The King of Spain's traumatologist believes that Tadej Pogacar will be "ready to compete in 2 or 3 weeks"

Ángel Villamor, traumatologist and medical director of an advanced medicine clinic in Madrid. Has treated the Royal Household in the past and has experience with elite athletes who have suffered injuries similar to those in the wrist of Tadej Pogacar following his crash in Liege, assures that the Slovenian should be ready to compete again "in 2 or 3 weeks".

"If there are no complications, the Slovenian cyclist would be ready to compete in a period of two or three weeks, with which his presence in the Tour would be assured," says Villamor, "In fact, this is the period in which we usually recover motorcycle riders with a scaphoid fracture, taking into account that the acceleration and braking movements imply much greater stress on the wrists than that applied by a cyclist on the bicycle handlebars."

Villamor explains in El Mundo that the scaphoid fracture a few years ago did not recover until 3 months using plaster or splints, but that with the new technique, that period of time decreases exponentially.

"In order to achieve a better and faster recovery, patients who come to us with a broken scaphoid go immediately to the operating room," he explains. "In this surgery, which we carry out using percutaneous techniques with radiological control that allow us to operate through an incision of just one centimetre, we approximate the bone fragments with special screws that compress them as much as possible to restore blood circulation and avoid possible necrosis."