"It seems to me that Primoz Roglic is the only one who has looked at the race book" - Johan Bruyneel praises Slovenian's energy saving at Giro d'Italia
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Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin discussed stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia 2025 and the ongoing GC battle between Primoz Roglic and UAE Team Emirates - XRG duo Isaac del Toro and Juan Ayuso who currently have the superiority over the Slovenian in every wa.
They were analyzing the obvious superiority that Isaac del Toro currently has over Juan Ayuso and Primoz Roglic and the keys for one of them to win the Corsa Rosa in Rome on June 1.
Bruyneel: "Del Toro, third as expected. We're going to have to wait for him to explode if he explodes. At the moment, if you look at the way he's riding, especially the way he's positioned, he's got the best of everybody overall. That's for one reason and that's he's got extraordinary legs, he's got diamond legs in this Giro. He looks easy, he looks fluid. He's a serious candidate to win the Giro."
Martin: "This is no disrespect to Juan Ayuso, but the way Del Toro is positioned and moves within the peloton seems much more relaxed than Ayuso's." Bruyneel: "And that Primoz Roglic, he also seems to be more relaxed than Ayuso."
Martin: "He's (Del Toro, ed.) upped his lead over Ayuso from 25 seconds to 38 seconds, that's pretty good considering it's been bonus seconds. Roglic has gone from 1:18 to 1:35, he's slowly pulling away from them. These efforts are very different to what they're going to do in the third week. It seems to me that Primoz Roglic is the only one who has looked at the race book".
Bruyneel: "Yesterday Roglic didn't even try to get into the Red Bull KM sprint. Maybe it's deliberated, but maybe it's because he can't, that he's just still there trying to improve. Against Del Toro I think Primoz needs to have a great last week. He just needs to have two big stages where Del Toro has to explode".
"It's something that is very possible, there are very hard stages and 1:35 is nothing if you have a bad time, it can be lost in a moment. But you have to count on Del Toro to fail and have a bad last week, which is what is supposed to happen, but day by day he is looking extremely strong and he could make it."
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