Pogacar inks new five-year deal with UAE Team Emirates

  • Date: 04-Mar-2021
  • Source: Gulf Today
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:UAE
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Pogacar inks new five-year deal with UAE Team Emirates

Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar has committed his future to UAE Team Emirates by signing a new deal to 2026, the cycling outfit announced on Tuesday. The 22-year-old is one of cycling's brightest prospects and the announcement comes days after he claimed the honours at the season-opening UAE Tour. Matar Al Yabhouni, President of UAE Team Emirates said: "Tadej is our present and our future. He is a rider who was able to win the Tour de France despite his young age and still managed to handle the pressure of such great success. "He showed great poise and determination to win the UAE Tour, a race that is growing year after year and is of obvious importance to us. I am sure that we will continue to achieve important successes together going forward." Pogacar joined UAE in 2019 after training in the continental team Ljubljana Gusto Santi, and had already extended his contract last year until 2024. "I feel at home in this team. There is a special atmosphere between the management, riders and staff and it's a good environment to be in," Pogacar said in a statement. "The team shows a lot of trust and confidence in me