Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar said Monday he was lucky to escape from his weekend crash at Liege--Bastogne--Liege with only a broken left wrist and he will start his recovery hoping to be ready for cycling's biggest race this year.
A day after his team said he underwent "successful" surgery in Belgium, Pogacar tried to focus on the bright side in a message posted on his social networks, considering the "crazy crash that happened."The accident Sunday during cycling's oldest classic was not captured on TV, but Pogacar's sports director with the UAE Team Emirates said after the race it happened at very high speed.
"It was in a slight descent, and very fast and very high speed, and he could not avoid the crash," Gianetti said at the finish.Pogacar, who lives in Monaco, was expected to travel home on Monday, according to his team. UAE Team Emirates said that surgery to treat a scaphoid fracture in his left wrist went well and that the 24-year-old Slovenian rider would now start "recovery and rehabilitation.
Following his wins at Amstel Gold and Fleche Wallonne, Pogacar aimed to become only the third male rider to seal a hat trick of the Ardennes classics but had to abandon after 85 kilometers . The race was won by world champion Remco Evenepoel, who put on an impressive attacking display to win cycling's oldest classic for the second year in a row with a solo effort.
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