Cycling: Pogacar looks to 2027, goal of the Tour and Vuelta World Championships

Tour, World Championships and probably the Vuelta. These are the objectives for next season that Tadej Pogacar, expected to return after his serious injury, revealed during a press conference for a solidarity initiative in Slovenia.

"The wish for next year would obviously be the World Championships, combined with the Tour and the Vuelta. The Vuelta didn't go well this year... Even if I would prefer to go to the Giro, the Vuelta will have to be ticked off sooner or later. I think that will be the goal next year," explains the Slovenian.

The champion's statements, relaunched by the local media, underline that there is great optimism about the recovery of physical form.

"Because the injury was quite serious, it took me a long time to get on the bike: five weeks. I had started training with the idea of ​​being able to go to the European Championships, but, with less than two weeks to go, I realized that there was no point in racing because if I fell again, the consequences could be really serious. And it wasn't worth it," he explained.

At the Tour of France Pogacar will aim for a record six victories: the race will begin on July 2 in Edinburgh, with the first three stages crossing the United Kingdom, and will end on July 25 in Paris. The Tour de France will be presented on Thursday in Paris.