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Well, since they have been on the same team before this season, they hardly raced against each-other. So basically time trials would be the only fair comparison. And Roglič did beat Vinge in the Vuelta TT last year. And they have only raced three and a half stages AGAINST eachother this year...

I don't get what people expect Roglič to do. He has never been a rider who attacks 10km out, gets separation and rides to the line alone. This is what Vinge and Pogi do. Roglič plays to his strenghts. Of course, yesterday he could have attacked (and got a decent gap), because he was clearly the...

Roglič was good today, he got his kick back after the lack of it in Paris-Nice, but Bora tactics (and general team form) were definitely not okay. If you plan on going for the stage you don't let a breakaway like this get 5 minutes. And most of the team, except Vlasov and Haller, were basically...

Thankfully it has been scientifically proven that alcohol can cause incoherent thoughts and clouded judgement

Without the crash he would definitelly race. But with a sore knee (we all know how things went when he raced Itzulia 2022 with an injured knee) the risk is a lot higher. On the other hand I think that with top-form Vinge out of the picture and Pogačar doing the Giro, the team and Roglič...

Last year the gap between the top 6 teams was 25 seconds. And the TTT was 6km longer (although a bit less hilly). So I am not expecting more than 30 seconds between the top GC teams (UAE, Quickstep, Ineos, Bora, Visma). Based on this years TTs UAE with this lineup should be the favourites...

"Right moment" is when both Remco and Roglič are in a group together and they have dropped either Vingegaard or Pogačar. In this case Roglič works. None of them are in this race, so unless another rider proves to be stronger than both of them, well... no working together with your biggest rival...

I think it was meant to be a representation that people tend to undervalue Roglič's achievements. As in - Pog was 2nd at the Tour and hypothetically Rog wins Giro-Vuelta - people have a hard time deciding who would have a better season. But if it was the other way around, people would proclaim...

Roglič simply knows his strenghts and weaknesess and races accordingly. He knows he has a good kick to the line but on the other hand he cannot keep a gap and extend it the way Vinge does on a MTF. That is why we very rarely see him attack from far out - the only one that comes to mind is Paris...

You never know. Cycling is a very unpredictable sport where a lot of things can happen. Look at Evans. He had 2 great chances to win in 2007 and 2008. He finished second both times. Then in 2009 he was really bad, in 2010 he crashed out, there were the supposedly unbeatable aliens Contador and...

So, yesterday stage 4 of Tour of Slovenia went over Katarina climb at the begining of the stage. One of the climbs Roglič trains on often. He also held the Strava KOM of 9:52 from 2019. During the stage yesterday the break was getting formed at that point and the pack basically sprinted up that...

The only way Roglič does the Tour is if the same thing that happened to Kruijswijk happens to Jonas.

True. Roglič wanted to do a GT with full support. So he opted for the Giro. In retrospect he made the right choice, since a full backing of the team was more likely than not the difference between winning and coming second. The team really helped him avoid time losses in week 1 and then Kuss was...

Roglič really has some insane stage race results since he really started going for GC in 2018. Since Tour of Britain the only race he lost without crashing or being sick was Tour 2020. Other than that he wins as long as he avoids getting injured. The problem is he crashes far too often...

One could almost say Roglič hasn't lost a stage race where he was crash or injury free since 2020! Or, if we stretch it a bit and say he was still feeling the effects of the Dauphine crash in 2020 TdF... then the streak goes back to Tour of Britain 2018. o_O But I guess Tour 2020 is a"fair...