In the wake of the 2025 Tour de France, there’s a lot to ask Tadej Pogačar. And for once, he has quite a lot to say.
The scene is Switzerland, in the pre-Alps just outside of Zürich. I’m in a large branded van. The brand is Plume, an internet services company, and its driver is Slovenian. He’s quizzing me on my vocabulary. Sky, nebo. Cloud, oblak. Mountain, gora. Most importantly: cow, kravica. This isn’t a bike race, but we’re trying to catch up to some cyclists, something analogous to a breakaway. When we reach them, there are a half-dozen in the same company jerseys, with one exception. The exception just happens to be Tadej Pogačar.
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When we hit the day’s planned climb, our little caravan stops in a parking lot. And Pogačar says to a slight man with gray hair, (who just so happens to be Plume’s CEO, Fahri Diner) “Sorry, but now I have to work.” And he disappears up the climb so fast, it becomes apparent that the reasonable clip of the day’s pace was but a mere club ride for him.
Now, you might be wondering what Tadej Pogačar is doing with a bunch of amateur cyclists in Wi-Fi company garb in the middle of the Swiss Alps in September.
Well, right now, on the porch of a hotel, he’s eating a big plate of spaghetti in a nondescript hoodie across from his agent, Alex Carrera, who’s on his phone. It’s one of those surreal scenes of ordinary and extraordinary only cycling can bring to fruition.
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