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[Armchair Cyclist]

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Primoz Roglic on Instagram: "Time flies☝️ Still one of the best memories @tokyo2020 🙏 It's today I will pass over the Olympic title, it's been an honour and I wish good luck to all the cyclists and all athletes performing at @paris2024. Go get your d

82K likes, 257 comments - primozroglic on July 27, 2024: "Time flies☝️ Still one of the best memories @tokyo2020 🙏 It's today I will pass over the Olympic title, it's been an honour and I wish good luck to all the cyclists and all athletes performing at @paris2024. Go get your dreams!! 📸 @sta...

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Note that in road cycling such medals hold little to no value.

Hmmmmm

 

[IndurainsTdF1994]

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Hmmmmm

No lies detected. One can have nice memories of events that might not matter so much.

Nice win by Remco.

 

[Gargamel35]

Is there any news at all?

 

[acm]

Nope Vlasov is alone in altitude training, no Rogla...

 

[Tim Cahill]

Rog

 

[acm]

Wut? Oh please, let it be true

 

[Lequack]

Rogla, Lipowitz, Hindley and Martinez. Strong team.

 

[tobydawq]

I would expect very stiff competition from Fabio Jakobsen

Lol, that almost (but not quite) beats when Mareczko was selected for Il Lombardia.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I would expect very stiff competition from Fabio Jakobsen

Yeah, Rogla vs Jacobsen in a sprint is a wet dream of every forum user. Hopefully nobody dies.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Rogla wouldn't trade his Olympic gold medal for a Tour title.

 

[dazaau]

Rogla wouldn't trade his Olympic gold medal for a Tour title.

I don't know him personally, so can't know for sure. But that to me would be a total no brainer.

What's missing from his palmares? The Tour. No one says "he won all the grand tours and all the major one week stage races, too bad he didn't win an Olympic gold medal."

 

[Carols]

Rogla wouldn't trade his Olympic gold medal for a Tour title.

He came from a sport where an Olympic Gold was the Highest ranking on your achievements.
Personally, I think OL Gold ranks even with any road race win; Worlds etc.

 

[Carols]

I don't know him personally, so can't know for sure. But that to me would be a total no brainer.

What's missing from his palmares? The Tour. No one says "he won all the grand tours and all the major one week stage races, too bad he didn't win an Olympic gold medal."

You have a point!
But the guys that have won one are very happy wearing Gold on their kit for 4 years.

 

[svit]

For me gold Ol medal is much much more valuable than world title. You can win world title every year, Ol is every 4 years. That fact alone ranks Ol higher. I will put gold medal in the same category as one tour win.

I know that right now the Ol medals are less valuable than even the monuments but i do think in the next few years the Ol race will become much more desired challenge

Just look how happy Djokovic was, when he finally won Ol tournament.

 

[Peter von]

I think athletes at this level are extremely good at celebrating the wins they do get and focusing on future goals and not alternative scenarios.

So I don’t think Rogla would give up a gold medal that He earned and won on the day for a TdF title won on paper. His career isn’t over and he can still have some great wins up his sleeves, but he has good reason to be very proud of everything he achieved already.

But I also think in that in 2017 he would have picked the Tour over Olympic gold.

 

[bNator]

Rogla wouldn't trade his Olympic gold medal for a Tour title.

Sure he wouldn't. He doesn't care about the Tour. Here are some photos to back it up:

Imagine how devastated he would be if he lost I don't know... the olympic games road race. He would be utterly inconsolable. Oh, wait... Here's the photo. Devastated!

 

[bNator]

"Would trade x for y" is a dumb question. Better question is "if you could choose 1 win in the next year" and it's extremely likely he'd simply choose the Tour de France.

Let's just say it's 100% likely and be done with it Unless Abi can conjure up some ciciban race he feels is more important than the tour just to stir the pot a little...

 

[svit]

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"Stop it Primoz all bad things are over..."

 

[Mako]

These "would x trade z for z" discussions are so utterly bewildering, it's ridiculous.

I mean how would it even work.

Things are what they are.

I haven't yet given up on Primoz winning the TdF. Clearly the stars would need to align, but eventually all that bad luck must turn around, eh. Another Vuelta would also be nice (and yes, the minor worth of the Vuelta compared to the other Grand Tours is clear to me, as it is to everyone. But still a Grand Tour)

 

[bNator]

The purpose of “would trade / wouldn’t trade” discussions is only one: to hint that Olympics (which Rogla won) are somehow more important all of a sudden than the Tour (which Rogla didn’t win). So if Roglic never wins the Tour (which seems ever more likely) he still achieved his most important goal, which is - you guessed it - the olympics. It’s a coping mechanism if I ever saw one.
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[James M]

Let's just say it's 100% likely and be done with it Unless Abi can conjure up some ciciban race he feels is more important than the tour just to stir the pot a little...

The purpose of “would trade / wouldn’t trade” discussions is only one: to hint that Olympics (which Rogla won) are somehow more important all of a sudden than the Tour (which Rogla didn’t win). So if Roglic never wins the Tour (which seems ever more likely) he still achieved his most important goal, which is - you guessed it - the olympics. It’s a coping mechanism if I ever saw one.


You should know everyone else knows you have zero things to say with posts like that. Not one slightest argument at all…

Noone says that? Roglic would do anything for a Tour win, and OL and far down the list even. like people need to stop making up stuff and this one takes the cake literally

 

[Mako]

Everyone knows TdF > Olympics. And even there RR>TT
But you gotta live with the hand your dealt with. No "shoulda woulda"

 

[bNator]

Noone says that? Roglic would do anything for a Tour win, and OL and far down the list even. like people need to stop making up stuff and this one takes the cake literally

Read yesterday’s posts.

 

[James M]

Read yesterday’s posts.

Ill think I pass if anyone actually said that I think its sufficient like you said coping mechanism if that's the case

Everyone knows TdF > Olympics. And even there RR>TT
But you gotta live with the hand your dealt with. No "shoulda woulda"

Yes sir. I'm here hoping for Vuelta for Roglic and that he can get some consolation price to go out with the respect he deserves.

 

[topcat]

So some people think Remco's double was greater than Pog's double whereas the majority are on the fence about the question. Do you have to smoke dope to post in this thread?