Tadej Pogacar fractured his wrist just over two months from the Tour de France. Instagram
Victim of a fall and a broken wrist in Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday, Tadej Pogacar keeps smiling and says he is “lucky”.
Tadej Pogacar positive. The Slovenian, big favorite of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, fell at kilometer 85 of the Ardennes classic on Sunday. He suffers from a broken wrist and is worried just two months before the start of the Tour de France, which he won in 2020 and 2021. The UAE Team Emirates rider showed himself smiling in an Instagram post on Monday .
«Well that’s the m…. I’m lucky to only have a broken wrist considering how terrible the accident was, wrote Pogacar, left wrist in plaster. I wish the best recovery to? whose fall was much more violent than mine. It’s hard to express how happy I am with the support and help I received from all the fans, my family, my friends, UAE and especially the medical staff.»
Pogacar, 24, did not miss “congratulateRemco Evenepoel, victorious over Liège-Bastogne-Liège. “Our duel will waitPogacar teased. He is also concerned about the health of Dane Mikkel Honoré, who fell with him at high speed on Sunday after 85 km of racing and who “had a much harder fall than mine».
An injury that occurs just over two months before the Tour de France
The abandonment of the 24-year-old Slovenian rider, who was aiming for a hat-trick in the Ardennes classics after winning the Amstel Gold Race and the Flèche wallonne, deprived the race of a long-awaited explanation with the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, who is imposed on Sunday in Liège for the second consecutive year.
This injury comes just over two months before the start of the Tour de France that Pogacar, sparkling since the start of the season, hopes to win back after finishing second behind Dane Jonas Vingegaard in 2022.
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