I am pretty sure her mums illness might indeed have sped things up a bit! I saw he once sent Urska flowers too to cheer her up…
Wonder when they will actually marry and if that will change his racing schedule next year?
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I'm not sure but what I've gathered is her mom has a blood cancer that requires bone marrow transfusion as a last resort. They don't have the machine in Slovenia so she was being treated out of the country and it's super expensive, like 300-600K euros. Sure tadej has been helping out. It was in an interview she gave in july because her mom and her always cheer with a big Slovenian group when they can and she was bummed her mom couldn't be there. She didn't mention. What the illness was there but saw it somewhere else and tadej was fundraising for it a year ago.
Anyway I think maybe they already got married at least a small get together from him being there and the photos/all white matching. Certainly would be a great booster for her mom and make sense why he'd be rushing to urskas town between the races.
If they get married in a bigger ceremony I would bet it would be in the winter since they are both professional cyclists with busy schedules. But whatever it is I'm sure it would be low key since they are both covid savy (testing positive could kill a race or tour pretty fast). Also they don't seem like huge party people either. I really hope the mom isn't the reason, but I don't think either him or urska would have chosen this specific time to be jumping into it especially in slovenia if it didn't have something to do with it.
After losing my own mother to cancer at her exact age as my career was just taking off, im so glad she will have someone like tadej there for her.
All of this is a little off but in a way it put a lot of my questions on why tadej didn't seem so hardcore lately. There are more important things in life.. mostly life.
Alright so my strava stalking shows he has now done the TT route... so that makes me feel a little better. Urskas still at home so still hoping mom is ok and she has a good race coming up too.
Further update waiting on TT to start... I. Slovenia you get married twice because once has to be at gov office with paperwork in front of official before actual wedding. And apparently party was for andrej hauptmans wife's 40th birthday luau themed, which was also their engagement party. Luka was there. Okay watching TT now so I will stop quasi stalking and can focus back on the axtual racing.