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Primoz Roglic focuses on his own Tour de France preparation, and not in his rivals: "We don’t manage Team Jumbo-Visma. They will do what they will do"
CyclingThursday, 11 January 2024 at 11:33
Primoz Roglic is the rider who takes the most attention in the BORA - hangrohe camp currently taking place in Mallorca. Training in his new colours with his new teammates, the Slovenian is fully focused on the goal of performing and possibly winning the Tour de France.
“The key point is going for the Tour de France. For everything in between, it’s a bonus or a plus if you can achieve good results. But mostly, you need to stay healthy and happy, and then the rest will follow," Roglic said in words shared by Cyclingnews, after BORA - hansgrohe's media day. In his traditionally calm and slightly vague words, the 34-year old conveys the idea that he is not going to be focusing on what his rivals will be doing on the approach to the Grand Boucle, but on everything he can do to arrive in his best form.
Last year, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard notably avoided each other all year long except for Paris-Nice - where Pogacar was a late entry. This year Pogacar continues to avoid all his rivals for the Tour, following a completely separate calendar in the spring. However, Roglic will face Jonas Vingegaard at the Itzulia Basque Country and Criterium du Dauphiné, and Remco Evenepoel in those two events and also Paris-Nice. There will be plenty direct confrontations with his rivals before the big race, however he is unlikely to race alongside Pogacar until July.
“It’s stupid now to think about it. I have to focus on my job, we just have to do what we can do. We don’t manage Team Jumbo-Visma. They will do what they will do... We shouldn’t be afraid or nervous about the result or the outcome. It will be what it will be," he adds. "The main point is that we do our best on a daily basis. With that, we’ll definitely all leave happy.”
Of course, Team Visma | Lease a Bike was brought up in the press conference, as Rolf Aldag talked about the team's former rider Cian Uijtdebroeks, and Roglic adressed his own departure from the Dutch team who he will now race against. “It’s hard to pick a day or a date when I decided to change team, it was building up for a longer period of time, and, at the end, it was quite simple for myself and the team to separate the ways," he admits.
"Changes are a part of life, eh. For me, it’s important, not just from the training side. He (Marc Lamberts, Roglic's coach, ed.) brings a lot of knowledge and information about everything, so it makes the transition a bit smoother, and it feels more like home because I have been working with him from the start in 2016.”
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