Rogic and Bernal both poised to return from injury

Three-times winner Primoz Roglic will race the final Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a Espana, despite suffering serious injuries in last month's Tour de France, his team Jumbo-Visma confirmed.

Roglic suffered a dislocated shoulder and a back injury when he crashed in the fifth stage of the Tour de France and abandoned the race before the 15th stage to focus on his recovery.

"We are delighted that Primoz can start in the Vuelta after his serious injury in the Tour de France," Jumbo-Visma's sports director Merijn Zeeman said.

"Logically, he didn't have the best preparation, but we greatly respect him for how he managed to get ready. We have a good and balanced team at the start that can optimally support Primoz in all areas."

Roglic will launch a bid to become the first rider to win the Vuelta a Espana four times in a row when it begins in Utrecht on 19 August.

Meanwhile Former Tour de France winner Egan Bernal will make his return to racing at the Tour of Denmark on Tuesday, eight months after the career-threatening crash he suffered while training in Colombia.

Bernal, 25, was left with 20 different fractures, including in his spine, femur and kneecap, after hitting a stationary bus while riding at 65 kilometres per hour (40mph) on his time trial bike in January.

He was considered lucky to have survived and doctors initially warned there was a high likelihood Bernal could be paralysed as a result of his injuries, but he has made rapid progress since beginning his rehabilitation.

Now Bernal, who won the Tour in 2019 and the Giro d'Italia in 2021, is ready to return at the five-day Tour of Denmark, which begins in Allerod on Tuesday.

"After what happened to me in January this has been the moment I've been waiting for - to race