Race Leader Tadej Pogacar Pulls Out of Spanish Vuelta After Crashing During Stage 8
UAE Team Emirates said the race leader could not continue after the crash, and Enric Mas took the red jersey with a 1:11 lead.
- On Saturday, race leader Tadej Pogacar abandoned the Vuelta a España after crashing during stage eight, sustaining shoulder and facial injuries that forced his withdrawal from the competition.
- Pogacar entered the stage with a commanding 3-minute and 50-second overall lead over Spaniard Enric Mas, having won stages one, four, and six during the race's opening week.
- Swerving suddenly in the peloton with 33km remaining, the 27-year-old flew over his handlebars before being helped into an ambulance, as UAE Team Emirates-XRG confirmed his withdrawal.
- Spaniard Enric Mas inherited the red jersey following the crash, though he declined to wear it on the podium as a mark of respect, while Frenchman Bryan Coquard won the stage.
- Marking the first time in 10 attempts that Pogacar has abandoned a Grand Tour, the historic exit ends his pursuit to become the ninth rider to win all three European Grand Tours.
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Pogacar’s Vuelta dream ends with crash and broken collarbone - Bicycling Australia
Tadej Pogacar’s bid to complete a career Grand Tour clean sweep has ended in dramatic fashion, with the Slovenian abandoning the Vuelta a España after a heavy crash on stage eight. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider came down with around 33km remaining, initially appearing to consider getting back on his bike before sitting down and […] The post Pogacar’s Vuelta dream ends with crash and broken collarbone appeared first on Bicycling Australia.
XERACO (SPAGNA)(ITALPRESS) "It is reopened. Not only in the Vuelta, but in a totally upset season finale. The eighth stage of the red race, the Pucol-Xeraco of 171 kilometers, was won at the sprint by Bryan Coquard, but to make noise was the fall of Tadej Pogacar, forced to retire. It seemed a banal situation, a moment of tranquility waiting for the stage queen of tomorrow, but the Slovenian of the Uae Team Emirates-XRG slipped when he was in th…
The Slovenian went to the ground 32 kilometers from Xeraco’s goal and had to withdraw with his arm in sling, strong wounds on his shoulder and face. Enric Mas becomes a new leader, but decides not to dress the red leotard in homage to his rival
Alvaro Ortiz, the Spanish doctor at the Tour de Spain, told broadcaster RTVE that Slovenian star Tadej Pogačar broke and dislocated his collarbone in a fall on stage eight, and was also showing signs of concussion. The team has not yet confirmed the severity of the world's number one cyclist's injuries.
The Slovene suffered a heavy fall during the eighth stage of the Vuelta, this Saturday. Evacuated in blood, by ambulance, he is forced to abandon a race that he had left to win for the first time in his career, after having already hung on to his list of the Tour de France and the Tour d'ItalieImperial until then, the Slovene Tadej Pogacar, ultra-favourite of the Tour d'Espagne and largely at the top of the overall classification, was forced to …
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