Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar has pulled out of the Olympic Video games due to “excessive fatigue”, the Slovenian Olympic Committee has mentioned.
Pogacar accomplished victory on this yr’s Tour by taking Sunday’s remaining stage, which was a time trial, to win the illustrious 3,498km race for a 3rd time.
The Video games begin in Paris on Friday and the 25-year-old was scheduled to participate within the street race on 3 August.
“Sadly Tadej Pogacar has cancelled his participation due to a state of utmost fatigue,” mentioned Slovenia’s Olympic biking coach Uros Murn.
Pogacar added his 2024 Tour win to victory within the Giro d’Italia in Might, as he turned the primary man to win biking’s two greatest races in the identical yr since Italian Marco Pantani in 1998.
