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"For Roglič it will be even better at Bora" - Tadej Pogacar anticipates more competition at Tour de France
CyclingThursday, 23 November 2023 at 10:06
Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic are no strangers to each other but in 2024 they'll face themselves under different conditions. The compatriots will both be racing against Jumbo-Visma this time around as Roglic is set to lead a new team that will fight for the biggest wins.
“For me, it’s gonna be the same, but for Roglič it will be even better at Bora, and it opens the competition more because he split with Jumbo. So now there is Jumbo and also Bora, so it’s a bigger competition," Pogacar told GCN in a recent interview.
After the Vuelta a Espana Roglic understood that he would not have the freedom to fight for a Tour de France title as a sole leader and decided to move away from the Dutch team. BORA - hansgrohe offered him a huge contract and a team that has strong climbers present already, and will make for good competition. Alongside Pogacar and Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel are also among those who will likely aim for the yellow jersey in July.
“I’m really sad that we lost some really good riders, but on the other hand, we also gained really good riders, so I would say it’s a super good team," Pogacar assures. "We already met each other in October and it was fantastic. I would say it’s a super team."
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- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024
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- Yeah.... gear 😅.mikolajjj24-12-2024
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- Ok, happy I’m not too interested in this team coz’ the account of what happened is really hard to follow.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- The UCI is worse than USA CyclingVeganpotter24-12-2024
- It's not like they wanted her to not win😅 She had an outstanding Olympics. But there's a reason why she wasn't expected to win the road race and that's ok. Things like this happen and it's great...better than seeing expected winners win.Veganpotter24-12-2024
- Bruyneel ? The man with a lifetime ban from cycling...why do you keep giving him and his doper mate, Armstrong, a platform?DJ24-12-2024
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