{"id":379661,"date":"2026-01-20T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379661\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:48:07","slug":"tadej-pogacar-already-knows-who-will-be-his-right-hand-man-through-most-of-the-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379661\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar already knows who will be his right-hand man through most of the Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 road season will start later than expected for <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a>. The Slovenian will only pin on a number for the first time on March 7 at the Strade Bianche where the Slovenian aims for a fourth title, third in a row. The goal at <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-team-emirates-xrg\" title=\"UAE Team Emirates - XRG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG<\/a> is to keep him as fresh as possible for the spring Monuments: Milano\u2013Sanremo, Tour of Flandres, Paris\u2013Roubaix and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge.As is well known, the two-time world champion wants to win them all, so Sanremo and Roubaix are circled in red before the Tour de France. That does not mean he will underplay the other two. In fact, one of UAE\u2019s best domestiques will feature in three of the team\u2019s four Monument line-ups: <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/florian-vermeersch\" title=\"Florian Vermeersch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Vermeersch<\/a>.In 2025, Vermeersch completed his first year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-team-emirates-xrg\" title=\"UAE Team Emirates - XRG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG<\/a> jersey. He was key for <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tadej-pogacar\" title=\"Tadej Pogacar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Pogacar<\/a> at the Tour des Flandres and Paris\u2013Roubaix, finishing 5th in the Hell of the North. In 2026, his added target will be Milano\u2013Sanremo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 road season will start later than expected for Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian will only pin on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,123573,101,8782,12183,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-florian-vermeersch","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}