- Sep 12, 2022
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What happens when you once was one of the best, but now struggling physically to keep up.
Motivation decreases.
He has kids to take care of and spend time with. It is a struggle to be away.
Great career.
Hope he can finish it on a good note.
Motivation decreases.
He has kids to take care of and spend time with. It is a struggle to be away.
Great career.
Hope he can finish it on a good note.
- Jul 31, 2024
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To be fair, he is racing 2 more GC's before taking his break, and once spring is gone, and summer comes there isn't much to do for him. Suisse & Dauphiné whilst big one week races in their own right are also mostly prep races for the Tour.
I doubt he cares about Pologne, Deutschland, Belgium Tour, .. . and it might not be the best prep to include any of those for the vuelta. Remco might feel motivation for them, but roglic? I doubt it. San Sebastian could be the one bigger race that could be an option imo. So by skipping the summer he is basically skipping San Sebastian. That's about it.
I doubt he cares about Pologne, Deutschland, Belgium Tour, .. . and it might not be the best prep to include any of those for the vuelta. Remco might feel motivation for them, but roglic? I doubt it. San Sebastian could be the one bigger race that could be an option imo. So by skipping the summer he is basically skipping San Sebastian. That's about it.
- Apr 8, 2023
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Roglic out of contract after this year, so looks like he's seen the writing on the wall.
- Jul 31, 2024
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- Feb 20, 2012
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He said at the start of the season he wasn't thinking about retirement much, but that can ofcourse be the usual Roglic smokescreen.
To me it appears he does really enjoy racing, but he struggles with the training and especially extended periods away from his family. His coach (last year, I don't know if he retired) said he needed the altitude camps mostly because he could focus on training better.
Outside of that, you don't know if there's lingering injury issues, but I think if you want to manage Roglic in his final contract year and the main goal is the Vuelta, letting him minmax the spring a little bit and have him being the dual leader in races like Tirreno and Itzulia isn't a bad idea.
To me it appears he does really enjoy racing, but he struggles with the training and especially extended periods away from his family. His coach (last year, I don't know if he retired) said he needed the altitude camps mostly because he could focus on training better.
Outside of that, you don't know if there's lingering injury issues, but I think if you want to manage Roglic in his final contract year and the main goal is the Vuelta, letting him minmax the spring a little bit and have him being the dual leader in races like Tirreno and Itzulia isn't a bad idea.
I think he should retire after this season.
One last try at the vuelta with good form and then end this great career.
Im a big fan but I dont want to see him decline slowly.
Better end with a great race like contador 2017. I think it was the perfect ending.
One last try at the vuelta with good form and then end this great career.
Im a big fan but I dont want to see him decline slowly.
Better end with a great race like contador 2017. I think it was the perfect ending.
- Feb 20, 2012
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One last 12 second pull for Pogacar before waving goodbye
There's no 'should' unless racing no longer makes him happy.
If he transitions to a slightly lighter schedule but can still do a good Vuelta and if that makes him happy to do that he should by all means continue if there are teams around that want to pay him for that.
I think fans get too hung up on athletes retiring on top
- Aug 3, 2015
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Expected him to be better on this route with his schedule. He has to do what, 3 WT stages races into the Vuelta, so there's no reason not to be very close to 100% right now
- Jul 30, 2011
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- Feb 20, 2012
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I don't see why I shouldn't. Although the same principle would work quite differently in music.
- Jul 30, 2011
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How so? In either case one can do what they enjoy without “sponsorship” and spectacle. But maybe I don’t know your point.
Yes but also S Yates literally won the Giro last year against two of the young guns, Del Toro and Pellizzari. And Roglic’s numbers have risen over the years along with the peloton’s. With the exception of Pogacar and Vingegaard, it is not a matter of other riders having surpassed him but a matter of his form not having been there consistently since 2023.
2024 he started slowly, got a win, looked very strong before crashing in Catalunya with Vinge and Remco, had some nice moments in the Tour (and some bad ones), and looked very good in the Vuelta. Already some signs of inconsistency (even in winning the Dauphine), though potentially due to new team, prep mistakes, crashes, etc.
2025 he started slowly in Algarve, then smashed Catalunya and everything after that was basically ruined by the Giro crash. Even then, he was stronger than the rider many call the new number 3 GC rider (Lipowitz) on multiple occasions. Lipowitz did not put up performances that exceeded anything Rog had done.
2026 started a little slowly like previous two years. But again, he did not put up 2024 Vuelta numbers and get smoked; he performed like a guy shaking the rust off.
At some point he is bound to decline significantly, and that might be the case now. Maybe the Giro crash, Tour, Remco joining and preventing him from riding the Tour, ending that dream, time away from his kids, seeing Hamnet, all conspired to tilt him away from that 100% edge required to be at the top of the sport. Or maybe he is just easing into the year. Too early to tell, IMO.
- Mar 15, 2022
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People are sending him to retirement, talking about decline and blah blah blah... meanwhile Rogla:
View: https://x.com/i/status/2033168588002013604
View: https://x.com/i/status/2033168588002013604
- Jul 30, 2011
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- Feb 20, 2012
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Literally inquiring with Alaphilippe what it's like to ride around, be completely washed and make the fun meme attacks every race.
- Nov 16, 2013
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Yesterday, they filmed him while peeing and his penis was clearly shown (they even showed it again in slowmotion). Was that because of all the controversy during the Winter Olympics with ski jumpers and penis enlargement medication, making his an item of increased scrutiny?
- Nov 16, 2013
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It was quite funny; just as you thought the commentators would just let it pass in silence, Jesper Worre said: "Well, it's not like this (transmission) is for children"
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- Apr 13, 2021
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- Apr 13, 2021
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He should 100% be doing fleche this spring and Suisse in the summer. After romandie he can train at home for Suisse for 6 weeks. He's scammed bora completely with this semi-retirement
- Jul 31, 2024
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He's won dauphine, catalunya and vuelta. that's better than any other rider gotten them
Except maybe for Sagan, even Hindley has been less succesful for them.
Except maybe for Sagan, even Hindley has been less succesful for them.
- Sep 26, 2020
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He doesn't ride for BORA, although they may sometimes appear to be working for him.
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