L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/a>, winners of five designated sprint stages will earn 70 points instead of 50, while intermediate sprint bonuses rise from 20 to 25.<\/p>\nThe timing is hard to ignore.<\/p>\n
With Poga\u010dar in full beast mode and chasing a record-tying fifth yellow jersey, ASO seems eager to keep at least one prize in the hands of the fast men.<\/p>\n
In last year\u2019s classics-style route, Poga\u010dar finished second in the points classification behind Jonathan Milan \u2014 just 78 points back \u2014 beating pure sprinters like Biniam Girmay and Tim Merlier without really targeting the jersey.<\/p>\n
Will the new rules be enough?<\/p>\n
L\u2019\u00c9quipe recalculated last year\u2019s points under the new system, and Milan would have banked 80 additional points during the 2025 Tour. Poga\u010dar? Only 19.<\/p>\n
Plus, the biggest points hauls will come on five classic sprint stages finishing in Pau, Bordeaux, Bergerac, Nevers, and Chalon-sur-Sa\u00f4ne.<\/p>\n
Those are the days when Poga\u010dar is usually content to roll home safely in the bunch while the sprinters fight for glory.<\/p>\n
The points gap should be enough to keep the green jersey safely out of Poga\u010dar\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n
Should be is the key phrase.<\/p>\n
One record Merckx may keep
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Milan and Poga\u010dar shake hands during last year\u2019s Tour. The Italian won green, but Poga\u010dar finished his best ever in points. (Photo: LOIC VENANCE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Whether you see this as anti-Poga\u010dar or pro-sprinters probably depends on your point of view.<\/p>\n
Either way, ASO appears eager to keep the green jersey within reach of its traditional owners.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s easier said than done.<\/p>\n
Green is the only jersey missing in his growing collection.<\/p>\n
Poga\u010dar has never targeted green, but keeps bubbling up each year by simply winning so many stages and finishing within the top 10 in just about every key stage.<\/p>\n
Since 2022, Poga\u010dar has finished in the top 4 in the points competition every July.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s bagged three polka dots and won four white jerseys in a row until he eventually aged out of the young rider\u2019s category.<\/p>\n
He owns four yellow jerseys and enters this year\u2019s race as the favorite to join Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain as an official five-time winner.<\/p>\n
Only two riders have ever won yellow and green in the same year. Merckx pulled it off three times, and Hinault was the last in 1979.<\/p>\n
Merckx \u2014 of course \u2014 is the only rider to win yellow, green, and polka dot jerseys in the same year in 1969 in the Tour\u2019s ultimate podium sweep.<\/p>\n
ASO seems determined to keep it that way.<\/p>\n
Or perhaps Poga\u010dar will simply view that as a new challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The maillot vert is the only Tour de France jersey Poga\u010dar has yet to win. ASO just changed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[138632,4985,45284,101,219593,72946,219594,45287,60972,45288,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-audio-true","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-aso","tag-tag-eddy-merckx","tag-tag-green-jersey","tag-tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tag-tour-de-france","tag-type-article","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653244","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=653244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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