{"id":130852,"date":"2026-09-26T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/first-day-back-last-day-in-rainbow-pogacar-returns-to-the-road\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:51:08","slug":"first-day-back-last-day-in-rainbow-pogacar-returns-to-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/first-day-back-last-day-in-rainbow-pogacar-returns-to-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"First day back, last day in rainbow: Pogacar returns to the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2239179202-1-1.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tadej Pogacar stepped outdoors on his bike again on Saturday, nearly a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/tadej-pogcar-crashes-out-of-the-2026-vuelta-a-espana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the crash<\/a> that ended his season \u2014 and marked the occasion with a poignant note: \u201cFirst day back, but the last in the rainbow jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-time world champion shared photos and videos from a ride near his home, joined by his partner Ur\u0161ka \u017digart, her teammate Gladys Verhulst, and Eddie Dunbar.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F2526958687821684%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=357&amp;t=0\" width=\"357\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also showed the scar from his collarbone surgery, a visible reminder of the injuries sustained in the Vuelta a Espana: a broken left collarbone, a stable fracture of the seventh cervical vertebra, a concussion, and multiple abrasions. Those injuries forced him to abandon the Vuelta while leading and ruled him out of the rest of the 2026 season, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/live-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Championships in Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/2026-montreal-world-championships-live-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Sunday<\/a>, a new men\u2019s elite road race world champion will be crowned, ending Pogacar\u2019s two-year reign in the iconic rainbow bands he claimed in Zurich (2024) and Kigali (2025).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cycling.today\/first-day-back-last-day-in-rainbow-pogacar-returns-to-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tadej Pogacar stepped outdoors on his bike again on Saturday, nearly a month after the crash that ended his season \u2014 and marked the occasion with a poignant note: \u201cFirst day back, but the last in the rainbow jersey.\u201d The two-time world champion shared photos and videos from a ride near his home, joined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}