"I don't care about the time gaps, I put everything on the road day after day" - Primoz Roglic admits he's struggling at 2025 Tour de France
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For the third time in four days at the 2025 Tour de France, Primoz Roglic found himself caught out in the finale on stage 4, suffering more time loss to drop to 1:27 down on his compatriot Tadej Pogacar and the Maillot Jaune Mathieu van der Poel heading into the stage 5 individual time trial.
Speaking in comments collected by ITV Sport as he warmed down on the rollers post-stage however, Roglic didn't seem too downhearted. When asked if he was still simply riding his way into the Tour, "Yes exactly," answered the Slovenian. "Like I said, for me it was quite tough to be honest, to come here with this tough start."
Having been forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia earlier this year following numerous crashes, it's somewhat understandable that Roglic isn't at his best in this challenging opening week. "If I was flying, I could ride up there with one leg! (laughs) But right now I'm suffering a lot," he admits. "But yeah, I always want to win. But in this case, I don't care about the time gaps, I put everything on the road day after day and then yeah, we'll see what that means at the end."
Although crashes have been prevalent so far this Tour, Roglic has been able to avoid them so far however, in a positive sign. "Don't say it too loud though!" Roglic laughs when this fact is mentioned. "We need to be quiet but for sure, it would nice to come home to Paris no? Long time no see."
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"It would be nice to see Paris, long time no see, huh"
— ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 8, 2025
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- It doesnt take a genius to understand that Pogi is 1 level above and Pogi is younger that Jonas, so Jonas will not win under ordinary circumstances. Pogi has to crack hard for Jonas to win. It doesn't matter whether you defend Jonas or not , facts remain facts. Jonas himself says his numbers are better than 2022/2023, so Jonas is more or less optimized and we are just see the stochastic variation due to other factors. I think he will retire along with Pedersen in WC denmarkabstractengineer13-11-2026
- They only raced each other during the 2026 Tour, but here's a few metrics to look at. Stage 3 (Granollers to Les Angles): Pogačar won the stage, finishing 2 seconds ahead of Vingegaard (2nd). Del Toro finished 24 seconds behind Stage 6 (Pau to Gavarnie-Gedre / Col du Tourmalet): Pogačar won solo, Vingegaard finished 2nd (losing 2:38), and Del Toro finished 3rd (at +2:57, finishing 19 seconds behind Vingegaard). Here, Jonas Vingegaard outclimbed Isaac del Toro by 19 seconds on the mountain stageawp13-11-2026
- your clinging to the past. Jonas was dropped by del toro many times last year and jonas never managed a climbing numers del toro did in dauphine last year -entire year. Trend is also evident theres no discussion your living in the past, its beent he same with jonas for many years now and only developing, meanwhile del toro is rising and developing greatly. This is all obvious stuff and im not even a del toro fan. No point discussing numbers or this i suspect you dont watch much now but rather think its 2022 still cause this aint hard.miguel13-11-2026
- We can go through metrics if you like, Del Toro, who I do admire and support, is not on the same level as Jonas just yet. You will see that in early 2027 if they have any crossover races. I do hope they both race the Giro. You are correct though, Jonas is getting older and will not be able to hand on much longer. I see 2027 as a good year for him. Obviously behind Tadej though.awp13-11-2026
- What wins? Are you LA operating under a pseudonym?mij13-11-2026
- My point is this - Tadej, Remco, Seixas are all the outliers. Many riders don’t hit their peak until 28. It’s way too early to write him off. And the pogi slo guy that hates him - he’s also immature. Ayuso needs time.mij13-11-2026
- Then you need to use ur eyes or head if you have cause del toro already dropped jonas two times and beat him in tdf stages already this year.. Del toro climbed(dauphine) better numbers than jonas did all year too. So ur feelings and wishful thinking doesnt amtter del toro himself has already surpassed jonas infact just facts. Its also very evident for anyone objective that Jonas is declining alot, its just the truth and super obvious.miguel13-11-2026
- None of those victories stand, so there's that,wrsty13-11-2026
- No surprise there; it is British Sycling, yes, with an S
Rafionain-Glas12-11-2026 - I like Del Toro but he's not on the level of Jonas, by a large margin.awp12-11-2026
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