IF EVER THERE WAS A YEAR WHEN Tadej Pogacar should attempt the Giro-Tour double, this would be it.
By the time the 25-year-old Slovenian rocks up to Venaria Reale on the outskirts of Turin in the country’s northwest, the start point for this year’s Giro d’Italia, he will have raced just 10 days. Compare that to 16 days’ racing at the same calendar date the previous year, or the 19 days he raced in 2022 or the 23 days in 2021, the last time he won the Tour de France.
So complete is his palmares, it feels like this impetuous kid who just seems to love racing his bike for fun has been around for donkey’s
