OFFICIAL | Giro d'Italia and Tour de France - BORA confirms Primoz Roglic's main goals for key 2025 season
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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.
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- I am pretty sure both have won 10 races.Sweep15-12-2024
- Are you MV???Mistermaumau15-12-2024
- Don’t really understand the point of making a point of it, especially as he stands to get the same crowd without the extra cost. It could be any number of reasons, the first of which might be that after 12 years of it, maybe he wants to try something new?Mistermaumau15-12-2024
- Jan tratnik is a stupid man,very stupid indeed. No backbone, no wonder he goes around switching teams following Primoz like a lost puppy. Very stupid man. No aura at allSelle15-12-2024
- umm, i wasn’t “subliminally” suggesting anything about the effort level of wout and mathieu. those guys are training fanatics, duh. what’s DIFFERENT about the cx season from other sports is that guys like eli and michael ARE the ones at the top, racing to WIN, all season UNTIL the first day mathieu shows up, then all that is suddenly OVER. i honestly can’t think of another sport that has that kind of situation. where the top guys’ season all just goes down the drain EVERY YEAR with the return in mid to late season of ONE GUY.OCexile15-12-2024
- Yeah ok but this is the story of thousands ifnot millions of athletes across every sport, most train just as hard and sacrifice just as much but when it comes to the big time, there are always a couple better than you who everyone is going to want to see or discuss. Why should it be any different for level 2 than 3 or 6 or 20? The majority of fans and media rightly follow their own stories plus those of the very best. PS it’s kind of insulting (of MV) to subliminally suggest that MVDP and WVA don’t equally give their all for training and races, you don’t get to that level by taking it easy, even if it looks like it sometimes.Mistermaumau15-12-2024
- They better give him knee sliders for those downhill corners.
KerisVroom15-12-2024 - i know that virtually every pro who races with wout and mathieu likes or at least respects them, both in the road peloton and in cx. but as popular as they are amongst their peers, it’s gotta be just immensely frustrating for hard-working guys like vanthourenhout, lars and eli to deal with the staggering dominance of MVDP and WVA. given all the effort, the physical and emotional energy that gets poured into the goal of WINNING, it must be a tremendous psychological shock to the system EVERY SINGLE YEAR, YEAR AFTER YEAR to have your whole season, your whole mindset, all of your ambitions and expectations change with something akin to the flip of a switch the day that wout and mathieu decide to line up.OCexile15-12-2024
- This is absurd. Nobody is beating Pogi next season anyway. But this injury in December is far better to have in terms of TdF prep than his big crash last season.Veganpotter14-12-2024
- definitely different goals. unlike wout, mathieu is hell-bent on winning World’s. the 11 races are about proper preparation and, i imagine, legislating the title if he gets it. if he rode 3 races then took the world title i think there would be a TON of chatter about him disrespecting the sport and the other riders who have worked all year.OCexile13-12-2024