Time was that Tadej Pogačar's UAE Team Emirates squad were his Achilles heel at the Tour de France – hardly rubbish, but nowhere near the strength in depth of, say, Visma-Lease a bike or Ineos Grenadiers.
That excuse is not going to fly this July, for the Middle-Eastern team has just presented an eight-man squad for the Tour with such depth of strength that you risk the bends if you click off this page too quickly.
