Tadej Pogacar heads to Slovenia for final race before Tour de France

Tour de France 2021: Tadej Pogačar celebrates overall victory
Tour de France 2021: Tadej Pogačar celebrates overall victory (Image credit: Getty)

Tadej Pogačar has completed his Tour de France altitude training and is heading to the Slovenia for the National Championships, his first race action since crashing out of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and fracturing his scaphoid.

The UAE Team Emirates leader will be taking part in the time trial on Thursday and the road race on Sunday, both of which take place in northwest Slovenia near the Austrian border.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.