‘I feel I wouldn’t be ready’ – Tadej Pogačar likely to be without João Almeida as super domestique for upcoming Tour de France despite recent recovery

Tadej Pogačar will most likely be without one of his super domestiques for this year’s Tour de France, with João Almeida telling Portuguese media that while he has recovered from the illness which forced him to cancel his Giro d’Italia participation, he “wouldn’t be ready to do the Tour”.

Almeida is racing for the first time since March from this Sunday at the Tour-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where he will reboot his season and support Isaac del Toro, but he isn’t using it as a build-up to the Tour de France.