It's an ominous warning to his rivals, and a major departure from the usual downplay of form by bike race favourites – Tadej Pogačar has said he has "never felt so good" on the bike ahead of the Tour de France.
If we thought we were going to have to play a cagey game in order to find out whether the UAE Team Emirates rider has been left tired by his emphatic Giro d'Italia victory in May, we were wrong, it seems. Speaking on his team website, the affable Slovenian has answered the question for us.
