"I think so": Pogacar feels capable of winning the Giro, Tour, and Vuelta in the same season

Tadej Poga?ar continues to make it clear that, beyond the titles he has already accumulated, his relationship with sporting ambition does not involve setting impossible challenges at any cost. The world champion has acknowledged that he does see himself capable of winning the Giro, Tour, and Vuelta in the same season, a feat that no one has achieved individually, but he has also emphasized that it is not a goal he has marked on his roadmap.

Pogacar believes he can win all three Grand Tours in the same year… but he does not see it as a priority

"I think it is possible," explained the leader of UAE Team Emirates XRG in recent statements. However, the Slovenian was quick to temper any immediate expectations: "I don't know if I would do it. For that, I would first have to sit down with the team management, and besides, all my teammates would have to agree."

In 2023, it was a team, Jumbo-Visma, that managed to win all three Grand Tours in the same season, something never seen before. But at the individual level, the bar remains intact. The Slovenian himself already demonstrated in 2024 that the combination of Giro–Tour is viable for him, also adding the rainbow jersey at the end of the year, a sequence that only a few champions, like Eddy Merckx, have achieved in history.

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However, for Poga?ar, the problem is not only physical or sporting but also one of internal management. "I don't think it's fair to monopolize all the Grand Tours," he explained. "There are many riders in the team capable of winning a Grand Tour. A conflict of interest could arise." This is an unusual reflection from a rider with his record, but it reinforces the idea that he is not driven by obsessions.

"I am not hungry for everything nor obsessed with these kinds of challenges. It is not a burning desire for me," he stated.

Pogacar's 2026 calendar is heading in a different direction

In fact, his own sporting decisions for 2026 confirm this discourse. Poga?ar has already revealed a very defined calendar, focused on the Classics and the Tour de France, and not on the accumulation of Grand Tours. The season will start with Strade Bianche and Milan-San Remo, followed by a complete block of Monuments with Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

After spring, his preparation for the Tour will include the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Suisse, discarding other usual races like Paris-Nice or the Dauphiné. The main goal of the summer will be the fight for a fifth Tour de France, while the Vuelta a España does not appear, at least for now, among his immediate plans.

A coherent approach with what he himself conveys. Poga?ar does not race to tick off impossible boxes, but to continue finding motivation in challenges that truly excite him, whether it is lifting the cobblestone of Roubaix or continuing to enlarge his legend in the Tour.