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Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic team up to hunt rainbow jersey - Slovenia reveals '7' for Zurich World Championships
CyclingSunday, 15 September 2024 at 14:37
Slovenia has won all Grand Tours this season with Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic, and now the duo will team up together for the first time this year at the World Championships where coincidentally the rouite will be suited to the climbers and they will be among the main favourites for the rainbow jersey.
"The goal is to win a medal in both the time trial and the road race. With Primoz, we have a big contender for the time trial. We are counting on one medal for the road race, but it could be two, of course. We will need a bit of luck," team national coach Uros Murn told MMC RTV Slovenija.
"It is incredibly beautiful that we have two guys who win Grand Tours in the same year. That is unthinkable for all countries in the world, but this time not for our little Slovenia. We know that they both have a busy schedule with their team, but it is an honour that they also want to represent their country at the World Championships".
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The course in Zurich will have 4200 meters of climbing and is one of the best routes for climbers in recent years. Despite their generational talent, neither Pogacar or Roglic have ever won a world title and this will be an opportunity as well suited as it could be for the time being. Alongside the likes of Remco Evenepoel and Mathieu van der Poel they will be among the favourites.
Backing them up will be Matej Mohoric and Jan Tratnik who can be very dangerous wildcards and important riders for the eastern European nation; and three support riders in Domen Novak, Luka Mezgec and Matevz Govekar.
Slovenia for Zurich World Championships Men's Elite Road Race:
Primoz Roglic (Will race the time-trial as well)
Tadej Pogacar
Matej Mohoric
Domen Novak
Luka Mezgec
Jan Tratnik
Matevz Govekar
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- yeah, that’s a more fair assessment. “reaching mathieu’s level” doesn’t mean you’re planning to replicate his whole career. the former IS doable, potentially. it’s just the latter that likely is not.OCexile25-12-2024
- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024
- well, del grosso is 21 right now. when mathieu was a year younger than that, he was already winning elite level world championships, not U23. i think del grosso will be a very good pro for years, but if he was really going to be the next van der poel someday, he’d already have to be at that level right NOW. van der poel was showing signs of true greatness when he was 15-16. THAT’S what generational talent looks like.OCexile25-12-2024
- Yeah.... gear 😅.mikolajjj24-12-2024
- It shouldn’t be about expectations in the first place should it? Besides, if you look at everyone’s calculations as a whole they don’t add up in the first place. There’ll be 2-3 riders with a 50% chance, a dozen with 10 or 20% and dozens more with a 5% so we’re expecting at least 2 if not 3 winners. Remind me again who won before her? Says it all about using data to decide on participation.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- Ok, happy I’m not too interested in this team coz’ the account of what happened is really hard to follow.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- The UCI is worse than USA CyclingVeganpotter24-12-2024
- It's not like they wanted her to not win😅 She had an outstanding Olympics. But there's a reason why she wasn't expected to win the road race and that's ok. Things like this happen and it's great...better than seeing expected winners win.Veganpotter24-12-2024
- Bruyneel ? The man with a lifetime ban from cycling...why do you keep giving him and his doper mate, Armstrong, a platform?DJ24-12-2024
- yeah, agree. on the subject of being a “complete rider,” i do think that’s getting more interesting. mathieu seems to have decided he wants to get much better at climbing the the high mountain passes. he appears to be looking for new challenges, which should be interesting to watch. in most cases you’d dismiss a goal like that at age 30, but it’s mvdp. he’s never going to climb with the real climbers, but if he can improve enough it could open up stage wins when the parcours isnt just purely toothy and punchy.OCexile24-12-2024