The 24-year-old Slovenian from the UAE-Emirates, who crashed in Liège, was in Forlì by the physiotherapist of Pantani, Alonso and Tamberi: now he’s pedaling on rollers
A special brace, much lighter than the one he had already begun to use, to better recover after the fall of Liège-Bastogne-Liège on 23 April in which he had fractured his left scaphoid and lunate (he had been operated on in Genk , in Belgium). An ‘Italian’ tutor, in the sense that Tadej Pogacar turned to the physiotherapist Fabrizio Borra, who works in Forlì and who is known for having followed and following many champions: in cycling, the reference to Marco Pantani is immediate, as is the link between Borra with the two-time F.1 world champion Fernando Alonso. And just to give another example, Borra also periodically follows the Olympic high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi. Tadej Pogacar was in Forlì at the Physiology Center, and obviously continues to be followed for therapy and the rehabilitation process by Adrian Rotunno, a South African doctor who is head of the health staff of the UAE-Emirates. For now, the 24-year-old Slovenian, number one in the world, is pedaling on rollers and the date on which he will be able to resume training on the road has not been communicated: the team principal Mauro Gianetti had said that it would not be before they had passed anyway ” at least 5 weeks after the accident”. Pogacar’s summer goal remains the Tour de France, which will start on July 1st from Bilbao (Spain).