To Storer, Pogacar could have won more steps

Mathieu Warnier, Media365, published on Thursday 07 August 2025 at 12:45 p.m. Meanwhile,

At the end of a Tour de France which saw Tadej Pogacar win four stages. In addition, Michael Storer said that the Slovenian could have gone more if he had not been criticized.

Tadej Pogacar did not have too heavy. Therefore, Last year, the Slovenian won no less than six stages on the road leading in his third Tour de France. Meanwhile, Twelve months later. Moreover, his fourth yellow jersey was not marked “only” by four stage victories in Rouen, Mûr-de-Bretagne, Hautacam and during the Peyragudes time trial. Furthermore, As much on storer, pogacar could have won the slopes of Mont Ventoux as during the Alpestre diptych. Similarly, the leader of the UAE Team Emirates-XRG team seemed to be disinterested in immediate successes in order to focus on the defense of his yellow jersey, apart from the slopes of the Montmartre hill, on which he hosted the race before admitting defeated Wout Van Aert. An attitude that was able to question when its sports director Matxin Fernandez said in the columns of the. Spanish daily As It was necessary to “also be consistent” in the face of an advance of more than four minutes in the general classification. Questioned as part of the podcast DomesticMichael Storer has a completely different point of view. The runner of the Tudor team claims to have “had information that Tadej had decided not to win the. stage” during a racing day that saw the UAE Team Emirates-XRG Dictate the tempo team.

Storer: storer, pogacar could have won “The UAE Team Emirates-XRG team was at the end”

Which questions the Australian. “I find it a little strange to ask his team to ride all day long. then decide not to win the stage during the last ascent,” added the teammate of Julian Alaphilippe. According to him. this change of approach would be a reaction from the public to the domination of Tadej Pogacar on the start of the Tour de France. “According to the information I obtained. French fans hooked him and the management of the team decided that it was better that he was not winning that day in order to keep French fans on his side,” he added by suspecting the Emirati training of not wanting to “take everything” during the last week of racing. Not hiding a certain frustration in the face of this way of doing things. Michael Storer saw, however, that she weighed in storer, pogacar could have won the teammates of Tadej Pogacar and the Slovenian himself. “You could see that the UAE Team Emirates-XRG team was at the end of the race. Tadej was also tired, he said. It is therefore not a defensive race if you drive all day long. This could explain the decision of the defending world champion to give up participating in the Vuelta in order. to prepare for the defense of his rainbow jersey on Canadian roads.