Urška Žigart’s boyfriend heads to Slovenia in final race before Tour de France

After wrapping up his altitude training for the Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar is now making his way home to Slovenia to race in the national championships. This will mark his return to racing after a crash during the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, resulting in a fractured wrist. After that, Pog had to take some time off, before ultimately resuming training on his rollers. He only recently returned to riding outside and joined his teammates at the squad’s pre-Tour training camp.

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The UAE Team Emirates rider is set to compete in the time trial on Thursday, followed by the road race on Sunday. The TT is just under 16 km, mostly uphill, heading to the village of Pokljuka. The road race is 156 km, on a hilly course in Radovljica.

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His sports manager Joxean Fernández Matxin said his progress is coming along, and his wrist injury is healing up just in time.

“He is going well. His condition is improving,” Matxin said to Bici.pro. “We  recently did a training camp in Sierra Nevada in Spain, then we went over the stages in the third week of the Tour. Next up he will do the two Sloveian national championships races, and then it’s straight to the Tour de France.”

The rivalry between Pog and last year’s winner Jonas Vingegaard is hotly anticipated, with the latter showing fine form recently winning the Critérium du Dauphiné.