{"id":22165,"date":"2023-04-25T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cycling-pogacar-lucky-to-only\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T02:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:49:41","slug":"cycling-pogacar-lucky-to-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/cycling-pogacar-lucky-to-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling-Pogacar ‘lucky’ to only fracture wrist in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar said he was lucky to suffer only a fractured wrist when he crashed out of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege race in Belgium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Slovenian Pogacar, who won the event in 2021, underwent surgery in Genk to treat a scaphoid fracture after being involved in a crash with EF Education\u2013EasyPost’s Mikkel Honore. <\/p>\n

UAE Team Emirates’ medical director Adrian Rotunno said his recovery would take approximately six weeks but Pogacar said the incident could have been much worse. <\/p>\n

“I am lucky it (is) just a broken wrist, considering the crazy crash that happened,” Pogacar said on Instagram on Monday. “I really wish the best recovery to @mikkelhonore who went down way harder than me.”<\/p>\n

Pogacar’s injury setback could affect his preparations for this year’s Tour de France, which begins on July 1.<\/p>\n

Honore also felt lucky to escape without major injury.<\/p>\n

“I have a concussion and some road rash, but am just really happy that nothing worse happened, since it was a really high-speed crash,” he posted on social media.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n

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