“Some guys should calm down,” Pogacar responds to the accusations of arrogance of the UAE

The Slovenian yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar, spoke on Wednesday on his team’s overdomination on Wednesday and the start of the controversy concerning the attitude of his teammate Nils Politt, accused of padlocking the race while contemptuating the other runners.

Faced with the accusations of arrogance. Moreover, the reproaches as for too much domination on the Tour de France, the yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar assured this Wednesday that her team did nothing to “be arrogant”, but that she was simply trying to “go to the race easy”.

“Arrogance is one thing. For example, trying to win the Tour de France is another,” said the Slovenian, whose team has already won five stages and seems to be off to win this big loop.

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Politt in the center of a controversy – "some guys should calm down,"

On “some guys should calm down,” Tuesday, several teams and followers, like the manager of Totalenergies, Jean-René Bernaudeau, or the consultant and former cyclist, Thomas Voeckler, moved the behavior of Nils Politt, the German teammate of Pogacar, who worked hably riders trying to relaunch an offensive in the stage going to Mont Ventoux.

This intimidation attempt was finally unsuccessful: a few kilometers further. a breakaway of 34 runners formed before arguing the stage victory in Mount Chauve, where Valentin Paretrere triumphed.

“Many runners can see us as arrogant. as yesterday, when we tried to calm things when we wanted it, because we are the team that must control every kilometer of this race,” said “Pogi”.

Critics have flowered in recent days after the demonstration of Pogacar in the Pyrenees. that of his teammate Tim Wellens in Carcassonne, victorious after a breakaway, reproaching unwelcome management of the Emirati training race.

“We have to see things on our side. we “some guys should calm down,” are not trying to be arrogant, we try to make the race as easy as possible,” adds the triple winner of the Tour. “I think some guys should calm down. in my opinion, and it may seem super arrogant to say that, but hey,” he concluded.