{"id":937706,"date":"2026-10-18T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937706\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:20:09","slug":"tadej-pogacar-lays-out-huge-2027-ambitions-record-sixth-tour-de-france-and-vuelta-redemption-among-three-major-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937706\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar lays out huge 2027 ambitions: Record sixth Tour de France and Vuelta redemption among three major targets"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHe will also pin on a race number again before the year is out, having confirmed his participation alongside Urska Zigart at the BeKing charity criterium<\/a> in Monaco on 29 November. UAE Team Emirates-XRG had announced in September that his injuries would keep him out for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve now been training regularly for a week, which is a month earlier than in previous years,\u201d Pogacar said.<\/p>\n

A sixth Tour would put Pogacar out on his own<\/p>\n

Pogacar\u2019s fifth Tour victory this July brought him level with Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain. Another would make him the first rider with six recognised overall victories, having already won the last three editions.<\/p>\n

His plans come ahead of the full 2027 route presentation in Paris on Thursday 22 October. The British Grand Depart is already confirmed: Edinburgh hosts the start on 2 July, followed by stages through England and Wales before the peloton heads to France. The race finishes on 25 July.<\/p>\n

Five weeks later, Pogacar will attempt to regain the world title he won in 2024 and 2025. His Vuelta injuries prevented him from defending it in Montreal this autumn, where UAE teammate Brandon McNulty succeeded him.<\/p>\n

The 2027 championship takes the peloton to Sallanches and Domancy, returning to the terrain where Hinault won the 1980 world title. Organisers have confirmed 20 laps, 265 kilometres and 5,700 metres of climbing, with the Cote de Domancy\u2019s 2.5 kilometres at 9.4% repeated throughout.<\/p>\n

Vuelta redemption follows the rainbow-jersey bid<\/p>\n

The elite men\u2019s road race takes place on 29 August, with the Vuelta starting on 4 September. The Spanish race has moved entirely into September to accommodate the combined World Championships and will finish on 26 September.<\/p>\n

Pogacar won three stages before crashing out of this year\u2019s Vuelta on stage eight. He suffered a fractured collarbone, a stable cervical fracture and concussion, abandoning his attempt to add the Spanish title to his 2024 Giro d\u2019Italia victory and five Tour wins.<\/p>\n

He subsequently missed both the Worlds and the European Championships on home roads. \u201cOnce my shoulder had settled down, I started training on an indoor bike and soon felt tempted to race at the European Championships in Slovenia, but the fear of crashing again put me off,\u201d Pogacar said.<\/p>\n

Pogacar is now heading to the United Arab Emirates for team and sponsor commitments, with the gathering also providing an opportunity to shape the rest of his racing programme.<\/p>\n

His season opener and spring schedule have yet to be announced. Paris-Roubaix remains the only Monument missing from his palmares: Mathieu van der Poel beat him on his debut in 2025, before Wout van Aert left him with another second place this April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He will also pin on a race number again before the year is out, having confirmed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,1422,636,129545,32801,30127],"class_list":["post-937706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","tag-vuelta-a-espana","tag-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937706","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=937706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}