Tadej Pogacar won his third Tour de France title on Sunday.
Tadej Pogacar withdrew from the Olympics after his girlfriend and fellow cyclist Urska Zigart was snubbed by Slovenia Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar admits the Slovenia’s decision to not select his girlfriend Urska Zigart for the Olympics helped influence his own call to withdraw from the Games. Pogacar won his third Tour de France title on Sunday but then pulled out of the competition in Paris at the start of this week citing ‘extreme fatigue’.
Speaking about Zigart’s omission from the Olympics, Pogacar told Dutch broadcaster NOS: ‘It’s not the main reason but for sure it didn’t help. ‘I think she deserves her spot. She’s the double national champion in road race and time trial. ‘ is the only woman cyclist in Slovenia that ever achieved top 10 in week-long World Tour races. ‘She did great in the last two years winning points for Slovenia and, without her, they wouldn’t have two spots in the road race.
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