UAE Team Emirates-XRG's Pogacar targets Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and Milan-San Remo in 2026

Cycling superstar Tadej Pogacar of the UAE Team Emirates-XRG will try for a fifth Tour de France title in 2026 but is more excited by the two one-day Monuments that have so far eluded him; Paris-Roubaix and Milan San Remo.

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The 27-year-old Slovenian was speaking on Saturday at a preseason training camp at Benidorm in Spain.

“I’m going to do Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the Tour de Romandie, and the Tour de France. And then we’ll see, that's already quite a lot,” Pogacar said.

“If I could choose between a win at Roubaix or the Tour, I would choose Roubaix because I have already won the Tour four times,” said Pogacar, who complained of feeling drained during the 2025 Tour.

“There is a bigger difference between zero and one than between four and five,” he added.

Tour de France champion in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025, he can join an elite clique of five-time winners alongside Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Jacques Anquetil next July.

“The Tour de France of course is the biggest race, everybody always arrives ready, teams always send their best team and you have to be super ready,” he said.