@bNator
So you instead assume Primož was not injured severely at the Tour. Did have an optimal Vuelta preparation. They are hence bluffing?
Is that what you are suggesting? As some people in this thread seem to suggest that. And i don't know on what ground they base their claims on.
Yes - that's exactly what I am assuming. Noone can even sit on his bike let alone ride with best cyclists of the world up on the good old Alpe d'Huez after being "severely injured". Noone can then resume and attend another GT a little bit more than a month after he was "severly injured".
So the only possible conclusion here is that Roglič was not "severely injured". He was injured. Apparently not enough to stop him continuing TDF for a couple of more stages and it looks like not enough to stop him attending the Vuelta.
Is he at 100%? Who knows. I don't think so, but he could be at 98% and that could prove to be enough.
Now you can twist my opinion and opinion of some other posters here all you want but hardly anyone is saying he was bluffing in TDF (though to be fair in stage 11 he was a little bit...) and hardly anyone claims he is at 100% and that his preparation for Vuelta was optimal. But guess what - that's no reason for him to sit at home and feel sorry for himself which is what you seem to be
suggesting he should do...
He is likely still injured and had a sub-optimal Vuelta preparation. That is my aim. To establish that as a fact. And not that other BS some are spreading around.
We can establish that post festum. If he has a disappointing Vuelta performance then there will be two possible reasons:
- There are still traces of injury and he was sub-optimal prepared.
- He is on a irreversible demise either due to accumulated effects of injuries or age.
We will have to wait a bit more to get a clearer picture.
Of course in the meantime trolls in this chat will be having the time of their lives but I don't think that can be avoided simply by estyabslishing facts at this point - especially not based on fiction (doctors were against it, etc...)