Pocagar asks for a truce before facing the end of the season without saying a word

Tadej Pogacar finished the Tour de France completely saturated between the demands of the race and the tremendous media pressure to the point that on his vacation he has decided to change his world champion colors for a tremendously explicit outfit in which you can read a resounding "Please do not disturb".

Pocagar asks for a truce before facing the end of the season

Well-deserved vacation that Tadej Pogacar is enjoying these days after an absolutely stellar year. However, as is well known, the Tour de France was an immense strain, especially mentally, for the Slovenian who, at the end of it, chose to rule out his participation in La Vuelta.

After several weeks out of the spotlight, Tadej Pogacar has returned to social media on the bike but without wearing the rainbow of World Champion, not even the jersey of his team, something totally atypical for a professional cyclist and a clear sign that vacations are vacations, even to show off his sponsors.

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Instead, Tadej Pogacar has been using a jersey that reads "Please do not disturb", accompanied by logos with the prohibition symbol asking not to approach him to greet or ask for photos. A clear sign of the saturation that the Slovenian has reached with the public overexposure he has been subjected to during the Tour de France.

In fact, Tadej Pogacar not only gave up participating in the Vuelta a España but also ignored the traditional criteriums that follow the Tour de France, a tradition for the winners of the French race and which represent significant income for those who manage to conquer the yellow jersey. Instead, Tadej Pogacar has been pedaling through Slovenia, following the Women's Tour of Romandie last week where his girlfriend, Urska Zigart, was close to victory, although she yielded in the last stage and these last days they have been seen pedaling together simply with the aim of enjoying, without watts or intervals.

A disconnection that will last until September 12 when Tadej Pogacar is scheduled to return to competition in the Quebec and Montreal duet that will serve the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider to regain sensations for the World Championship in Rwanda that will take place on September 28 and where he will try to defend the rainbow jersey in a race that promises to be extremely tough due to the combination of the altitude at which Kigali, the capital of Rwanda and the scene of the event, is located, and a circuit with more than 5,000 meters of accumulated elevation gain.