Primoz Roglic to skip La Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege following Itzulia horror crash
CyclingFriday, 12 April 2024 at 09:19
Still feeling the effects of that brutal Itzulia Basque Country crash, Primoz Roglic has been forced to abandon his plans to compete at La Fleche Wallone and Liege-Bastogne-Liege.
This, according to Het Laatste Nieuws, comes as the Slovenian looks to protect his Maillot Jaune hopes at the Tour de France later this year, by skipping the Ardennes Classics and instead resting, recuperating and then travelling to an altitude training camp with his BORA - hansgrohe team.
Roglic actually won Liege-Bastogne-Liege back in 2020 and if fully fit, would've fancied his chances this time around too, especially since fellow contender, Remco Evenepoel also crashed hard in the same Itzulia Basque Country incident and suffered multiple fractures.
As it is however, both Evenepoel and Roglic will be absent from the monument this time around. Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel start as favourites, with BORA - hansgrohe now likely to rely on Aleksandr Vlasov to pull off a good result for the team.
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- Hey, all great and deserving of respect but let’s not look at things too pinkly. He’s only just above Marc Hirschi in the UCI rankings. He’s had the potential to do this for the last 7-8 years, it’s just all come together at once, having his moment. Maybe he went on a secret HA camp :-) Seriously though, he’s NEVER said he doesn’t believe in it (challenge: find me that quote), he said he hates it in words that would get an F1 driver punished, and for the same reasons that his fellow countryman Jonas gets crucified for, being away from family (though given team budgets, there is an obvious solution to that). Besides, not very professional of media and pundits to linger on past out of date sayings, he’s more or less changed his mind in the meantime and is no longer categoric about refusing to try.Mistermaumau12-05-2025
- I don’t think that pays off in cycling, you never know when your next problem will happen, injury, illness, crash, and using so much time to prepare for a big goal risks being very disappointing in a short career.Mistermaumau12-05-2025
- I love Remco but this year is a write-off. The smart move would be to treat it all as preparation for next season.Renz12-05-2025
- What you forget about hunting is that time is on the side of the hunter. You’d be a fool to underestimate rivals who haven’t peaked and I doubt you’ll hear any riders including TP or JV brushing him off like you’re trying. He’s done one GT against them, his first, what were you expecting? Still way ahead of any other contenders and that as a first-timer.Mistermaumau12-05-2025
- Its appears that way. Repeated crashes take a toll on the bodyabstractengineer11-05-2025
- He cannot hunt down something that he has never been close to in GTsabstractengineer11-05-2025
- He's just not the same after the crash at La Vuelta. I hope the knee injury does not "Chris Froome" his career.
KerisVroom11-05-2025 - Well, I didn’t hear any strict instructions from management so why shouldn’t it be like Visma’s infamous Vuelta unless things heat up? Am sure they don’t regret sweeping the podium which was only possible because internal rivalry was at least as strong as external.Mistermaumau11-05-2025
- In principle, but he’ll always have that Planche des Belles Filles TdF loss in his mind nowadays so not sure he’ll be so keen on giving away anything anymoreif he doesn’t really have to. It’s a matter of weighing (dis)advantages and I’m not so sure the media obligations always outweigh the psychological effects that a win or domination bring, unless you’re bad at dealing with pressure which I doubt is the case with Primoz.Mistermaumau11-05-2025
- so sad...
maria2024202410-05-2025
Wise move! Don't risk further injuries at this stage of his career. The older you get, the slower your recovery time will be😅