João Almeida has bad news for Tadej Pogačar ahead of the Tour de France
We had to wait a while, but João Almeida finally returns to racing on Sunday. The Portuguese rider from UAE Team Emirates-XRG struggled with health problems in the spring, which ruled him out of the Giro d’Italia. He returns in the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, but he is also immediately tearing up the original plan.
Exactly what was wrong with Almeida, he still does not know, but what we do know is that the physical issues are now behind him. “I took a rest period before the Giro and I have been training for about three or four weeks now. The training is going well, I feel good. I have finally recovered, but I do not know exactly what I had. The tests showed some abnormal values, but we never really managed to find the root cause of those changes,” he told O Jogo.
How exactly did that go? “Straight after Catalunya I had to rest to recover from the race and then I gradually started training again. I did not feel too bad, but not great either. And then there is always that pressure to keep training, because the Giro was there. I even did altitude training, but my tests showed no improvement,” he explained.
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