UPDATE: Doctors confirm six-week recovery for Tadej Pogačar after Liège-Bastogne-Liège surgery

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updatedThe UAE team issued this statement late Monday from Dr. Adrian Rotunno, the team’s medical director:

“Taddig had a comminuted scaphoid fracture that required a small screw to realign the bone fragments. The operation was completed successfully and he will start the recovery period at home

“Due to the nature of the injury, it’s been about six weeks in recovery. Although he will start with immediate rehab, and some training on an in-house trainer in the coming days.”

United Arab Emirates are preparing for Tadej Boujar to be sidelined for “four to six weeks” following the plane crash in Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

Pogačar underwent successful surgery and put his wrist in plaster on Sunday night after he left the Belgian Monument with a broken scaphoid and meniscus.

An injury described as “complicated” may now put Bogar’s high-altitude roadmap to the Tour de France in jeopardy.

“In addition to the two fractures, Tadeg has many abrasions on his hands, which must first be completely healed, after which he can carefully begin training indoors,” said team doctor Dr. Adrian Rotunno. Hit Latest News.

“But May altitude training comes very early. Tadeg is out for four to six weeks.”

Having unleashed the classics of the North and the Ardennes, Bougar was due to begin his focused preparations for the Tour de France in the coming weeks.

The centerpiece of his push into the yellow jersey was high camp in the Sierra Nevada starting in mid-May.

Although Pogačar will likely be riding the indoor trainer in a few days, the pressures of the long days in the mountains less than a month after surgery may have come too early for the initial pre-Tour schedule.

With teams typically spending three weeks on the hike to fully absorb the benefits of life outdoors, Pogačar could either see a reduced schedule in the Sierra Nevada or disrupt his plans to race the Tour of Slovenia, starting June 14.

It is “too early” to understand the impact on preparation for the Tour de France

Bogar was taken to a hospital in Genk, Belgium, after he was caught up in Michelle Honoré’s double pit crash on Sunday.

The 24-year-old was promptly operated on by local specialists and left the facility just before 8pm local time.

While a broken scaphoid bone is seen as a regular hazard to professional cyclists, a meniscus that is slow to heal can be a problem.

Mauro Giannetti, head of the UAE national team, said: wielerflitz Bogar’s roadmap to the Tour de France should become clearer later this week.

“It’s very early. We don’t have enough information about it,” Giannetti said as he waited for Bugar’s surgery Sunday afternoon.

“The important thing now is that with the operation everything will be fine and in the next two or three days maybe we will have more information to manage the preparation for the Tour. We hope everything will be fine.”