Vuelta a España Vuelta a España 2024 rumors

[CyclistAbi]

Aaaah... so Gianetti is admitting that Pogacar is a wax-figure!

Well, there was nobody being able to control Wout in that season, so realistically if team boss says no and Pogi says yes, interesting conundrum we have here. A lot of wax likely involed indeed.

Tadej Triple (r). Ultimate in your face to Visma 2023.

Could backfire, though? As where is Visma in 2024 so far?

But Pog already hinted that it is 99% that he won't be in Vuelta this year. I think he still has other goals this season and this is good decision.

99%.

His boss constantly in need to remind everybody, that Pogi and Ayuso won't do Vuelta 2024. I mean this is far from settled. Would they really play hard ball with Pogi, protecting him? I don't see it. Anyway, we'll know in around months time, the outcome.

 

[Red Rick]

Kuss could do it. But Pog cant. That makes sense.

 

[CyclistAbi]

The thing is Pogi is still riding 2 minutes ahead of everybody, per stage. He in my opinion won't stop willingly.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Pog would most likely win, but its not like Seppy has been lighting up the season so far. I think its kinda important not to tire yourself, both psychically and mentally, like that and instead focus 100% on what he had in mind: Olympics, Worlds especially and Lombardia. Seems like a better plan to me honestly

 

[CyclistAbi]

Well, Pogi can certainly try and as far as i understand he will, unless team prevents him. Plus obviously other races mentioned.

At this point Rogla likely the only realistic option, to prevent that on the road, the rest of the field already beaten, by minutes and on a daily basis.

Kuss a good example of melting down, after attempting something similar last year. Being a factor in all 3 GTs, this year it's like he doesn't even ride any more. Visma, due to being greedy, not a lot of sympathy involved this year, considering all the issues they are having.

Ultimately we'll see at the Vuelta.

 

[Valv.Piti]

I don't know why I respond, but:

No, the team will not "prevent" him. If Pogacar wants to race in La Vuelta, he will. But he doesn't want to and thats not just understandable, but IMO also the right thing to do.

 

[CyclistAbi]

What about if you would actually read the article first? As no, that is not what the article says:

"I don’t want to risk melting him. And if he wins they'd call us greedy" - Mauro Gianetti reassures there are no plans of sending Tadej Pogacar to Vuelta

Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana. T

cyclinguptodate.com

The article says the team will prevent him from participating at Vuelta, just like it was said for Ayuso a day or two back, for the team to prevent him participating, on where the organiser still hopes they change their mind in regards to Ayuso. So now lets see on how much merit that really has in about a month time.

 

[Red Rick]

UAE does seem extremely rigid on GT allocations. May have it hardwired into rider contracts

 

[Red Rick]

I don't know why I respond, but:

No, the team will not "prevent" him. If Pogacar wants to race in La Vuelta, he will. But he doesn't want to and thats not just understandable, but IMO also the right thing to do.

They stopped him from going to the Giro before. Its not like Pog signs his own cheques.

To me I dont see why he cant try Olympics and Vuelta both and if you cant win Vuelta you just go home instantly

 

[CyclistAbi]

And here is Gianetti talking to local Slovenian media:

Å ef PogaÄarjeve ekipe UAE: Tadeju ne bom dovolil nastopiti na Vuelti | 24ur.com

Tadej PogaÄar se vse bolj spogleduje z zmago na Dirki po Franciji, s Äimer bi mu v istem letu uspelo slaviti na Giru in Touru. To je doslej uspelo le Å¡esterici, zgolj dva pa sta temu dodala Å¡e zmago na Vuelti. PogaÄar, kot kaže, po trojÄku letos ne bo mogel poseÄi, saj je direktor ekipe UAE...

www.24ur.com

"Nastop na Vuelti absolutno ne pride v poštev. Tadeju ne bom dovolil, da nastopi na Vuelti. Je izjemna oseba, veliki šampion, a je iz krvi in mesa, naša odgovornost pa je, da skrbimo zanj ter njegovo prihodnost. Na nas in na kolesarstvu, ki ima na njegov račun v svojih vrstah vrhunskega in popularnega kolesarja, je, da pazimo nanj," je odločno pojasnil Gianetti.

Roughly translates to in no way Pogi is doing Vuelta i won't allow it, absolutely out of the questions. Pogi is an amazing person and grand champion, still he is only human and it's their responsibility to take care of him and his future.

A couple of days back Ayuso was said not to participate, team not allowing it, due to different reasons.

Now personally i feel that Ayuso wants to go and i feel that Pogi might not be willing to stop. So said all that lets see if any of Pogi or Ayuso will do Vuelta 2024. For now it seems that the team is against it and won't allow it.

 

[CyclistAbi]

The dilemma here, for Pogi, is look, i have beaten everybody this year, at GTs, bar Rogla. Should i just sit and watch, on how Rogla wins Vuelta? Ayuso agreeing.

 

[Scarponi]

Only way Pog could do it is if he goes thermonuclear on stage 4 and literally follow wheels for the other 2.5 weeks.
Don’t want to ruin next season

 

[OlavEH]

I do like the premliminary start list.

Yates & Almeida & Ayuso vs
Kuss & Cian & Kelderman vs
Roglic

And Mas and Landa in addition

And it will certainly be interesting to see who will captain UAE.

 

[houtdffan]

wonder if Remco also goes simply because he lost so many racing days due to his crash

No Pog = excellent chance of victory

 

[AmRacer]

wonder if Remco also goes simply because he lost so many racing days due to his crash

No Pog = excellent chance of victory

No Pog, No Jonas. Remco should try for another GC win.