It was already clear that the 25-year-old phenomenal rider won’t participate within the time trial, which is scheduled for the day after the beginning of the Olympic Video games on Saturday, July 27. The one Slovenian place will likely be crammed by Jan Tratnik, who has additionally participated within the Tour.
Nevertheless, Pogačar was to be the chief of the four-man Slovenian crew every week later. Nevertheless, within the mass race, the Slovenians should do with out him and one other of their mainstays, Primož Roglič, who left the Tour injured as a result of penalties of a fall.
One of many biking powerhouses will likely be represented by the quartet of Tratnik, Matej Mohorič, Luka Mezgec and, lately, Domen Novak, who changed Pogačar within the choice. After his Sunday triumph on the Tour, he not directly hinted at a attainable absence from the Olympics. When the reporter requested him about his different objectives, he solely talked about the world championship on the finish of August. “Van der Poel appears good on this planet champion jersey, so possibly I will take it from him,” he smiled.
Neither Pogačar nor his fiancee Urška Žigartová will seem in Paris from the star companion duo. Although she dominated the nationwide championship within the time trial and mass race in June and is the best-placed Slovenian within the UCI rankings, she scandalously didn’t enter the two-person nomination.
