To the winner, the spoils. In fact, to the dominant rider and team in the 2024 Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar and UAE Team Emirates, goes more than one-third of the entire prize pot of €2,282,200 (£1.9m) on offer to all 22 teams competing in this year’s Tour.
For a team whose total budget is in the region of €50m (£42m), and for a rider, Pogacar, earning in the region of six or seven million euros a year, plus endorsements, €806,810 – UAE’s share of the Tour’s total prize fund – amounts to loose change.
