OFFICIAL | Giro d'Italia and Tour de France - BORA confirms Primoz Roglic's main goals for key 2025 season
Cycling
Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic... The so called 'big 4' Grand Tour contenders, on paper, are all open to race the Giro d'Italia. But we do not have to wonder anymore if any will. Primoz Roglic has been confirmed to aim for the Giro, and will then race the Tour after right after!
Big news emerge from the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe camp this Saturday, as the managers and riders open up to the media about their goals and plans for the 2025 season. Talking to a group of journalists, as reported by In de Leidertrui, team manager Ralph Denk did not keep the mystery regarding the Slovenian's calendar for the upcoming season:
"It was a fairly easy choice. He normally finishes in the Vuelta, so it's better that I start with the first Grand Tour of the year now, also now that we are going through Slovenia in the Giro. The Tour was also an easy choice".
Short but to the point. Primoz Roglic, winner of the 2023 edition, will make a comeback to the Corsa Rosa after understanding that a Tour win is a huge task at hand with rivals such as Tadej Pogacar and rival Jonas Vingegaard. He had hinted that he may go for a calendar that will split him for racing against his compatriot, and had been heavily rumoured to start the Giro which should start in the Eastern European nation of Albania next spring.
Denk confirmed at the same time that Roglic will then race the Tour de France, replicating the schedule Pogacar had this spring - proving that you can race both at the highest level in modern cycling. The 35-year old has the Tour as the one Grand Tour left to win in his palmarès, and it is a very big goal for win to still win it one day.
Roglic was on the fight for the podium at the Tour this year, before he crashed out of the race for the third consecutive time. He bounced back to win the Vuelta a España, a strong performance to bring his first Grand Tour since joining the German team, where he also put out some of his very best climbing performances.
"The focus is on the three biggest races, we are confident that we will be competitive. This program has been drawn up in consultation with the riders," Denk concluded. More details from the team are expected today.
Read also
💥 A fresh look for 2025! 💥
— Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe (@RBH_ProCycling) December 13, 2024
Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe is excited to ride from head to toe with Specialized 👊🏼
Check it out here 👉🏼 https://t.co/ay8PgtcRIE pic.twitter.com/dPp41krjdK
Rúben SilvaEditor-in-Chief
A founding contributor to CyclingUpToDate since its launch in January 2022, Ruben Silva has played a central role in shaping the site’s editorial direction and long-term growth. Before joining the project, he built his experience through independent blogging at Echelons Hub and by producing race previews for Ciclismo Internacional, developing a strong analytical voice rooted in daily engagement with professional cycling.
Beyond editorial work, he has been closely involved in the expansion and coordination of CyclingUpToDate’s wider network, helping establish and support sister platforms across multiple languages. This includes ongoing collaboration with CiclismoAlDia (Spanish), CiclismoAtual (Portuguese), WielrennenUpToDate (Dutch), and RadsportAktuell (German), contributing to a shared editorial vision and consistent international coverage.
He also helps oversee editorial governance across the network, setting standards for accuracy and consistency and coordinating updates or corrections when needed.
Originally from the Porto metropolitan area in Portugal, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography. His path into cycling journalism was shaped not through formal media training, but through independent reporting, community engagement, and sustained on-the-ground involvement in the sport.
Over the course of his career, he has conducted approximately 100 interviews across road cycling and cyclocross, ranging from one-to-one conversations and online formats to press conferences and on-site pre- and post-race coverage. His interviews include leading riders, team managers, and prominent figures within cycling media: Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Mathieu van der Poel, Primoz Roglic, Wout van Aert, Joao Almeida and Tom Pidcock; managers like Patrick Lefevere and Joxean Matxin; and YouTube personality Bryan Kennedy (BKXC)...
Within 18 months of launch, he helped grow CyclingUpToDate’s English-language platform into one of the most-read cycling news websites, built entirely from the ground up. As both a professional journalist and lifelong cycling enthusiast, his focus remains on delivering accurate, timely, and well-contextualized coverage.
claps 0visitors 0
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Thibau Nys does exactly what Iserbyt is calling for
Rafionain-Glas08-11-2026 - i did not see it. was the relegation justified or an overly hard decision? and don‘t cross riders deviate from straight lines all the time? bumping into each others when they cut corners, etc … why being more strict with the rules on the finish sprint?Ketterechts08-11-2026
- seems like we are advertising the website with pointless comments…Ketterechts08-11-2026
- So?Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
- The UCI do have their favorites.
Front24208-11-2026 - On a positive note, you maybe notice turning this topic into a discussion has the benefit of eliminating certain participants who do not see how they can turn it back to their sole interest ;-)Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
- People see what they want to. I am actually the opposite of your accusation, probably more of a rebel than most of you who don’t get the big picture. The difference is, I don’t go moaning publicly about the consequences of my transgressions, I understand the need for rules and I take my OWN responsibility when deciding to ignore or break them or doing so involuntarily. I will also not hesitate to state my case or argue vehemently when relevant, sometimes it works, sometimes it makes things worse but that’s the price to pay for principles and having character.Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
- That may be but that was unknown to others and nothing says that’s the whole truth. Again, don’t try to misinterpret, it is a call and technically it is correct. Besides, even if there is a valid reason, that does not disqualify the ruling or punishment as far as the rules have been developed. I don’t think they’re as far as in football where for handball there is a distinction (in some ways and specific cases) between intentional or not. And football can be just as harsh and people live with it, eg the offside rule, also judged to within tiny fractions but often wrong or ignored. It’s the nature of every collective organisation and sometimes I wonder if our rebellion against it isn’t seated in the feelings we carry from the injustices we’ve felt personally, like being flashed driving 1km/h too fast when we are explained limits are just a security measure but we are absolutely certain not to have endangered anyone with our transgression. The problem is, nobody has better solutions and no 2 people have the same interpretation of where a limit should be.Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
- Because for you deviated implies the other rider MUST have been made to fall and fail to finish ??? I don’t know if you ride a bike but next time someone carves you up or drives dangerously close, just hold back from those feelings of changing something, reporting or filming or even complaining. Everyone will just say, hey you’re still here undamaged, doesn’t seem like anyone did anything.Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
- And we, what are we doing?Jumpyjohn08-11-2026
Loading
Write a comment