Liège-Bastogne-Liège: Victim of a fall, Tadej Pogacar will have to observe a six-week recovery period

Victim of a heavy fall during the classic Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday, Tadej Pogacar will have to observe about six weeks of recovery after having wrist surgery. If this deadline is respected, his return will take place barely four weeks before the start of the Tour de France, which he hopes to regain after finishing second behind the Dane Jonas Vingegaard in 2022. “Pogi”, however, had not scheduled to race within the next six weeks, with a return scheduled for the Tour of Slovenia on June 14.

“Tadej had a comminuted fracture (with small bone fragments editor’s note) of the scaphoid, which requires a small screw to realign the bone fragments“, explained UAE’s medical director, Dr. Adrian Rotunno, “the operation went well and he will begin his recovery period at home“.”Given the nature of the injury, recovery time will be around six weeks.“, specifies the doctor, “but he will immediately attack rehabilitation and train on an indoor bike in the next few days“.

Pogacar victim of fractures of the left scaphoid and semilunar bone

He was 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“. The abandonment of Pogacar, 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 won Sunday in Liège for the second consecutive year.

“Kudos to Remco for the win, our battle will wait until next time“, concluded Tadej Pogacar.