{"id":842593,"date":"2026-08-02T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842593\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:01:10","slug":"we-will-see-on-monday-tadej-pogacar-teases-vuelta-a-espana-decision-announcement-as-he-wins-home-criterium-in-komenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842593\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We will see on Monday’ – Tadej Poga\u010dar teases Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a decision announcement as he wins home criterium in Komenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

After winning the Tour de France<\/a> for a record-equalling fifth time, the biggest question hanging over the rest of Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s<\/a> season is whether or not he will race La Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> later this month.<\/p>\n

Speaking at his own post-Tour criterium in his hometown of Komenda – which he won – the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider suggested that an announcement on his participation in the third Grand Tour of the year would be made on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Asked by journalists ahead of the event whether he would line up in Monaco on the 22nd of August, Poga\u010dar quipped: \u201cWhat do they collect there? Little bulls?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaybe. We will see. We will see on Monday,\u201d he said, according to RTVSLO.<\/p>\n

Should he race the Vuelta, it would be his first time at the race since he burst onto the podium in 2019 on his Grand Tour debut at the age of 19, winning three stages.<\/p>\n

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If he were to win the race, Poga\u010dar would become just the fourth man to win the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in the same season, joining Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Chris Froome. Froome is the only rider to have accomplished the feat with the Vuelta in its current post-Tour slot. He would also join rival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) in the select club of riders to win all three Grand Tours during his career.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar also fended off questions on the subject of La Vuelta during the Tour de France, which became particularly difficult when Prince Albert of Monaco told L\u2019Equipe<\/a> that “Tadej Poga\u010dar said he would be at the start, so we’ll see\u201d.<\/p>\n

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When asked by the media at the Tour, Poga\u010dar said: \u201cIf the Prince said it, there’s a high chance.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to Cyclingnews during the Tour, Poga\u010dar\u2019s team boss Mauro Gianetti said that the team would \u201cmake that decision after the Tour<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Discussions are said to have taken place this week between Poga\u010dar and team management to make that final decision.<\/p>\n

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Poga\u010dar won his eponymous criterium for a second year running (Image credit: Getty Images)Poga\u010dar’s post-Tour week<\/p>\n

Alongside conversations about La Vuelta, Poga\u010dar has spent time resting at home in Slovenia since winning his fifth Tour de France, gearing up for the Tadej Poga\u010dar Criterium in Komenda, which is enjoying its eighth edition.<\/p>\n

He received a celebratory welcome home in Komenda on Thursday evening, hosting a press conference and entertaining the large gathered crowd with his unicycle skills.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, he lined up to race alongside UAE Team Emirates-XRG teammates Isaac del Toro, Felix Gro\u00dfschartner and Tim Wellens, as well as several other professionals and friends. The riders raced 35 laps of a 980-metre circuit around Komenda.<\/p>\n

The three-day event continued with a family day on Saturday before Sunday\u2019s race up the Krvavec climb, in which Poga\u010dar will set off last, attempting to catch 1,177 riders ahead of him. The event is run in aid of the Tadej Poga\u010dar foundation.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media, Poga\u010dar talked about the challenges of racing the Tour and his need for recovery after spending a month in France.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou somehow have to switch off, reset and give yourself at least a week after the Tour before you truly recover and return to reality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou spend a month in France, racing and living entirely inside that bubble. Before that, you also spend a month at a training camp. It all adds up, and when you finally return home, it can be quite a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning the Tour de France for a record-equalling fifth time, the biggest question hanging over the rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-842593","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\/842593","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=842593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}