{"id":944124,"date":"2026-10-28T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944124\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:16:13","slug":"uae-team-emirates-will-not-beat-their-2025-win-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944124\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Team Emirates will not beat their 2025 win total"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAE Emirates-XRG can once again look back on an extremely successful season. The team led by Tadej Poga\u010dar entered 2026 knowing that it had achieved a record 97 victories in 2025. For much of the season, the team remained on track<\/a>, but in the final weeks of the year, the tally ultimately stalled at 78.Velon<\/a> tallied up the victories of 2026 and came up with 78 wins, shared among 20 riders. Once again, Poga\u010dar played the most prominent role.<\/p>\n

The Slovenian won 22 times, all of them at the WorldTour level. He started with a win at Strade Bianche, claimed his first victory at Milan\u2013San Remo, added another Tour of Flanders to his resume, and was once again the best at Li\u00e8ge.<\/p>\n

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Poga\u010dar wasn’t able to defend his rainbow jersey in 2026<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar amassed victories at every stage race in 2026<\/p>\n

After a typical spring season, his win streak really took off when the focus shifted to stage races. He won 4 stages and the overall victory at the Tour de Romandie, 3 stages and the overall victory at the Tour de Suisse.<\/p>\n

Then 5 stages and the overall victory at the Tour de France, and at the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a he had already won 3 stages when. However, disaster struck on Stage 8, when he crashed hard. His season came to an end with serious injuries and fractures.<\/p>\n

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Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France for the fifth time.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar was aiming for a record number of wins in 2026<\/p>\n

With 22 victories, Pogacar was the big winner in the UAE Emirates-XRG team standings, but what might have been possible if he hadn\u2019t crashed?<\/p>\n

The Vuelta still had thirteen days to go, with most of the mountain stages still ahead. Without a team, Pogacar had the World Championships and European Championships coming up, but he would normally have also ridden the Tour of Lombardy in the Italian autumn.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Pogacar racked up 20 victories, including the World Championships and the European Championships. His most successful year in terms of wins was 2024, when he won 24 times.<\/p>\n

However, Poga\u010dar did complete two Grand Tours that year, as well as the Tour of Catalonia in the spring. His own record of 24 victories would thus have been possible.<\/p>\n

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Pogacar withdrew from the Vuelta.<\/p>\n

UAE Emirates-XRG has won 78 times<\/p>\n

The mention of Pogacar in this story doesn\u2019t just apply to the Slovenian rider with UAE Emirates-XRG. A whole host of other riders crashed in 2026, including Jay Vine, Marc Soler, Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez, and Tim Wellens.<\/p>\n

Jo\u00e3o Almeida struggled with health issues all year, causing UAE to miss out on some extra victories.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, his tally of 78 victories can truly be called incredible, especially considering that things weren\u2019t exactly going his way.<\/p>\n

Isaac del Toro was second behind Pogacar with 12 victories, but even for the Mexican, that was more than he had in 2025. Jan Christen, Julius Johansen, and Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy also contributed significantly to the total, with all three recording 5 victories.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n