"His numbers are still getting better" - Primoz Roglic and BORA on Tadej Pogacar

Primoz Roglic will headline Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe's 2025 ever-growing lineup and will be doing what Tadej Pogacar did this past year: The Giro-Tour double. At the start of the season he's talked about his form, Tadej Pogacar, and was compared to Mark Cavendish by his sports director.

"We signed a bunch of strong guys. Putting all the best guys on paper at one race, it's necessary that will work, then you need to connect all these pieces together. I'm looking forward to the season and spending more time together on the bike, to get to know each other and build trust between us," Roglic said in words to Cyclingnews. The German team has signed tons of quality riders this season, but mostly for the classics. The Slovenian however has his former right-hand man Jan Tratnik back alongside him, and this should be the case at both Giro d'Italia and Tour de France.

"The goal is just to reach my best shape. The results will be what they will be. All the other best guys will go, you know, but looking at myself, what I can strive for is to try to build myself into the best Primož that there was," he says, leaving everything open.

At the team training camp he began to build on his serious form towards the 2025 season, and will make his racing debut next week at the Volta ao Algarve where he will battle none other than Jonas Vingegaard in the fight for the overall classification. But Tadej Pogacar he will likely only face at the Tour de France.

Rold Aldag believes that Roglic's compatriot won't be any easier to compete against: "We still feel, importantly, like he's still getting better and still improving. There's no thought that we're on the top of the hill and now everything is about trying to slow down the downhill – we don't feel like this".

"Also, to my understanding from the performance team, his numbers are still getting better and that's good to see," he says. "What we don't have an influence on is what is Tadej going to do, and what Jonas is going to do".

On Roglic, the German DS commented on and said that he is quite a special charachter, but someone who is well capable of leading the team - in 2025 "Sometimes, he builds a wall and it's just really difficult to look over that wall. But if he opens up, he has something to say, that is very valid to the staff and to his teammates".

"Well, as you know, I worked with Mark Cavendish so I can tell you I went to bigger highs and deeper lows with him as well. That's why I'm still quite relaxed about Primoz. If you think it's going bad, then you can think back on some of the days with Cav".