{"id":893267,"date":"2026-09-15T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893267\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:50:10","slug":"collarbone-strong-head-strong-tadej-pogacar-rides-indoors-for-the-first-time-since-vuelta-a-espana-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893267\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Collarbone strong, head strong’ – Tadej Poga\u010dar rides indoors for the first time since Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> posted an encouraging Instagram reel showing he is back on his home trainer 17 days after his devastating crash that took him out of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> on stage 8 while leading the race by almost four minutes.<\/p>\n

The reigning world champion ended his season after suffering a stable fracture in his neck, a broken collarbone and a concussion in the high-speed wreck. He had to wait two days to undergo surgery<\/a> on his clavicle because of the concussion, but underwent a successful procedure on August 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, just over two weeks since his surgery, Poga\u010dar is back on the trainer – which presumably means his concussion symptoms have abated.<\/p>\n

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On the reel, Poga\u010dar posted photos of himself in a sling, eating ice cream with partner Ur\u0161ka \u017digart, who fractured her jaw in a crash in the Faun Tour Femmes<\/a>, their cat and, importantly, riding on his home trainer.<\/p>\n

“Not quite how we planned to spend September. \ud83d\ude05\u2764\ufe0f At least we have good company. A big thank you to our teams, families, friends and all of you for the amazing support. We are very grateful,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

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“First time back, collarbone strong, head strong, heart rate high, super happy. Let’s go!” a visibly pleased Poga\u010dar says in a video clip in the reel.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar won three stages of the Vuelta and had accumulated a lead of 3:50 over eventual winner Enric Mas (Movistar) before his crash brought his race to an end. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Gandia before being transferred to Barcelona.<\/p>\n

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After his surgery, UAE Team Emirates-XRG confirmed that the injuries meant he would not be defending his title at the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal but also announced he had extended his contract through 2032<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While he was recovering at home in Monaco, \u017digart joined him in ending the season on Saturday after refracturing her jaw, originally broken in a horrific crash on stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar posted an encouraging Instagram reel showing he is back on his home trainer 17 days after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-893267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}