Paris: Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar said yesterday that recovery from a wrist fracture was just a minor setback with a month to go until the start of the Tour de France.
Slovenian Pogacar, 24, suffered the injury in a crash during April 24’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege with the Tour beginning in Bilboa, Spain, on July 1.
“Luckily it’s not a huge setback, it’s nothing to do with the legs or head. I could train almost normally, do good hours,” Pogacar told reporters.
“Hopefully I will be 100%, maybe the wrist will not be at 100% but I think the legs can be because you don’t need a wrist to train legs.
“We will see how the Tour goes and I will enjoy it in any case,” he added.
Pogacar, who won the Tour in 2020 and a year later, will race in the Slovenian national championships later this month after having sat out June 14-18’s Tour of Slovenia.
Tadej Pogacar
