Very unhappy on the big loop since 2020, the Slovenian has assumed the race on Saturday in Lille, without any particular pressure.
Despite his “unfinished storyWith the Tour de France, Primoz Roglic, who has not finished a big loop since 2020, explained Thursday, at the day before the departure, that he had “Just want to arrive in Paris». Apparently peaceful at a press conference, the Slovenian leader of the Red Bull-Bora team said “Happy to participate in the biggest cycling event in the world“, With the desire to”See day by day and try to enjoy».
Without resentment, therefore, despite a story thwarted with the Tour from the 2020 edition where victory seemed promised to him before Tadej Pogacar reversed the situation during the last time trial. Since then, Roglic has not joined the arrival. And at 35, he is well aware that he evolves a notch below his compatriot and even Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel. But he seems to have made his peace with the Tour, after having abandoned in his last three participations (2021, 2022 and 2024).
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«For my part, I don’t care a bithe confessed. I know which races I have won, the ones I have not won.» «I have nothing to prove to anyone, he added. I just want to arrive in Paris and drink a cup of champagne there. (…) We can blame yourself for certain things, but not for others. It’s always easier to learn things that don’t go well, rather than things that are going well.»
This year, his team made him the leader but presents another good card with the German Florian Lipowitz (24 years old), third in the Critérium du Dauphiné. “”He showed that he had a very good level in the Dauphinéa souligné Roglic. Why not do the same here, on the Tour de France?»
