🇫🇷 #ParisNice In La Colle-sur-Loup, @rogla finishes in the reduced GC group, with Skjelmose taking the win. Primož now moves up to 11th in GC, 1:44 minutes down on new race leader McNulty. 📸: @sprintcycling
"I always think about attacking, but you have to have the legs for it" - Primoz Roglic now nearly two minutes down at Paris-Nice
CyclingSaturday, 09 March 2024 at 10:15
After coming home in 9th, 53 seconds down on Brandon McNulty, Matteo Jorgenson and Mattias Skjelmose, Primoz Roglic is now 1:44 down in the general classification at Paris-Nice 2024 with just two stages to go.
Is the BORA - hansgrohe leader too far down to make an impact in the upper echelons of the standings? Roglic himself refuses to rule out anything. "I always think about attacking," the Slovenian said post-stage 6 in conversation with HLN although he does add a caveat. "You have to have the legs for it. If I have them, I will do my best. For the rest: so far so good."
BORA - hansgrohe's sports director, Rolf Aldag is keen to point out that this is Roglic's first race since Il Lombardia 2023, so the fact he's not yet in peak form is no concern. "That was a very long period without competition," he explains. "The first time back racing inevitably involves getting past that point where your lungs are on fire and you get a taste of blood in your throat."
"Remco Evenepoel is already one step further in that respect. He clearly made his debut in the Algarve at a different starting point," Aldag continues. "Primoz is currently more or less keeping pace uphill. But it's not like he has 25% surplus to say: 'I'm going to get over him'. Fine and fair, we are at peace with that."
With a potentially key weekend of climbing upcoming at Paris-Nice, Roglic's coach Marc Lamberts is keen to play down expectations of a GC raid by his rider. "Those two rides don't suit him that well," Lamberts analyses honestly.
"On Saturday it is barely possible to overcome a difference in altitude of two thousand metres. And Sunday is more of a route for classic riders," he concludes. "The bad weather does not play in Primoz's favour either. Anyway. Someone like him, who at the age of 34 has already swam through several rougher waters, will not lose any sleep over it."
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