2023-04-23 16:53:25
Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, who was aiming for a hat-trick in the Ardennes classics before having to abandon Liège-Bastogne-Liège after a fall, suffers from a scaphoid fracture in his left wrist and will be operated on on Sunday. “Tadej suffers from fractures to the left scaphoid and the semilunar bone (in the left hand). The scaphoid will require an operation. He will be operated on this afternoon by a hand surgeon here in Genk,” team medical director Adrian Rotunno said in a statement.
The duration of his recovery is not specified. This injury comes just over two months before the start of the Tour de France that Pogacar, winner in 2020 and 2021, hopes to regain after finishing second behind Dane Jonas Vingegaard in 2022. The Slovenian fell at high speed on Sunday after 85 km race, before the main climbs on the program, in the company of the Dane Mikkel Honoré (EF Education), who also retired.
Evenepoel does the double
The Pogacar team-mates all stopped to wait for their leader to bring him back into the peloton, but the Slovenian was unable to start again. The abandonment of the 24-year-old Slovenian rider, who has just won the Amstel Gold Race and the Flèche Wallonne, deprived the race of a royal and long-awaited explanation with the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, defending champion and new winner this Sunday alone.
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