"I'm happy with this and it makes me optimistic" - Primoz Roglic closing gap to Tour de France podium with 3rd place in first ITT
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It's fair to say that Primoz Roglic's 2024 Tour de France didn't start ideally. Is the Slovenian starting to ride himself into the race however? On the stage 7 individual time trial, Roglic gained time on his former teammate Jonas Vingegaard, closing the gap to the podium places in the process.
"I'm tired. I wanted to go faster, but I gave it my all with my performance," reflects the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe leader honestly in his post-stage interview, having stopped the clock with the 3rd fastest time, losing 34 seconds to stage winner Remco Evenepoel and 22 seconds to the Maillot Jaune wearing Tadej Pogacar, but gaining 3 seconds on the aforementioned Team Visma | Lease a Bike leader, Jonas Vingegaard.
"I can be optimistic. It's been a long time since I rode such a tough seventh stage of the Tour de France," continues Roglic with a wry smile, clearly still in good spirits and showcasing his now typical form of dry humour. "It wasn't such a good sign that I had to start as the first of the favourites, because that means they are a bit better, but I'm happy with this and it makes me optimistic. I'm looking ahead."
In terms of the general classification, Roglic now sits 4th overall, overtaking Juan Ayuso and closing the gap to just 21 seconds on his former teammate Vingegaard. At 1:36 down on such an impressive Pogacar however, it already is beginning to look like Roglic's Maillot Jaune dreams may have to be put on hold for yet another season.
2024 Tour de France stage 7 results:
| 1 | EVENEPOEL Remco | Soudal Quick-Step | 210 | 00:28:52 |
| 2 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE Team Emirates | 150 | + 12 |
| 3 | ROGLIC Primoz | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | 110 | + 34 |
| 4 | VINGEGAARD Jonas | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 90 | + 37 |
| 5 | CAMPENAERTS Victor | Lotto Dstny | 70 | + 52 |
| 6 | VAUQUELIN Kévin | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | 55 | + 52 |
| 7 | JORGENSON Matteo | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 45 | + 54 |
| 8 | ALMEIDA Joao | UAE Team Emirates | 40 | + 57 |
| 9 | HEALY Ben | EF Education-EasyPost | 35 | + 59 |
| 10 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | 30 | + 01:00 |
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- exactly, he had an amazing season, but with these overstatements they don‘t do him good.Ketterechts08-11-2026
- More to the point, it isn't his remaining goal.Renz08-11-2026
- lol yeahmij08-11-2026
- I know, their headlines can be so misleading. Pidcock had a great season with 5 wins. and some solid 2nds. no reason to take away from that with a fake headline.mij08-11-2026
- You can clearly see the the posture change from slightly sitting to again out of the saddle while changing of gears in the video of the sprintabstractengineer08-11-2026
- He has already beaten Pogi twice in the TDF. the achievement is over. He cannot beat Pogi now and he only has a few years left at the top. Win Giro and compete in the TDF, maximise palmares.abstractengineer08-11-2026
- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
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