Roglic turned pro at 23 - not 27 as the Belgian suggested - and has since turned into one of the most versatile riders in the peloton, aswell as one of the most successful. Despite his heartbreaks at the Tour de France, he has won three consecutive editions of the Vuelta a España (which he will be defending soon) and several other high level wins in both stage-races and one-day races.
Vanmarcke used the example of a recent Tour de France winner to support his point on the
Jumbo-Visma rider: “Cadel Evans also won the Tour at the age of 34 when everyone wrote him off, but it will have to be the right scenario to put all the puzzle pieces together to drop.”