New Year New Life. Phrase contrary to that of “if something works, better not touch it”. And it is that on the table is the option for one of the superstars of world cycling to opt for an alternative start to the calendar at the beginning of the season. We speak, neither more nor less, of a Tadej Pogacar before him the possibility of starting his 2023 campaign in Spain, specifically, in the Jaen Classic, all this after in the last two years he began his racing calendar in the UAE Tour, one of the main sporting and commercial objectives of his team, as it is the home event for the Emirati squad.
Sources from the organization of the Andalusian race consulted by AS, affirm to this newspaper that the debut of the Slovenian in the second edition of the Jaén event is possible, although at the moment they are in the period of negotiations: “We would love for him to come, and at the moment we are in talks. We will do everything in our power so that Tadej is at the start of the Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior”.
It should be noted that pogi He was already last December in the Madrid Criterium, proof that it belongs to the same organizers as the Clásica Jaén, reason why these good relations could favor the resolution of some last fringes that point to the economic. If it is solved, Pogacar will start its calendar in 2023 with its debut in the sterrato Spanish next February 13, a perfect transition so that, facing the beginning of March, it would try to defend his champion crown on the Strade Bianche. In addition, Pogacar would choose Spain for the second time as the destination to start his campaign, since in 2020 already made its first act of presence in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. Jaen crosses his fingers…