, and in his home country, no less. \u201cThe European Championships gave me extra motivation for my rehabilitation,\u201d says Pogacar.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut less than two weeks before the European Championships, I realised there was no point in racing. If I were to crash again, the consequences could be very serious. And that wouldn\u2019t end well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

\"tadej-pogacar\"\/Pogacar makes decisions for 2027: ‘I would have preferred to go to the Giro, but…’<\/p>\n

And so the focus shifted to the upcoming season. And Pogacar already knows how he wants to approach it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I wrapped up the season a while ago, we\u2019ll have a concrete discussion about what we\u2019re going to do next season. My goal is to ride the World Championships in combination with the Tour and the Vuelta, which didn\u2019t work out this year. Although I\u2019d prefer to ride the Giro, I\u2019ll have to ride the Vuelta at some point.\u201d- Tadej Pohacar to SiolPogacar has unfinished business at the Vuelta<\/p>\n

The World Championships and the Tour de France certainly won\u2019t come as a surprise, and the Vuelta isn\u2019t out of the question either, since he still has a score to settle there after his serious crash.<\/p>\n

But the fact that he\u2019d rather ride the Giro is perhaps a bit surprising. The two-time world champion explains.<\/p>\n

One of Italy\u2019s neighboring countries is, of course, Slovenia. In recent years, the Grand Tour has been visiting there more and more often.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a Giro stage passes through Slovenia, it\u2019s a unique experience for the Slovenians, on Slovenian roads, for the fans\u2026 If that were to happen, it would be phenomenal. But as far as my participation in the next Giro is concerned, that\u2019s highly unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 road cycling season is over! After ten months of road racing, the riders can finally take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,493455,301239,85,6494,19805],"class_list":["post-932831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia-2027","tag-latest-cycling-news","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932831","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=932831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}