'I started to have doubts about continuing' – Tadej Pogačar reveals that a knee injury almost ruined his Tour de France

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Tadej Pogacar (27) made a remarkable confession to the Slovenian news site Siol.net on Sunday. His resigned attitude during the third week of the Tour was due to a knee injury that flared up. His body went into shock and he retained fluid. Pogacar feared after the Ventoux stage that he would have to forget about the overall victory, but despite the problems, he held on and won by 4 minutes and 24 seconds over Jonas Vingegaard.

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On Saturday, cheered by many fans crowded along the route, he won his fifth consecutive Lombardy, writing another important page in the history of cycling. Tadej Pogacar then returned to Slovenia to take part in the “Pogi Challenge” where he......

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Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France with a four-step lead over Jonas Vingegaard. The Slovenian rider was once again above the prize this year on the Grand Boucle. And yet it wasn't like this that he felt it. After putting an end to his season by winning a fifth Tour of Lombardy, the 27-year-old rider was back in his country on Sunday, and he entrusted to the local media siol.net that he had almost abandoned during the Tour! "The day after the s…

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On the sidelines of the "Pogi Challenge", a cyclosportive that he himself organised on Sunday, Tadej Pogacar revealed to the Slovenian public radio that he suffered knee problems on the Tour de France, to the point of considering abandonment.