Pogacar admits that he had Covid 10 days ago

All eyes are on Tadej Pogacar just hours before the start of the 2024 Tour de France. And the Slovenian has raised more than one eyebrow when in a pre-race interview he has just confessed that he has recently recovered from COVID-19 just 10 days ago.

Pogacar has overcome COVID-19 in recent weeks

The superiority shown so far by the Slovenian keeps the expectation very high that he can repeat the feat of winning the Giro and the Tour, as Pantani did 26 years ago. And after winning the Giro d'Italia at the end of May, Pogacar has not competed again until now. In between, an exhaustive preparation and a COVID-19 infection that he has just spoken about and to which he wanted to downplay.

"It's not so serious anymore. Especially if your body had been infected before and I had it once or twice" "I wasn't so bad, it was like a cold and it passed very quickly." "I only stopped for a day and then did some days on the roller without going out. When I was no longer sick, I started riding outside."

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In addition to this confession, Pogacar also had time to talk about one of his main rivals, Vingegaard.

"It's good to see him at the start. I think he's ready because otherwise, I don't think he would be here"... "I think the relationship between Jonas and me is something extraordinary. It's crazy that we write this story ourselves as rivals. I appreciate this rivalry because I respect him a lot."

And he ended by acknowledging that his team for the Tour could be one of the strongest in the history of this race.

"I think our team is super strong"..."I would say I have one of the strongest teams that has been in the Tour. We have superstars for the climbing stages, so I feel very honored to have them as teammates." "Also, we have a very strong team for the flat and technical stages. I think we can rely on this team. I am super happy and honored to have them as teammates."

The Tour will start next Saturday in Florence and Colnago has prepared an exclusive and extremely limited C68 Flor de Lys that will be for sale at an equally exclusive price, 23,000 euros.