{"id":791798,"date":"2026-10-04T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791798\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:42:11","slug":"it-was-a-more-personal-decision-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791798\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a more personal decision of him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ultimately, UAE pulled the plug on Pogacar’s bid for a sensational return. But according to his national team, the propsect was very real over the past week.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, we all know that today he had a real desire to raise this race, but unfortunately he cannot,” Uro\u0161 Murn told CyclingProNet at the start.<\/a>\"TadejPogacar’s personal decision<\/p>\n

“Yes, it was [Pogacar’s possibility of returning from injury, Ed.]. I think it was the right decision for him. Even if we missed him here in the team, but I think he made the right decision.”<\/p>\n

Wide-ranging reports indicate that UAE did not allow Pogacar to ride, pointing to the dangers of interrupting his recovery with long-term goals in mind. However, when asked, Murn claimed that it became more of a personal decision for the two-time world champion.<\/p>\n

Murn confirmed: “I think it was a more personal decision of him.”<\/p>\n

The show goes on for Slovenia despite the absence of their star man. Filling his boots is Primoz Roglic<\/a>, who rode extremely well in Montreal at the front-end of racing. He carries that form into a home championships. However, keeping his cards close to his chest, Murn confirmed there are other options there for the team – including Vuelta breakthrough Jakob Omrzel.Slovenia have Roglic and other options<\/p>\n

“You know, it’s really an honour to be here, like the Slovenian national team, to race European Championships in your own country, and we are really proud of that.<\/p>\n

“I think we have a really good team here. We know that Primo\u017e is in really good shape, and we will hope for our best, but we will see. We have also other cards, but I will prefer not to tell you, because all the news are right away in other teams.”<\/p>\n

With five ascents of the circuit’s tough climb – averaging over ten percent for two kilometres – he thinks the race will be won in or around that. He expects Belgium to control the race for favourite Remco Evenepoel.<\/p>\n

“We are expecting that these five-time climbs will be the decision-makers, so we are focused there, and also after the climb, which is an important sector of the race.<\/p>\n

“I think, of course, they [Belgium, Ed.] are the main favourite, I think they will control the race, and we will adapt to that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ultimately, UAE pulled the plug on Pogacar’s bid for a sensational return. But according to his national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,109416,20996,101,8782,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-european-championships","tag-primoz-roglic","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791798","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=791798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}