Tadej Pogacar has just lost a compatriot in the UAE Team Emirates team. Slovenian Jan Polanc officially ended his career as a professional cyclist on Monday, at only 31 years old. The one who had especially distinguished himself by winning two stages of the Giro in 2015 and 2017 discovered a few weeks ago that he was suffering from “heart problems”, as his team announced on Monday.
Former wearer of the pink jersey in 2019, Jan Polanc indeed passed “routine examinations” in winter which revealed a problem, the nature of which was not specified by UAE. “After further examinations, it was decided that the risks associated with the practice of high-level sport were greater than the benefits,” said the Emirati team.
“It’s obviously not the way I hoped to end my career,” lamented Jan Polanc, who had not yet raced this season and was under contract until the end of the year with UAE. .