{"id":314225,"date":"2025-08-03T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314225\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:56:13","slug":"tadej-pogacars-uae-team-emirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314225\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Cycling Weekly, UAE Team Emirates – XRG<\/a> will line up at the Tour of Britain<\/a>
\nfor the first time this September, as the 2025 edition of the race takes on
\nadded meaning with the career farewell of Geraint Thomas<\/a>. The six-day stage
\nrace begins on September 2 in Suffolk and concludes on September 7 in Cardiff,
\nthe hometown of Thomas, who will bring the curtain down on a storied
\nprofessional career in front of a Welsh crowd. Organisers have shaped the route
\naround the INEOS Grenadiers rider\u2019s retirement, making this year\u2019s event one of
\nthe most anticipated editions in recent memory.<\/p>\n

Although UAE have never raced the Tour of Britain before,
\nthey arrive this year as the dominant team of the 2025 season. With 68 wins
\nalready to their name, the squad is fresh off a spectacular Tour de France,
\nwhere Tadej Pogacar took his fourth overall victory along with four stage wins
\nand the mountains classification.<\/p>\n

They also impressed at the Giro d\u2019Italia, with Isaac Del
\nToro finishing second overall after narrowly missing out on the Maglia Rosa on
\nthe penultimate stage to Simon Yates. \u201cWe\u2019re not done yet,\u201d the team said
\nrecently, and their presence in Britain could signal yet more victories on the
\nhorizon.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

However, Pogacar is not expected to take part. Initially
\nscheduled to race the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, he pulled out earlier this week due to
\nfatigue and will instead return for the GPs de Qu\u00e9bec and Montr\u00e9al in Canada
\nbefore targeting another rainbow jersey (or two) at the World Championships.
\nUAE have yet to confirm their lineup for Britain, and neither have any of the
\nother major squads beyond the announcement of Thomas.<\/p>\n

Eight other WorldTour teams will join UAE at the start line
\nin Suffolk: Team Visma | Lease a Bike, Groupama-FDJ, Bahrain Victorious, INEOS
\nGrenadiers, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, Soudal – Quick-Step, Lidl-Trek, and Team
\nPicnic PostNL. Groupama-FDJ, like UAE, will be making their first appearance at
\nthe Tour of Britain. The French team, however, have had a much less successful year
\nthan UAE, and have now gone 6 years without a Tour de France stage win.<\/p>\n

With the race serving as a potential tune-up for the Worlds,
\nmore big names could be added to the start list. Last year Remco Evenepoel was
\npresent, and Wout van Aert may want more of the success he enjoyed in the UK in
\n2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n

As it stands, Thomas remains the only confirmed rider. But
\nwith the race finishing in Cardiff and the World Championships looming,
\nexpectations for the final start list are high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Cycling Weekly, UAE Team Emirates – XRG will line up at the Tour of Britain for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314225","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\/114964239811582666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314225","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=314225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}