{"id":206935,"date":"2025-06-23T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206935\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:47:09","slug":"look-for-my-weak-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206935\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLook for my weak spots\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With less than two weeks until the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a>, Tadej<br \/>\nPogacar is finding time for fun, and a bit of light teasing. The Slovenian has<br \/>\nlaunched the \u201cPogi Challenge,\u201d an event that will take place later this year,<br \/>\nafter the serious racing has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In a video promoting the event, Pogacar offers some<br \/>\nsatirical advice on how to beat him. \u201cMy first tip is train consistently<br \/>\nthroughout the year, no excuses,\u201d he says with a grin, \u201cthat way there won\u2019t be<br \/>\nany excuses like Tadej is faster!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The world champion doesn\u2019t stop there. With a wink, he adds:<br \/>\n\u201cLook for my weak spots,\u201d pointing viewers towards his race footage, though<br \/>\nfinding any might prove difficult given his 2025 form.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge itself is set for October 10th, high in the<br \/>\nSlovenian Alps. At a fork in the trail to Krvavec, participants will begin a<br \/>\nclimb, before Pogacar sets off in pursuit shortly after them. Those who manage<br \/>\nto reach the summit ahead of him will earn a personal congratulations, and<br \/>\nbragging rights, from the man himself. What are the chances no one earns that<br \/>\npersonal congratulations we wonder?<\/p>\n<p>Given Pogacar\u2019s run of victories this season, including<br \/>\nLi\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, the Tour of Flanders, and the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, few<br \/>\nin the peloton may fancy their chances even with the extra head start. Let\u2019s<br \/>\nhope Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel have been taking notes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With less than two weeks until the Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar is finding time for fun, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-206935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114731106049482322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}