Tadej Pogačar set to skip Vuelta a España to focus on end of season goals

UAE Team Emirates confirm Slovenian will miss Spanish grand-tour to concentrate on other targets

Tadej Pogacar
(Image credit: Getty Images)

UAE Team Emirates have confirmed this morning that Tadej Pogačar will miss the upcoming Vuelta a España. 

The 23-year-old Slovenian finished second to Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) at the recent Tour de France

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.