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I think i understand this now. Primož never wanted to leave Jumbo, but Lora (his wife) saw all this new shiny Bora kitchen appliances and demanded he moves to Bora Hansgrohe so she can get them for a good discount. They also promised to teach Primož how to cook and new Hansgrohe taps were offered under the table.
It was Lora all along!
It was Lora all along!
Doing dad stuff, with his ski jumping buddy Peter Prevc, who retired this year
Where's the child?!Doing dad stuff, with his ski jumping buddy Peter Prevc, who retired this year
Roglic is so weird in that he can look like he has a fat ass on the bike and then you put him in normal human clothes and he looks like Bonesy from anatomy practice.
I know the fact of Roglic being a former ski jumper has been brought up countless times, but it's really only when I see pictures like this when I truly realize it. Seeing him and Prevc just being old buddies still feels so surreal.Doing dad stuff, with his ski jumping buddy Peter Prevc, who retired this year
The subject is interesting with the side-by-side pictures with a ski jumper in what we can assume almost prime condition weight wise, having finished the career a month ago... because I remember Roglič being much happier with transition to cycling because as he said at the time "you don't have to care about eating too much"... but now he looks leaner than a ski jumper... poor Roglič, didn't know what he signed up for after all I guess.
I think he still eats a lot more than he used to, except now he burns much more calories on his typical training day than he did when he was a ski jumper. But yeah, he does look leaner than Prevc who won his last World Cup event a month ago, so he’s still as lean as they get…
I agree about him eating more, but I would still argue he got leaner with years in cycling.
Got no great pictures for illustration, but 2015-2016-... Roglič did not have "literal" holes below cheeks (even if he was never really "roundish").
He also did not struggle with the cold conditions as much in the early years.
I believe Roglič is going asymptotic to the limit this year with regards to such controllable aspects, and is if anything leaner then ever.
Not that I necessarily put too much value on one looking lean one way or another.
Got no great pictures for illustration, but 2015-2016-... Roglič did not have "literal" holes below cheeks (even if he was never really "roundish").
He also did not struggle with the cold conditions as much in the early years.
I believe Roglič is going asymptotic to the limit this year with regards to such controllable aspects, and is if anything leaner then ever.
Not that I necessarily put too much value on one looking lean one way or another.
I'm actually a bit surprised that they're such a good buddies, as Prevc was in the Slovenia A teams ever since Vancouver 2010 while Roglic was...well, mostly in the CC team so I'd guess they hardly trained together, hence building a friendship looks strange but what do I know..
Doing dad stuff, with his ski jumping buddy Peter Prevc, who retired this year
I've heard that recently retired Peter Prevc is considering cycling career. Primoz told him there are similarities (i.e. high-adrenaline moments in the air).
I've met Prevc 2 weeks ago in a known pizza place in Slovenia so i'm sure he's working hard towards gaining more weight 
As of Roglič, he said many times, he didn't like ski jumping, because you really need to eat a lot less, because you don't burn calories. He was hungry most of the time. In cycling, he can eat a lot more, because he burns calories.
As of Roglič, he said many times, he didn't like ski jumping, because you really need to eat a lot less, because you don't burn calories. He was hungry most of the time. In cycling, he can eat a lot more, because he burns calories.
nobody ever did. Those that encourage you to start: "You'd only need to train a couple of hours....it's enjoyable". They never mention that it was everyday, forever and doubly when the weather is crappy.
I just realised how rare it is that Rogla really drops everyone on a mountain stage (before the sprint). The last time he did that was the 2022 Dauphiné stage to Vaujany when Vingegaard was still working for him. Before that it goes back to that Covadonga stage. Just goes to show how efficient he is.
I think that if you win by 6", it counts as dropping everyone.
I‘d say if you attack in the last 300 meters, you‘re going flat out to the line (sprinting) and you‘re not gonna sit up if your attack is followed. Roglič gained those six seconds in that Catalunya stage where he passed Remco a whopping sixty meters from the line. If that‘s not a sprint distance, I don‘t know what is.
IIRC, that's what happened on Tre Cime. Attack, pause, and then a sprint. All in the last ~300 m.
Thomas attacks around 400+ meters and even has Roglič on a gap until 50 m when he blows past him. I don‘t think he sat up in that period.
He wanted to attack earlier but Evenepoel chopped him about 3 different ways
Hard to gauge Thomas's pace, but it seems to me that he goes twice.
That's a sprint...in spite of the slobbering commentators writing him off at the moment he jumps past.
It's literally the clearest difference between the way Roglic likes to attack vs the Roglstomp at the finish.
Think he did a normal attack/respond to attack spike then paced himself for a minute to leave enough to Stomp at the finish. It's not efficient at all, but I'm pretty sure if he just goes full gas on an attack he blows himself up cause in a way he's too explosive for his own good.
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