“What is certain is that he will not do all three”: at least two Grand Tours, many classics, Pogacar has unveiled his 2025 program

La saison sera chargée pour Pogacar. EFE – Manuel Bruque

Tadej Pogacar will race many classics, the Tour de France and a second Grand Tour, the Giro or the Vuelta, in 2025, the Spanish sports director of his UAE team, Joxean Fernandez Matxin, said on Tuesday, December 10.

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The 26-year-old Slovenian, who flew through 2024, will start his season on February 17 at the UAE Tour. “He will then do the Strade Bianche, Milan-Sanremo, the Grand Prix E3, Ghent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Flanders before the Ardennes classics”, Matxin announced during a press conference in Benidorm, in the south-east of Spain, where UAE is in training.

In addition to the Tour de France (July 5-27), where he will aim for a fourth victory, “Pogi” will participate in a second Grand Tour in 2025 but is still waiting to know the routes of the Giro, whose presentation has been postponed to January, and the Vuelta to choose.

If he gives up the Giro (May 9-June 1), which he won this year, and prefers the Vuelta (August 23-September 14), the Slovenian will participate for the second time after 2020 in the Critérium du Dauphiné (June 8-15) to prepare for the Tour de France.

Still no Paris-Roubaix

“What is certain is that he will not do the three major Tours next year”, Matxin stressed. Paris-Roubaix, which he has never competed in, will once again not be on the Slovenian's programme in 2025.

Pogacar must also defend his title at the World Championships in September in Rwanda on a very demanding course in Kigali. He should then end his season on October 11 at the Tour of Lombardy, the last Monument of the year, where he will aim for a fifth consecutive victory.

In 2024, the 26-year-old Slovenian had one of the greatest seasons in the history of his sport with 25 victories including a third Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, the World Championships and two Monuments, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy.