L'équipe UAE Team Emirates de Tadej Pogacar face à la presse et aux médias ce lundi 18 décembre alors qu'elle est en plein stage de préparation pour 2024. L'occasion de connaitre le programme de la saison qui arrive pour "Pogi" et ses compagnons de route. Après l'annonce de sa première participation au Tour d'Italie en mai prochain, les spéculations allaient bon train autour du futur programme de Tadej Pogacar pour 2024. Tout le monde attendait donc avec impatience la journée média d'UAE Team Emirates, organisée ce lundi alors que l'ensemble de l'équipe est actuellement réuni à Alicante jusqu'au 21 décembre pour son premier stage préparatoire. Evidemment présent lors de la conférence de presse où se sont succédés coureurs et membres du staff, la star slovène a publiquement dévoilé son calendrier officiel, bien différent de ses habitudes. La saison de Pogacar sera axée autour du Tour d'Italie et du Tour de France, pour tenter un doublé inédit depuis Marco Pantani en 1998. Deux Grands Tours dans la même saison, une première dans la carrière du natif de Komenda, mais un enchaînement qui l'oblige à faire des sacrifices sur le reste de son programme.
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00:00 [Music]
00:17 World Championships.
00:18 [Laughter]
00:19 Olympics.
00:20 Could be, yeah.
00:21 Yeah, Olympics is also a good goal,
00:24 but it's not something really set in stone, I would say.
00:29 It's not a perfect record for me,
00:31 but you never know if it's going to be a really hard day.
00:36 I think everybody wants to do the double,
00:38 and it's one of the hardest things to win, to achieve.
00:42 I already won some Grand Tours, to have all three of them,
00:47 that this is something to have in Palmares.
00:54 So, yeah, let's see first how it goes with Giro,
00:58 and then how it goes with the Tour.
01:00 Let's not think about the double,
01:02 but just let's go to enjoy some long racing.
01:10 [Music]
01:30 I always wanted to do Giro.
01:32 It's one of my favorite races because it's close to Slovenia,
01:36 and as a kid we really loved to watch Giro and go through stages.
01:41 I have one of the nicest memories from Giro
01:45 when Luca Mezzi gets on the stage in Festa,
01:49 and I was there.
01:51 It was an unforgettable moment.
01:57 So, yeah, it was always a dream to be,
02:01 and I come to UAE,
02:03 and I did first Grand Tour of Velta,
02:06 and straight to the Tour, and it was such a success,
02:09 so I never really had time for Giro.
02:11 So I think, yeah, I'm now not so young anymore,
02:16 and I think I can do two Grand Tours.
02:19 Probably I could do already before,
02:22 but I think now is a nice time to have a new challenge in my career.
02:29 [Music]
02:46 I hope I don't have long training that day to watch Flanders.
02:51 Yeah, almost all race I want to see for sure on TV.
02:55 I think I will see the race a bit different from now on, on the TV.
03:01 And, yeah, I think that day I will miss the racing,
03:07 but I think it's also, on the other hand,
03:09 it's a good choice not to do it for one year.
03:13 [Music]
03:42 [Music]
03:48 I think I can go now.
03:50 (upbeat music)