After the broken wrist he suffered in April at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Tadej Pogacar (September 21, 1998, Komenda, Slovenia), two-time Tour de France champion (2020 and 2021) will reappear today at the national championship of Slovenia in search of victory this Thursday in the time trial, and next Sunday he will return to the charge in the road race. These will be the last two tests he will participate in before the Tour de France.
All this, after confirming the progress of his wrist injury in the training sessions before the Tour de France made with his team, the UAE Team Emiratesin italian alps.
pogacarwho no longer needs a hand brace to run, is training at sestrierein Alps Italians, along with Adam Yates, Rafal Majka, Marc Soler and Felix Grosschartner face the Tour de France, and the Slovenian will appear directly in the French round after participating this Thursday and this Sunday in the domestic competition.
“It’s getting better. We did a test in the Sierra Nevada in Spain, then we analyzed the stages in the third week of the Tour, and now, to avoid going back to the Sierra Nevada, we did it in Italy. Now he will do two races of the National Championship, and then he will go directly to the Tour de France “revealed the sports director of UAE Team Emirates, Joxean Fernandez Matxina few days ago on the Italian website Bici.Pro, detailing all the preparations of Tadej before the Tour.
This Thursday, Tadej Pogacar will be looking for his third Slovenian national time trial title after winning in 2019 and 2020 this Thursday on a mountainous route of 15.7 km, with a final climb towards the city of Poklijuka.
For his part, on Sunday, pogacar will look for his first national title on the road, a race in which his best result was the second place in 2020 after Primoz Roglic. This Sunday road test will have a route of 156 kilometers with a final circuit of 19.5 kilometers with a very steep 20% ramp near the finish line.
Source: La Verdad
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