{"id":32447,"date":"2025-07-29T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32447\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:39:07","slug":"tadej-pogacar-tour-de-france-winner-to-skip-vuelta-a-espana-to-rest-for-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32447\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar: Tour de France winner to skip Vuelta a Espana to rest for World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar will not race in next month’s Vuelta a Espana as he takes a break before focusing on the World Championships.<\/p>\n

Pogacar won his fourth Tour de France<\/a> last week to further establish himself as the dominant force in modern cycling.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old won road race gold at the World Championships last year with an epic attack from 100km out and is aiming to defend his crown in Rwanda in late September.<\/p>\n

The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider will return to racing at the Canadian one-day races in Quebec and Montreal in mid-September.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to go back to Canada; the races are tough but beautiful, and they fit my style well,” Pogacar said.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be aiming to be back racing well again for that part of the season and for the World Championships especially.”<\/p>\n

The Vuelta is the only one of the three Grand Tours Pogacar has not won, having finished third during his only appearance in 2019.<\/p>\n

The 2025 World Championships will be the first to take place in Africa and will be held in the Rwandan capital Kigali from 21-28 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar will not race in next month’s Vuelta a Espana as he takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-32447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}