Tadej Pogacar: "We turned all the negatives into positives"

June 15 ^th 2025 - 17:34

"It's been a really amazing week. Once again today, the team did a great job. We managed to defend the jersey and we can go home happy and prepare for the Tour.

There's a lot of positives from this week and we turned all the negatives into positives, so it's all good. Now we go to an altitude camp at Isola 2000. There's not much to do ahead of the Tour. I rest a bit, maybe some extra work for the time-trial, and then I'm ready.

I had only done the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2020, when the race was shortened due to Covid. It was some of the hardest five days I ever did in my career. I finally returned and I'm super super happy and proud.

Obviously, it was significant gaps in the time-trial but when we looked at the profiles of the final stages… And then, when we rode it, it was actually even harder than on paper! So I knew it was possible to get back even if it was gonna be hard. I’m really happy I pulled it off."