{"id":564884,"date":"2026-05-04T01:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564884\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:25:09","slug":"tadej-pogacar-explains-primoz-roglic-motivation-behind-tour-de-romandie-triumph-but-admits-to-pain-in-the-legs-after-florian-lipowitz-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564884\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar explains Primoz Roglic motivation behind Tour de Romandie triumph but admits to ‘pain in the legs’ after Florian Lipowitz battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I always admired this race’ – Pogacar on winning Tour de Romandie title<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

Pogacar dominated the race as he added another stage race win to his ever-growing palmares.<\/p>\n

It was a first success in Romandie<\/a> for Pogacar, who is a four-time Tour de France winner and also won Milano-Sanremo for the first time this season<\/a>.He revealed his intention at the race was to echo the achievements of fellow Slovenian Roglic<\/a>, who won the Tour of Romandie in 2018 and 2019.”It’s a World Tour stage race, it’s what suits me,” Pogacar<\/a> said. “I always admired the race since I was young, seeing Primoz win many times. <\/p>\n

“It was always beautiful to see on TV. I always wanted to come here to experience it, and to win.”<\/p>\n

Pogacar had to hold off the challenge of Florian Lipowitz in Sunday’s fifth stage, surging clear just before the finish line to win by three seconds.<\/p>\n

Asked if he was scared by the pressure applied by Lipowitz, Pogacar said: “Not scared. I knew I needed to go all out to the finish line in a hard final. <\/p>\n

“When he counter-attacked, it was really impressive, and there was pain in the legs, I must admit. <\/p>\n

“We worked a little bit together. I didn’t want to work too much in the final because I knew that I need to have a good kick in the end. I had to commit to the finish line but it was really long.”<\/p>\n

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\u2018Makes it look easy!\u2019 – Pogacar clinches Tour de Romandie title with Stage 5 victory<\/p>\n

Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

Roglic finished third, seven seconds behind Pogacar, who also won the points classification ahead of French sprinter Dorian Godon.<\/p>\n

It was a first stage race of the season for the 27-year-old, who was asked if he has the aim of eventually winning every stage race on the calendar.<\/p>\n

“Not really,” he said. “I don’t have Itzulia (Tour of the Basque Country), Tour Down Under, Tour of Poland, there is still a lot of big races left. <\/p>\n

“Let’s go one by one and see how far we can go.”<\/p>\n

Giving his thoughts on Romandie as a whole, Pogacar added: “It was really amazing, I think all the kids come throughout the week out of school.<\/p>\n

“This was super nice to see, in the weekend also the families with the kids, really nice fans and a lot of signs with my name so it was a pleasure to ride this week in Romandie”.<\/p>\n

Pogacar will hope he continues to perform with such consistency in the weeks building up to his defence of the Tour de France<\/a>, which begins on July 4 – live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pogacar added: “Every race is important.<\/p>\n

“It’s important to win and finish off the job of the team.”<\/p>\n

Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a> to enjoy more content like this.Stream<\/a> the 2026 cycling season live on TNT Sports and HBO Max<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I always admired this race’ – Pogacar on winning Tour de Romandie title Video credit: TNT Sports Pogacar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,193647,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-564884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-romandie-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564884","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=564884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}