“He won the Tour de l’Avenir that year in absolutely dominant fashion — and he did it without the backing of a team,” recalls Gianetti. “Shortly afterwards, I met him for the first time at our headquarters in Milan. That’s where we signed his first contract.”
“He reminded me of the first time I met Roger Federer, back at the Sydney Olympics,” he says. “We were both part of the Swiss Olympic team. Federer was just 18 then and ranked 34th in the world — but when you spoke to him, you could feel it: there was something extraordinary there. I had the exact same feeling with Tadej.”
UAE Team Emirates - XRG boss Mauro Gianetti has opened up about the early days of Tadej Pogacar’s career in a candid interview with Dutch outlet RIDE Magazine. Speaking with the insight of someone who...
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