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UAE Team Emirates have unveiled the team heading into the Tour de France (1-21 July) which gets underway on Friday.

The team heads into the 21 stages led by the winner of the previous two editions of the race, Tadej Pogacar, with a mix of climbers and flat-terrain experts to support the Slovenian.

The 23-year-old will face challenges along the 3,328km course which begins in Copenhagen with a 13km time-trial before approaching the Alps via a cobbled stage through Arenberg and onto the Pyrenees before the surviving riders make it to the Champs Elysees in Paris for the ceremonial finish.

Team Manager Joxean Matxin Fernandez (Spa) will lead the squad alongside Sports Directors Andrej Hauptman (Slo), Simone Pedrazzini (Swi) and Marco Marcato (Ita). The team is comprised of 8 riders:

– Tadej Pogacar (Slo)

– Rafal Majka (Pol)

– Brandon McNulty (USA)

– Marc Soler (Spa)

– Matteo Trentin (Ita)

– Vegard Stake Laengen (Nor)

– George Bennett (NZ)

– Mikkel Bjerg (Den)

Tadej Pogacar said, ”It’s already my third time coming to the Tour and I’m really excited about it. We’ve worked really hard all year as a team to prepare for this and we hope we can give everyone watching 3 weeks of exciting racing. This year so far has been a positive one for the team and we are hoping to continue that here at the Tour. We know it won’t be easy and we’ll have many challenges but that is part of the magic of the Tour.”

Joxean Matxin Fernandez (Team Manager) said, “Every year the challenge to win the Tour gets harder, all we can do is prepare as best we can and trust our team to produce their best as a group. Our ambition is to win the overall title with Pogačar and we have built a strong team around him. Last year we had a great group and the base of the team is similar to last years with a few strong additions in key areas. We have studied the route and it’s far from an easy parcours. Also the level of our competitors is really high, but we are confident and know that a big result is well within the capabilities of Tadej and the team.”

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Tadej Pogacar leads UAE Team Emirates line-up for 2023 Tour de France

Slovenian supported by combination of climbers and flat-terrain experts in bid for third title in four years.

Tadej Pogacar is aiming to win his third Tour de France title in four years after winning the race in 2020 and 2021. EPA

Tadej Pogacar leads an experienced team for the 2023 Tour de France after UAE Team Emirates announced its eight-rider line-up for the race on Monday.

Pogacar, the two-time Tour de France champion, will aim to win the world's most prestigious road race for a third time in four years having been narrowly beaten last year by Team Jumbo-Visma's Jonas Vingegaard. The 2023 tour begins on Saturday in Bilbao, Spain.

The 24-year-old Slovenian will be supported by a combination of climbers and flat-terrain experts.

Assistance in the mountains will come from Polish rider Rafal Majka – winner of the tour's mountain classification in 2014 and 2016 – Britain's Adam Yates, who won the white jersey for best young rider in 2014 and has 11 grand tour stage victories to his name, 2022 Austrian national champion Felix Grossschartner, and Spain's Marc Soler.

UAE Team Emirates' best chances of success in the flat stages will likely come from Italian sprinter Matteo Trentin, who has won three stages at the Tour de France and is a former European Road Race champion. Denmark's Mikkel Bjerg and Norwegian Vegard Stake Laengen complete the line-up.

Sports manager Joxean Matxin Fernandez will lead the squad alongside sports directors Andrej Hauptman, Simone Pedrazzini, and Marco Marcato.

“The Tour is one of the biggest events in world sport and we’re very pleased and excited to be a part of it," Pogacar said. "As a team we have worked so hard to prepare and everything is where it needs to be, we have a very good group. There will be some serious competitors but that will always be the case in the biggest races. We are going there to put on a good show and of course with the aim of victory.”

Pogacar, the world's top-ranked road cyclist, is one of the leading favourites to win the 2023 Tour de France, which is expected to be a direct battle between the Slovenian and defending champion Vingegaard.

Pogacar has had a remarkably successful season so far, claiming 12 victories and making history along the way before sustaining a broken wrist during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege in April. He returned last week to collect wins 13 and 14 by completing the National Championships double, winning the time trial and road race .

The 2023 Tour de France will comprise 21 stages, starting with a 182km hill stage in Bilbao. There will be a total of eight flat stages, four hilly stages, eight mountain stages with four summit finishes (Cauterets-Cambasque, Puy de Dome, Grand Colombier and Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc), and one individual time trial. The 21st and final stage will conclude in Paris on July 23.

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Adam Yates: UAE Team Emirates' Tour de France team will be a bit of a challenge

British climber discusses the plethora of climbing options at their disposal in France, whilst affirming his own position and reflecting on the best season of his career to date

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Adam Yates celebrates winning stage 1 of the 2023 Tour de France with teammates Tadej Pogačar (left) and Rafał Majka (centre)

Following Visma-Lease a Bike 's tradition of announcing their preliminary Tour de France squad many months in advance, UAE Team Emirates unveiled their eight-man line-up at the squad's December training camp in Altea, Spain, earlier this week. Amongst its number is the third-placed finisher from this year's Tour de France, Adam Yates , who gave his initial reaction to the news in discussion with GCN .

"I think it will be good, I mean I think it will be a bit of a challenge," Yates said. "Last year, we had almost like the perfect team in a way, with the big guys, the medium guys and the climbers. So, next year will be a little bit different with a lot more climbers, but we'll see."

As Yates refers to, UAE Team Emirates' line-up is certainly weighted towards its flotilla of climbing talent, with rouleurs Tim Wellens and Nils Politt joined by no less than six riders whose most favourable terrain is the mountains: Yates, Tadej Pogačar , Pavel Sivakov, Marc Soler, Juan Ayuso and João Almeida.

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Tadej Pogacar

Joao Almeida

Pavel Sivakov

Nils Politt

Tim Wellens

This goes against the grain of usual Tour de France-winning squads, who compliment their lightweight mountain goats with a handy selection of riders who are at their best when the road does not go uphill.

For example, in Jumbo-Visma's team to support Jonas Vingegaard 's winning ride this year, the Dutch squad paired climbers Sepp Kuss and Wilco Kelderman with strong heavyweights such as Dylan van Baarle, Nathan van Hooydonck and Tiesj Benoot. For UAE Team Emirates, a lot will be expected of Wellens and Politt should the team have to control the peloton for days on end, a task that would be wasted on the likes of Sivakov.

In addition, eyebrows were raised at the calibre of those climbers named in support of Pogačar, with Ayuso, Almeida and Sivakov arguably strong enough to warrant Grand Tour leadership at Grand Tour level for many of the other WorldTeams.

This is not a question of what is fair and unfair, but more so a question mark over how UAE Team Emirates will balance the ambitions and expectations of so many would-be contenders. Ayuso and Almeida are both Grand Tour podium finishers, but so too is Yates, and the 31-year-old does not see his role changing as a result of their inclusions.

"Last year was super nice, everyone knew their role," Yates said, acknowledging his position as the team's second-in-command. "So we all had a role, we all had a job and I think for me, my role doesn’t really change.

"So for me, my preparation and what I’ve been told I need to do doesn’t change. So for me, personally, nothing changes. But obviously, we have to deal with different riders and different riding styles for next year, but we’ll see."

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It is no surprise to hear that Yates will likely be second-in-line at UAE Team Emirates in the Tour de France, after all, the Brit is in many ways the perfect teammate for Pogačar in his conquest to overcome Visma-Lease a Bike's Vingegaard. One of the best climbers in the world in his own right, Yates is a selfless teammate who is as happy to put his team leader first as he is to grasp the opportunities he is afforded with both hands - or legs.

"The team we had last year was pretty much perfect in terms of the atmosphere and the personalities we had in the team. So it was super easy for us to get on," Yates said. "Even on the first stage, the race has barely begun and I've asked for an opportunity to try something, and everyone's agreed and everyone’s happy for me to try something.

"I rewarded them with a stage win and a few days in yellow, when you have that trust with the riders and the staff, you can do something special like this."

Adam Yates may have been the only one of the pair to pull on yellow this season, but there is never any doubt as to where Yates' loyalties lie when it comes to Tadej Pogačar

Time will tell whether or not UAE Team Emirates are able to capture the same team spirit in 2024 as delivered second and third in Paris this year, but whilst the personnel involved in their mount on yellow will change, there is one thing that remains exactly the same - Yates' unwavering confidence in team leader, Pogačar.

'We back Tadej Pogačar 100 per cent,' Yates says of Giro-Tour double

Next year will see Pogačar attempt to become the first rider since Marco Pantani to win both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same season, with the Slovenian ready to complete a lap of Italy before turning his attention to defeating reigning champion Vingegaard in France.

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The decision has seen many conclude that Pogačar's hopes of winning a third Tour de France title have suffered a blow, that if a fit and firing Pogačar can't get the better of the Dane in the Tour, then a Pogačar with Giro fatigue in his legs stands an even slimmer chance. But for Yates, there is no reason to question Pogačar's decision.

"For me, it’s no problem at all, I think if he wants to do that, then let him do it. He’s the best bike rider in the world for a reason, if he knows he can do Giro-Tour and still perform at the highest level, then we back him 100 per cent.

"There’s not many people that can win Flanders, Amstel, Lombardy and then go to the Tour and fight for GC. I don’t think there’s many riders in the history of the sport that can do that, so for me, he has to be the best bike rider in the world."

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Where Pogačar fell short of his title bid at the Tour earlier this summer, Yates produced the best Grand Tour ride of his career to clinch the first overall podium of his career. Not only did Yates stand on the podium in Paris, but the man from Bury was able to win stage 1 and spend four days in the yellow jersey, an experience that Yates still struggles to truly put into words.

"As a kid you grow up and look up to the yellow jersey, so the mood is super nice and it was a really nice honour to wear. I also wore it for a few days in the Covid year in 2020, that was also a nice experience, but what can you say? You can’t really say anything can you?"

"It’s super nice and the nicest thing this time was that it was stage 1. It’s so chaotic and so messy, just to get through the stage without having an incident, a crash or something going wrong. Also being up there with Simon [Yates, his brother, who finished second on the day], it was really nice."

Yates happy to see consistency rewarded in 2023

Speaking to GCN from UAE Team Emirates' training camp on the Costa Blanca, Yates is in a noticeably chipper mood and more than happy to offer his time to the press pack who have gathered in the team's hotel. Why so cheery?

"Today, I was strong in training. We'll see tomorrow!" Yates joked.

Perhaps though, a contributing factor is the season that Yates has just enjoyed with his new teammates, having only joined UAE Team Emirates at the beginning of 2023. Hitting the ground running at the UAE Tour and performing with a consistency he has perhaps lacked in the past, has it been his best season to date?

"I think so," he answered. "My actual level has not gone that much higher, but it’s just that I’ve been really consistent throughout the year, which I've struggled with in the past. So for me, it's been a nice change not being sick and not being injured at key moments of the year, and that’s made a big difference this year."

Adam Yates has 23 pro victories to his name, the latest being the GP de Montréal in early September

The past few seasons for the Brit are perhaps indicative of the importance of fate being on a rider's side. For all the analysis of performances, watts per kilo and tactics, cycling is often a sport that comes down to chance.

After making a name for himself at GreenEdge as a youngster, Yates transferred to Ineos Grenadiers in 2021 and flourished, winning the Volta a Catalunya and finishing on the podium of Il Lombardia to round out the campaign.

But in his second and final season with Ineos, Yates suffered setback after setback, which came to a head with a bout of Covid just prior to the Tour de France. A reasonable ninth-place finish followed, but this year's podium finish at the Tour demonstrated the rider's true worth.

Per Yates' own conclusion, "nothing went wrong" for the Brit this season, offering him the opportunity to demonstrate his craft. Away from the Tour, Yates won the Tour de Romandie - adding to his burgeoning collection of stage race victories - finished second at the Critérium du Dauphiné and won the GP Montréal during a rich vein of late-season form.

A Grand Tour win is possible

Now 31 years of age, Yates is undoubtedly one of the best stage racers in the world and capable of picking off the odd big one-day victory, but the question remains: can he win a Grand Tour?

"With the level I have shown this year, it's possible," said Yates. But it's one thing saying it and one thing doing it. I know I have the level to do it, but it’s the circumstances, the parcours, how you ride as a team - all these little things make a big difference."

Next year will mark eight years since Adam Yates finished fourth at the Tour de France, but there remains much hope that the man from Bury can become Great Britain's latest Grand Tour winner

Cycling is a different sport from when Yates first burst onto the scene with a fourth-place finish at the 2016 Tour de France, indeed, it is vastly different from when Yates' brother Simon won the Vuelta a España in 2018. At 31, Yates is no fool and understands that the next few years will be make or break for his chances of winning a three-week stage race.

"Now these last few years all these young guys come straight from juniors and start winning, because they have a full nutrition plan and altitude camps when they’re 15 years old. My upbringing was a little bit different, I did my first altitude camp when I was second-year pro, and these guys are doing it when they’re juniors!

"I’m getting better every year, I just hope that next year I can go again one step higher and then the results hopefully will come."

Alongside the Tour de France and the Olympic Games, Yates may target the Vuelta a España in 2024, a race which could offer the 31-year-old an opportunity to be the outright leader for UAE Team Emirates.

Read more: Adam Yates, Vine, Sivakov, Almeida all eye up Vuelta a España as UAE Team Emirates place Grand Tour pawns

After having put tens of riders to the sword at this year's Tour, few could argue that Yates has what it takes to chase his own GC ambitions. But as grounded as ever, the former yellow jersey wearer is not a man to boast his own confidence. Instead, he likes to reserve his talking for out on the road and hopes that 2024 will afford him the same opportunity to do so.

"Hopefully next year, I have no bad luck. I don’t want no bad luck or good luck, I just want to be in the middle and neutral!"

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Tour de France 2023 team guide: Start list, star riders for Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, Ineos and all 22 teams

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TEAM ARKEA SAMSIC

• Warren Barguil
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• Laurent Pichon
• Simon Guglielmi
• Jenthe Biermans
• Luca Mozzato*
• Matis Louvel*

TEAM DSM-FIRMENICH

• Romain Bardet
• John Degenkolb
• Matthew Dinham*
• Alexander Edmondson
• Nils Eekhoff*
• Chris Hamilton
• Kevin Vermaerke
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TEAM JAYCO ALULA

• Simon Yates
• Dylan Groenewegen
• Luka Mezgec
• Elmar Reinders
• Lawson Craddock
• Luke Durbridge
• Chris Harper
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UAE TEAM EMIRATES

• Tadej Pogacar*
• Vegard Stake Laengen
• Felix Grossschartner
• Mikkel Bjerg*
• Rafal Majka
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‘Wow’ – Vingegaard allows Pogacar to catch up after crash in ‘incredible’ gesture

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• Jacopo Guarnieri
• Florian Vermeersch*
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• Alexander Kristoff
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• Soren Waerenskjold*
• Jonas Abrahamsen
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• Jonas Gregaard
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• Rasmus Tiller

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2023 Edition

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Tour Culture

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• Intermediate sprint 1
• Stages victory 1
• Victories 21

2014. Orica GreenEDGE

1 er of the GP Industria & Artigianato, of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye, of the sixth stage of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye (Bodrum>Selcuk)

2 e of the third stage of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye (Finike>Elmali)

3 e of the eighth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Megève>Courchevel Le Praz), of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Sisteron>La Mure)

4 e of the sixth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Santa Clarita>Mountain High), of the third stage of the Amgen Tour of California (San Jose>Mount Diablo)

5 e of the Giro della Toscana - Memorial Alfredo Martini, of the Amgen Tour of California

6 e of the National Championships Great Britain - Road Race, of the Critérium du Dauphiné

7 e of the fifth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Llanars–Vall de Camprodon>Valls)

8 e of the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Tarare>Pays d'Olliergues-Col du Béal)

13 e of the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Santa Clarita>Pasadena)

17 e of the third stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Banyoles>La Molina (Alp))

18 e of the seventh stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Ville-la-Grand>Finaut-Émosson)

19 e of the eighth stage of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Türkiye (Istanbul>Istanbul)

20 e of the sixth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Benalmádena>La Zubia (Cumbres Verdes))

21 e of the twenty-first stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Santiago de Compostela>Santiago de Compostela [ITT]), of the eighth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Thousand Oaks>Thousand Oaks)

22 e of the sixth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (El Vendrell>Vilanova i la Geltrú)

23 e of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

24 e of the fifth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Pismo Beach>Santa Barbara)

2015. Orica GreenEDGE

1 er of the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa

2 e of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

7 e of the tenth stage of the Tour de France (Tarbes>La Pierre-Saint-Martin), of the eighth stage of the Tour de France (Rennes>Mûr-de-bretagne), of the fifth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Esanatoglia>Terminillo)

9 e of the Tirreno-Adriatico

10 e of the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France (Digne-Les-Bains>Pra-Loup), of the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Indicatore>Castelraimondo)

20 e of the Critérium du Dauphiné

22 e of the twentieth stage of the Tour de France (Modane>l'Alpe d'Huez)

25 e of the sixth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur>Villard-de-Lans - Vercors), of the first stage of the Tour des Fjords (Bergen>Norheimsund)

2016. Orica GreenEDGE

3 e of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (La Ravoire>Vaujany), of the third stage of the Tour de Yorkshire (Middlesbrough>Scarborough)

4 e of the Tour de France, of the Tour de Yorkshire, of the sixth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Eibar>Eibar [ITT])

5 e of the seventh stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Le Pont>Superdévoluy)

6 e of the Faun Drôme Classic

7 e of the eighth stage of the Tour de France (Pau>Bagnères-de-Luchon), of the Critérium du Dauphiné, of the Faun-Ardèche Classic

8 e of the fifth stage of the Tour de France (Limoges>Le Lioran), of the sixth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (La Rochette>Méribel), of the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Les Gets>Les Gets)

10 e of the ninth stage of the Tour de France (Vielha val d'Aran>Andorra Arcalis)

11 e of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France (Montpellier>Chalet-Reynard (Mont Ventoux)), of the GP Industria & Artigianato

12 e of the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France (Berne>Finhaut-Emosson)

13 e of the twentieth stage of the Tour de France (Megève>Morzine), of the nineteenth stage of the Tour de France (Albertville>Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc), of the second stage of the Tour de France (Saint-Lô>Cherbourg), of the first stage of the Tour de Yorkshire (Beverley>Settle), of the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Camaiore>Pomarance)

15 e of the Olympic Games Road Race, of the eleventh stage of the Tour de France (Carcassonne>Montpellier), of the Gran Premio Miguel Indurain

16 e of the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa, of the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France (Sallanches>Megève [ITT])

18 e of the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France (Bourg-Saint-Andeol>Le Caverne de Pont d'Arc [ITT]), of the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Castelraimondo>Cepagatti)

19 e of the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France (Moirans-en-Montagne>Berne), of the Tirreno-Adriatico

20 e of the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Crêches-sur-Saône>Chalmazal-Jeansagnière)

21 e of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France (Bourg-en-Bresse>Culoz), of the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France (Montélimar>Villars-les-Dombes Parc des Oiseaux), of the first stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Etxebarria>Markina-Xemein)

2017. ORICA-Scott

1 er of the GP Industria & Artigianato

2 e of the Milano - Torino, of the seventh stage of the Tour de Pologne (Bukowina Tatrzanska>Bukowina Tatrzanska)

3 e of the third stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Mataró>La Molina), of the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Montalto di Castro>Terminillo)

4 e of the fifteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Valdengo>Bergamo), of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya

5 e of the Tour de Pologne, of the fifth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Valls>Lo Port (Tortosa))

6 e of the fourteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Castellania>Oropa), of the sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Reggio Calabria>Terme Luigiane)

7 e of the twentieth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Pordenone>Asiago), of the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Camaiore>Pomarance)

8 e of the third stage of the Tour de Pologne (Jaworzno>Szczyrk), of the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Molfetta>Peschici), of the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Cefalù>Etna), of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège

9 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de Pologne (Wieliczka>Zakopane), of the Prueba Villafranca - Ordiziako Klasika, of the Giro d'Italia, of the sixteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Rovetta>Bormio)

11 e of the third stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Prades Conflent Canigó>Andorra la Vella)

12 e of the eighteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Moena>Ortisei/St. Urlich)

13 e of the sixth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Vila-Real>Sagunt), of the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Pedara>Messina)

14 e of the seventh stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Barcelona>Barcelona)

15 e of the nineteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (San Candido/Innichen>Piancavallo), of the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia (Castrovillari>Alberobello)

16 e of the ninth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Orihuela>Cumbre del Sol (Alto de Puig Llorença))

17 e of the twelfth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Forlì>Reggio Emilia), of the tenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Foligno>Montefalco [ITT])

18 e of the fifth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Benicàssim>Alcossebre)

19 e of the tenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Caravaca Jubilar>ElPozo Alimentación (Alhama de Murcia)), of the third stage of the Giro d'Italia (Tortolì>Cagliari), of the second stage of the Giro d'Italia (Olbia>Tortoli)

20 e of the sixth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Tortosa>Reus)

22 e of the fifteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Alcalá la Real>Sierra Nevada. Alto Hoya de la Mora), of the seventh stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Llíria>Cuenca)

23 e of the eighth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Hellín>Xorret de Catí), of the eleventh stage of the Giro d'Italia (Firenze>Bagno di Romagna), of the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Montenero di Bisaccia>Blockhaus), of the fourth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (La Seu d'Urgell>Igualada)

24 e of the thirteenth stage of the Giro d'Italia (Reggio Emilia>Tortona)

2018. Mitchelton-Scott

1 er of the seventh stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Moûtiers>Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc (Montée du Bettex)), of the fifth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Castelraimondo>Filottrano)

2 e of the Critérium du Dauphiné, of the sixth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Folsom>South Lake Tahoe), of the third stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Follonica>Trevi), of the fourth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Orihuela>Cocentaina)

3 e of the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France (Carcassonne>Bagnères-de-Luchon), of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Grenoble>Valmorel), of the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Ventura>Gilbratar Road)

4 e of the Amgen Tour of California, of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

5 e of the sixth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Frontenex>La Rosière Espace San Bernardo), of the Tirreno-Adriatico

6 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Brest>Mûr de Bretagne), of the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Chazey-sur-Ain>Lans-en-Vercors), of the third stage of the Amgen Tour of California (King City>Laguna Seca Recreation Area (Monterey County))

9 e of the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Foligno>Sarnano Sassotetto)

10 e of the second stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Bétera>Albuixech)

11 e of the twentieth stage of the Tour de France (Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle>Espelette [ITT])

13 e of the fifteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Ribera de Arriba>Lagos de Covadonga), of the tenth stage of the Tour de France (Annecy>Le Grand-Bornand)

14 e of the Milano - Torino

16 e of the fifth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Stockton>Elk Grove)

20 e of the nineteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Lleida>Andorra. Naturlandia)

21 e of the seventeenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Getxo>Balcón de Bizkaia), of the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Sacramento>Sacramento), of the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Long Beach>Long Beach), of the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Numana>Fano)

22 e of the second stage of the Tour de France (Mouilleron-Saint-Germain>La Roche-sur-Yon), of the fourth stage of the Amgen Tour of California (San José>Morgan Hill [ITT])

24 e of the second stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Mataró>Valls)

2019. Mitchelton-Scott

1 er of the Cro Race, of the fifth stage of the Cro Race (Rabac>Platak), of the sixth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Eibar>Eibar), of the third stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Sant Feliu de Guixols>Vallter 2000 (Setcases)), of the fourth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Vila-Real>Alcala-Alcocebre)

2 e of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, of the Tirreno-Adriatico, of the fifth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Colli al Metauro>Recanati)

3 e of the Milano - Torino, of the fifth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Arrigorriaga>Arrate), of the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Foligno>Fossombrone)

4 e of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, of the fourth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz>Arrigorriaga), of the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Armilla>Granada)

5 e of the Itzulia Basque Country, of the first stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Zumarraga>Zumarraga [ITT]), of the fourth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Llanars (Vall de Camprodon)>La Molina (Alp)), of the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Camaiore>Pomarance), of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol, of the third stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Mancha Real>La Guardia de Jaén [ITT])

6 e of the seventh stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Saint-Genix-les-Villages>Pipay), of the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Roanne>Roanne [ITT])

7 e of the sixth stage of the Cro Race (Sveta Nedelja>Zagreb), of the third stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Sarriguren>Estibaliz), of the seventh stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Barcelona>Barcelona)

8 e of the sixth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Saint-Vulbas>Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne), of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

10 e of the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Mauriac>Craponne-sur-Arzon)

11 e of the fifth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Puigcerdà>Sant Cugat del Vallès)

12 e of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Boën-sur-Lignon>Voiron)

13 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Mulhouse>La Planche des Belles Filles)

14 e of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, of the sixth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Valls>Vila-seca)

15 e of the Il Lombardia, of the third stage of the Cro Race (Okrug>Makarska), of the twentieth stage of the Tour de France (Albertville>Val Thorens)

16 e of the eighth stage of the Tour de France (Mâcon>Saint-Étienne)

18 e of the first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Sanlúcar de Barramed>Alcalá de los Gazules)

19 e of the fourth stage of the Cro Race (Starigrad>Gorski Kotar)

20 e of the first stage of the Cro Race (Osijek>Lipik)

21 e of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

23 e of the tenth stage of the Tour de France (Saint-Flour>Albi), of the second stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Mataró>Sant Feliu de Guixols)

25 e of the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France (Tarbes>Col du Tourmalet), of the third stage of the Tour de France (Binche>Épernay), of the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Matelica>Jesi)

2020. Mitchelton-Scott

1 er of the UAE Tour, of the third stage of the UAE Tour (Al Qudra Cycle Track>Jebel Hafeet)

3 e of the second stage of the Tour de France (Nice>Nice), of the fifth stage of the UAE Tour (Al Ain>Jebel Hafeet)

8 e of the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France (Grenoble>Méribel - Col de la Loze), of the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France (Lyon>Grand Colombier), of the second stage of the UAE Tour (Hatta>Hatta Dam)

9 e of the Tour de France, of the seventh stage of the Tour de France (Millau>Lavaur)

10 e of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Le Teil>Mont Aigoual), of the fourth stage of the Tour de France (Sisteron>Orcières-Merlette)

11 e of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Megève>Megève)

12 e of the eighth stage of the Tour de France (Cazères>Loudenvielle)

15 e of the ninth stage of the Tour de France (Pau>Laruns)

17 e of the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France (Méribel>La Roche-sur-Foron), of the fifth stage of the Tour de France (Gap>Privas), of the Critérium du Dauphiné

20 e of the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France (Châtel-Guyon>Pas de Peyrol (Le Puy Mary))

21 e of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France (Chauvigny>Sarran)

23 e of the twentieth stage of the Tour de France (Lure>La Planche des Belles Filles [ITT]), of the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Vienne>Col de Porte)

24 e of the eleventh stage of the Tour de France (Châtelaillon-Plage>Poitiers)

2021. INEOS Grenadiers

1 er of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, of the third stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Canal Olimpic de Catalunya>Vallter 2000)

2 e of the UAE Tour, of the third stage of the UAE Tour (Strata Manufactoring>Jebel Hafeet), of the Milano - Torino

3 e of the twentieth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Sanxenxo>Mos. Castro de Herville), of the fifth stage of the UAE Tour (Fujairah Marine Club>Jebel Jais), of the Il Lombardia

4 e of the Giro dell'Emilia, of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España, of the seventeenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Unquera>Lagos de Covadonga), of the fifteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Navalmoral de la Mata>El Barraco), of the Itzulia Basque Country, of the sixth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Ondarroa>Arrate (Eibar)), of the third stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Amurrio>Ermualde (Laudio)), of the fourth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Ripoll>Port Ainé)

5 e of the eleventh stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Antequera>Valdepeñas de Jaén)

6 e of the ninth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Puerto-Lumbreras>Alto de Velefique), of the first stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Bilbao>Bilbao [ITT])

7 e of the second stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Banyoles>Banyoles [ITT])

8 e of the third stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Santo Domingo de Silos>Picón Blanco)

9 e of the Olympic Games Road Race, of the seventh stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Barcelona>Barcelona)

10 e of the eighteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Salas>Altu d'El Gamoniteiru)

11 e of the fifth stage of the Vuelta a Burgos (Comunero de Revenga>Lagunas de Neila)

12 e of the first stage of the UAE Tour (Al Dhafra Castle>Al Mirfa)

13 e of the sixth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Requena>Alto de la Montaña de Cullera), of the second stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Zalla>Sestao)

15 e of the seventh stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Gandía>Balcón de Alicante)

16 e of the first stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Burgos>Burgos [ITT])

18 e of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège

19 e of the thirteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Belmez>Villanueva de la Serena)

20 e of the La Flèche Wallonne, of the sixth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Tarragona>Mataró)

21 e of the fourteenth stage of the La Vuelta Ciclista a España (Don Benito>Pico Villuercas)

23 e of the sixth stage of the UAE Tour (Deira Island>Palm Jumeirah)

25 e of the fourth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz>Hondarribia), of the fifth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (La Pobla de Segur>Manresa)

2022. INEOS Grenadiers

1 er of the Deutschland Tour, of the third stage of the Deutschland Tour (Freiburg>Schauinsland)

2 e of the UAE Tour, of the seventh stage of the UAE Tour (Al Ain>Jebel Hafeet), of the fourth stage of the UAE Tour (Fujairah Fort>Jebel Jais)

4 e of the Paris-Nice, of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

5 e of the first stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Hondarribia>Hondarribia [ITT]), of the fourth stage of the Deutschland Tour (Schiltach>Stuttgart), of the eleventh stage of the Tour de France (Albertville>Col du Granon)

6 e of the Tre Valli Varesine

7 e of the second stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Leitza>Viana), of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, of the prologue of the Deutschland Tour (Weimar>Weimar)

8 e of the eighth stage of the Paris-Nice (Nice>Nice), of the seventh stage of the Paris-Nice (Nice>Col de Turini), of the ninth stage of the Tour de France (Aigle>Châtel les portes du Soleil)

9 e of the Tour de France, of the seventh stage of the Tour de France (Tomblaine>La Super Planche des Belles Filles)

10 e of the Il Lombardia

11 e of the first stage of the Tour de Suisse (Küsnacht>Küsnacht)

12 e of the third stage of the UAE Tour (Ajman>Ajman [ITT]), of the fifth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Zamudio>Mallabia), of the sixth stage of the Tour de France (Binche>Longwy), of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France (Briançon>L'Alpe d'Huez)

13 e of the first stage of the Tour de France (Copenhagen>Copenhagen [ITT]), of the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France (Lourdes>Hautacam)

16 e of the third stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Llodio>Amurrio), of the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice (Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert>Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut)

17 e of the eighth stage of the Tour de France (Dole>Lausanne)

19 e of the fourth stage of the Paris-Nice (Domérat>Montluçon [ITT]), of the second stage of the Deutschland Tour (Meiningen>Marburg)

20 e of the fourth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country (Vitoria-Gasteiz>Zamudio), of the second stage of the Tour de France (Roskilde>Nyborg), of the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France (Saint-Gaudens>Peyragudes)

22 e of the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France (Carcassonne>Foix)

23 e of the second stage of the Paris-Nice (Auffargis>Orléans)

24 e of the tenth stage of the Tour de France (Morzine>Megève)

2023. UAE Team Emirates

1 er of the seventh stage of the UAE Tour (Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium>Jebel Hafeet), of the Tour de Romandie, of the fourth stage of the Tour de Romandie (Sion>Thyon 2000)

2 e of the Critérium du Dauphiné, of the seventh stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Porte-de-Savoie>Col de la Croix de Fer)

3 e of the UAE Tour, of the third stage of the UAE Tour (Umbrella Beach Al Fujairah>Jebel Jais), of the fourth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Greccio>Tortoreto), of the third stage of the Tour de Romandie (Châtel-Saint-Denis>Châtel-Saint-Denis [ITT]), of the eighth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Le Pont-de-Claix>La Bastille – Grenoble Alpes Métropole)

5 e of the second stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Mataró>Vallter)

6 e of the sixth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Nantua>Crest-Voland)

8 e of the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Cormoranche-sur-Saône>Salins-les-Bains), of the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Cours>Belmont-de-la-Loire [ITT])

11 e of the Tirreno-Adriatico, of the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Osimo Stazione>Osimo), of the fifth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico (Morro d'Oro>Sassotetto - Fonte Lardina)

12 e of the fifth stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Tortosa>Lo Port)

16 e of the third stage of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Olost>La Molina (Alp))

25 e of the fifth stage of the Tour de Romandie (Vufflens-la-Ville>Genève), of the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné (Chambon-sur-Lac>Chambon-sur-Lac)

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UAE Team Emirates Secures Rising Star Isaac del Toro with Record Contract Extension

The Mexican cyclist’s phenomenal performance this season has earned him the longest deal in WorldTour cycling.

First, a little over three months ago, the twenty-year-old Mexican racer made his WorldTour debut at Santos Tour Down Under, where he won the second stage, en route to taking the young rider jersey and finishing third in the general classification. Then, in March, he finished second in the young rider classification and fourth overall at Tirreno-Adriatico . Now, just a few days after finishing sixth in the Giro della Romagna, his team announced they’ve signed Del Toro to a three-year contract extension that will keep him with UAE through the 2029 season.

“Since coming to the team everything has been like a dream, it has been perfect. I’m very grateful for the team for showing me the trust and giving me the opportunity to be part of this special group, it feels amazing,” said Del Toro. “I am learning every day and still have I’m taking it all in and enjoying as much as possible with my feet on the ground and a lot of excitement for what is to come.”

With six years now remaining on his deal, this makes del Toro the holder of the longest contract across both the men’s and women’s WorldTour pelotons.

Four of the sport’s biggest names— Jonas Vingegaard , Mathieu van der Poel , Lotte Kopecky , and Lorena Wiebes —all have deals through 2028.

“We are very pleased to announce that Isaac will continue in the UAE colors for years to come,” said UAE Team Emirates principal and CEO Mauro Gianetti. “We knew already his capability as a rider and his level of talent and his progression has been very impressive so far and we feel he has integrated very well into the team since his arrival.

“He is still young, and the plan is to continue to learn and grow as a rider and as a person in a good environment,” Gianetti continued. We continue to be committed to our project to develop young talent and build for the future.”

Del Toro hails from Ensenada, a mid-sized city on the northern end of the Baja California peninsula just over two hours south of San Diego. He’s a noted climber, but early results and performances indicate that UAE might be looking to del Toro as their GC contender of the future. After all, he’ll be just 26 when his contract expires in 2029.

Racing for the San Marino-based Continental team A.R. Monex Pro Cycling, Del Toro won last year’s Tour l’Avenir. He also took the points and mountains classifications and won the race’s sixth stage.

Following that performance, del Toro signed a three-year deal with UAE Team Emirates.

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Not Just Pogi’s Water Boys: UAE Emirates’ New Generation Lays Warning with Asturian Annihilation

Overall victory and three wins in three days by 2000s babies del toro, morgado, fisher-black puts worldtour on watch for seasons to come..

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UAE Emirates’ youth crew fired a flare over the future of the WorldTour with an all-out annihilation of the Vuelta a Asturias.

Three stage-wins in three days from Isaac del Toro , Antonio Morgado, and Finn Fisher-Black as well as overall victory by Mexican mega-talent Del Toro proved UAE Emirates has most definitely become more than just “the team of Tadej Pogačar “.

“It was a really beautiful race where the team was really strong and did a great job. They worked so well that they made it a case of me being the one to finish it off,” Del Toro said Sunday.

Fisher-Black galloped to the stage-win on the final day of racing in northern Spain on Sunday while 20-year-old WorldTour rookie Del Toro was able to celebrate his recent mammoth contract extension with his first pro GC win.

Oh, and just to sweeten the Spanish race further for UAE Emirates, veteran Polish climber and Pogi’s mountain mega-domestique Rafal Majka placed second overall.

“It’s a big deal for me as it’s my first GC win at this level and it means a lot,” Del Toro said. “I was really happy to be able to help my teammates win stages also and celebrate these nice moments with them. They really deserved it.

“I’m really happy to get the win and I hope to continue this way for the next races.”

Sure, so the opposition in the 2.1-rated Asturias tour wasn’t much to be hyped for.

UAE Emirates and Movistar were the only WorldTour squads at the startlist in a peloton packed with cross-European conti teams.

But you can only beat who’s at the startline, and UAE Emirates’ crop of 2000s babies blew them all out of the water in a race that will have rival “mega squads” like Visma-Lease a Bike taking note.

That first professional GC title feeling @ISAACDELTOROx1 . #UAETeamEmirates #WeAreUAE #VueltaAsturias2024 pic.twitter.com/z2oosG1DKh — @UAE-TeamEmirates (@TeamEmiratesUAE) April 28, 2024

Does UAE Emirates lead the super-teams’ search for the next Tour de France dominator?

UAE Emirates and Del Toro harvested headlines last week when the Tour de l’Avenir champ signed the WorldTour’s longest contract to pledge himself to the team through 2029.

Portuguese prodigy and fellow 20-year-old Morgado is booked in with the Emirati team almost as long with his whopper contract to 2027.

Team brass at UAE Emirates will be purring with pleasure this week.

Its faces for the future just annihilated the Asturias.

And team talisman of the present Pogačar is in the spotlight ahead of his hugely hyped Giro d’Italia debut and his quest to double the corsa rosa with the Tour de France.

The state-backed squad has one of the biggest budgets in the peloton and has bought in a lot of wildly successful stars – Adam Yates, João Almeida, and more.

But a large part of its success is at the lens of its eagle-eyed recruitment staff.

The team beat the world to Pogačar in 2019 and snapped up Morgado, Fisher-Black, and Del Toro before they blew into the big-time. It’s the same story for 19-year-old Jan Christen and grand tour-botherer Juan Ayuso.

UAE Emirates isn’t the only top team to buy into the youth boom. Visma-Lease a Bike and Ineos Grenadiers are also packing their benches with fresh-faced future winners.

The British team has Josh Tarling and U.S. duo A.J. August and Magnus Sheffield, while grand tour dominators Visma-Lease a Bike has a rosy future with Per Strand Hagenes and Cian Uijtdebroeks.

But none of those Gen-Z-ers seems to have come of age quite as quickly, or as exuberantly, as Del Toro and Co. did in the Asturias last week.

Pogačar won’t be going anywhere any time soon.

But if and when he does, UAE Emirates seems to have plenty to fall back on for the future.

This is how we do… #UAETeamEmirates #WeAreUAE #VueltaAsturias2024 pic.twitter.com/BNZQmkAPIq — Rafał Majka (@majkaformal) April 28, 2024

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UAE Team Emirates: Giro-Tour double 'complicated, but not impossible' for Tadej Pogacar

Team manager Matxin calls Slovenian 'the special one' as his 2024 programme is confirmed

"We see it as complicated, but not impossible," was UAE Team Emirates manager Joxean Fernández Matxin’s view on Monday of the feasibility of Tadej Pogačar capturing not one but two Grand Tours in 2024. 

Following Pogačar's surprise announcement on Sunday that he will try to become the first rider since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year, 24 hours later there was no way that any other subject could dominate the UAE Team Emirates media day in Spain.

When it comes to following Pantani's wheel tracks 26 years later, as Matxin told reporters, reasons ranged from looking for a new goal for Pogačar to his having reached an age – 25 – when he had developed enough physical resilience to tackle two Grand Tours.

But, according to Matxin, the main reason is that Tadej Pogačar being Tadej Pogačar, "the best rider in the world" as he put it, has what it takes as a racer to double his Grand Tour tally in a single season.

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"It's a new challenge, a new stimulus, and it's good to change goals sometimes," Matxin told reporters. 

"We're still keeping the idea of trying to win the Tour de France, but it's the first time he'll be doing two Grand Tours in a single season and at 25 years old, I think Tadej is ready for that challenge."

Apart from a much later start than last year when he kicked off with the Clásica Jaén in early February, Pogačar's focus on the two Grand Tours as well as the Paris Olympics and then the Zürich World Championships – means there's no defence of his Tour of Flanders title. He'll be skipping all of spring's cobbled and Ardennes Classics, bar Liège-Bastogne-Liège, too.

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"Barring stages that are completely flat, every single race Tadej takes part in, Tadej creates expectations," Matxin said. "So we're focussing on the Giro and Tour, and he won't be doing the cobbled Classics."

So is it possible for Pogačar to win both Grand Tours back to back, he was asked. "We're crossing our fingers," he answered. "For me, Tadej Pogačar is the best rider in the world,  the one rider who is always in perfect condition every race he does.

"Last year he changed Tirreno-Adriatico for Paris-Nice , this year he's doing the Giro. It's the moment for him to do two Grand Tours in the same year. We think doing the cobbled Classics, then the Giro and the Tour and, hopefully, the Olympics is a lot, particularly when he'll then focus on Canada and Worlds."

Matxin also said that Pogačar, the first rider to go for the double since Chris Froome in 2018, would not do any racing whatsoever between the Giro and Tour.

As for why the idea of doing the Giro and Tour this year worked better in 2024 than in another season, Matxin pointed out that there is an unusually long period between the end of one Grand Tour and the start of the next 33 days.

That's actually the same as in 2023, but more than the 31 in 2022 and most other years. The relative drop in mountain climbing in the Giro d'Italia route in 2024 – around 10,000 metres fewer than in 2023 and far less backloaded than usual – also makes going it more propitious to try both races next May and July.

Matxin also outlined which UAE Team Emirates riders would, in principle, be racing the first two Grand Tours of the season, with Rafał Majka and Jay Vine taking on the Giro while a stacked squad – including Adam Yates, João Almeida, Juan Ayuso , and Pavel Sivakov – head to the Tour. He also mentioned that Yates and Vine would likely take part in the Vuelta a España.

But, obviously, the key rider in all of this is Pogačar, whose personal qualities as a racer made him the right man for the double Grand Tour job – an attempt to repeat the feat achieved by Coppi, Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, and Indurain as well as Pantani.

"It's complicated to win two GTs but not impossible," Matxin said. "And one of the riders for whom this is less complicated than for most is Tadej. I believe that with his character and his personality, he can do it.  He is the special one. He is the best rider I've come across in my career."

As for whether the biggest goal was to win the Giro or the Tour in 2024 for Pogačar, Matxin made it very clear which one they wanted in UAE's and the Slovenian's palmarès by this time next year, answering simply: "Both."

UAE Team Emirates  for the 2024 Giro d’Italia:  Rafał Majka,  Mikkel Bjerg, Felix Großschartner, Juan Sebastian Molano, Rui Oliveira, Jay Vine, Domen Novak, Tadej Pogačar

UAE Team Emirates for the 2024 Tour de France:   João Almeida, Adam Yates, Juan Ayuso, Pavel Sivakov, Marc Soler, Nils Politt, Tim Wellens, Tadej Pogačar 

Tadej Pogacar's 2023 race program

March 2: Strade Bianche

March 16: Milan-San Remo

March 18-24: Volta a Catalunya

April 21: Liège-Bastogne-Liège

May 4-26: Giro d’Italia

June 29-July 21: Tour de France

August 3: Olympic Games road race (TBC)

September 13: GP Montreál

September 15: GP Quebéc

September 29: UCI Road World Championships road race

October 12: Il Lombardia (TBC)

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Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews , he has also written for The Independent ,  The Guardian ,  ProCycling , The Express and Reuters .

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Team UAE prodigy Ayuso takes Tour de Romandie lead

Oron-la-Ville (Switzerland) (AFP) – American rider Brandon McNulty won the Tour de Romandie third stage individual time-trial on Friday as his UAE Emirates teammate Juan Ayuso took the overall lead.

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Ahead of Saturday's decisive Queen stage in the high mountains McNulty was fortunate to cover the 15.5km course before the rain arrived.

"Yeah it's my first win here so I'm very happy, I had a good day and was lucky to go before the bad weather," said the American.

Belgian rookie Thibau Nys the overnight leader finished way down the field after his exertions Thursday in an all day escape took their toll.

The yellow jersey was taken by the 21-year-old Spaniard Ayuso who appears perfectly suited to go on and win the Tour in the mountains as the UAE prodigy continues to emerge from the shadow of the team's top rider Tadej Pogacar.

Ilan Van Wilder is second at seven seconds and Alexandr Vlasov third at 10sec, with Carlos Rodriguez and Lenny Martinez rounding out the top five.

Ayuso said at the start he was hoping to "take time back before Saturday" and he achieved that, taking all the time back and then some.

"I suffered, but I took some risks and I'm in a good position to defend the jersey now," he said after the stage.

Another up-and-coming all-rounder Frenchman Martinez was 16th on the day but was delighted with his overall fifth at 23sec, and his prospects given his 52kg weight and the mountain stage ahead.

"That was a good day's work, yes we lost time to McNulty but he raced in the dry. I put in a good shift and I'm looking forwards to tomorrow," said the 20-year-old FDJ man.

Saturday's run to Leysin features five climbs and two of them are category ascents including the final 14 kilometres long ascent to the finish line averaging six percent.

The top three across the line also gain time bonuses Saturday.

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