And if Primoz Roglic was the number one opponent of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) on this Tour de France 2024 ? Uncertainties surrounding the state of form of Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) and on the capacity to Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) to hold up in the high mountains may suggest that the Slovenian of the new Red Bull – BORA-hansgrohe will be the main competitor to the one who is the huge favorite of this 111th edition. Four years after his immense disillusionment with the Planche des Belles Filles and after having given up during his last two participations, Primoz Roglic always aims to win the Tourand at 34, time is running out for the former ski jumper, even if he doesn’t really agree with that.
Primoz Roglic and his new Red Bull kit – BORA-hansgrohe
“I just want to have no regrets and do everything possible”
“It’s true, I’m 34, but I still feel young. I really don’t worry about it”he said at a press conference on Thursday evening. “I changed teams to give myself the opportunity to win the Tour, and now there are two possibilities: either I win or I don’t win. And next year there will be another Tour. I just want to have no regrets and do everything I can.”continues the ever so pragmatic Primoz Roglic.
Winner of Dauphiné Criterion at the beginning of the month, being rather convincing – “jHe was one of the people who didn’t really believe in the fact that he was an important opponent of Pogacar on the Tour, but he scored points in my eyes on this Critérium du Dauphiné.our columnist told us Cyrille Guimard two weeks ago – the triple winner of the Tour of Spain will try to be the best possible at every stage of this Tour 2024.
“It’s a crazy first week, right?”
“The Tour lasts three weeks and you have to be there from the first to the last day. There will already be a big fight on the first and second stages, big mountains with the Galibier on stage 4, then the time trial and the gravel stage. It’s a crazy first week, right? And even harder things will follow“, concludes the one who will have a very strong team to support him, including Aleksandr Vlasov et Jai Hindley.
