Tadej Pogacar will not race in the Vuelta a Espana next month following his latest Tour de France triumph, his team said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Fresh from his emphatic fourth victory at the Tour de France, (Pogacar) will take a well-earned break,” UAE Team Emirates said as they named their eight-man squad for the Vuelta.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old Pogacar crushed his rivals to collect another Tour title on Sunday, adding to those won in 2020, 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n
“After such a demanding Tour, we decided it was best to take a break,” Pogacar said in a team statement.<\/p>\n
“The Vuelta is of course a race I would dearly love to return to. I have fantastic memories there from 2019, but now the body is telling me to rest.”<\/p>\n
Pogacar plans to return to competition in the Canadian one-day races in Quebec and Montreal in mid-September, a week before the world championships begin in Rwanda.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited to go back to Canada; the races are tough but beautiful, and they fit my style well,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be aiming to be back racing well again for that part of the season and for the World Championships especially.”<\/p>\n
The Vuelta is the only Grand Tour that Pogacar has not won. He finished third in his only participation in 2019.<\/p>\n
Pogacar won the Giro d’Italia last year on his debut.<\/p>\n
This year’s Vuelta begins in Turin, Italy, on August 23 and ends in Madrid on September 14.<\/p>\n
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