On Wednesday Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) will undergo surgery to correct a heart ailment he discovered last week.

The rider from Murcia itself made the announcement via Twitter: "Tomorrow I will go under the knife. It is nothing serious even though it has a weird name: the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome." It is a heart defect that could develop into arrhythmia.

Rojas explained things in more detail in an interview with BiciCiclismo. "It's a disease that was was diagnosed last week via electrocardiogram and ultrasound. I was gound to have an arrhythmia," he said

He will undergo surgery at the Hospital de Navarra in Pamplona. "I have to undergo surgery, but on papre the operation is uncomplicated and fast. For a normal person it has no effect, but by subjecting the body and heart to so much stress, there is an increased risk of tachycardia. I don't want to take risks," he said,

Professional since 2006, he has been with Movistar since 2007 and never feared not to be able to race next year. "In principle, the recovery should be short," he said. “If there are no complications, the doctors have told me that I can leave the hospital in the afternoon and go home.”

Rojas was Spanish road race champion in 2011, did the Olympics in London in 2012 and has stage victories in the Tour of the Basque Country and the Vuelta a Espana. In 2015, he won a stage of the Tour of Qatar and ahcieved multiple places of honour.