I did, the team fell apart repeatedly leaving Roglic to do it himself. On top of his bad stage having no one that helped them though had the luck of the stage finishing on a descent. Did you watch the race with the same eyes you used during 2022 Vuelta stage 17?
you're just flat out wrong though. the team fell apart once, on stage 20, because half the team got food poisoning. they still ended up with more riders than any other team in the selection on the penultimate climb, with a super ride from Roger Adria especially. what other stage did they fall apart on? on the only other mountain stage that they didn't dominate, stage 9, Roglic was in a group of 7 GC riders and
still had a teammate with him the entire time, which nobody else had. everyone who attacked on that stage lost big time on the descent and final run in. on what stage did Roglic have to do anything but attack the last climb by himself? did you make this up in your own head?
here, since you clearly didn't watch the race i'll fill you in on what happened:
Stage 8: Martinez set a huge pace at the bottom of the final climb and split the group (with the help of a crash admittedly), Roglic then attacked repeatedly and won the stage. what else could they have done there?
Stage 11: Denz, Gamper and Martinez went into the breakaway, the first two fell back to help set a huge tempo on the final climb, in which Vlasov and Roglic dropped everyone with their own pace except for Mas. Roglic attacked, caught Martinez on the descent, who paced the group to help gain more time on the leader.
Stage 13: i mean, cmon. perfection.
Stage 15: Lipowitz dragged Roglic off the front of the GC group at the beginning of the steep part, but Roglic didn't have the legs to finish it off.
Stage 19: see stage 13
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