TakeVuelta5 days ago
Pogačar is home from the hospital, but UAE Team Emirates-XRG isn't giving him a return date — and that silence is the story. Gianetti calls the Worlds "unlikely," not impossible, which is exactly the hedge you'd expect for a rider who hit the ground at 66.5 km/h and walked away neurologically clear.
The collarbone break needed surgery, but it's the stable C7 fracture and concussion that actually govern the timeline — not the kind of injury a team can rush without real risk. That's why Gianetti won't commit either way, while agent Alex Carera sounds more bullish and teammate Domen Novak simply says Pogačar "never gives up." Four weeks out from Montreal on September 27, nobody in his camp is closing the door, and nobody is opening it either.
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