Teams & Riders Everybody needs a little bit of Roglstomp in their lives

[Lequack]

Nibali probably thinks Roglic is playing games by not going to the Tour with him.

If he goes to the Vuelta there is actually a bit more timetrialing that in the Tour this year, but the climbs will definitely not suit him, the Tour has pretty regular climbs of up to 10%, meanwhile in Vuelta this year, stage 7 MTF:

Stage 13 MTF:

 

[Red Rick]

Think the duration of a climb is a bigger issue. Roglic is a beast on short and steep climbs.

 

[topcat]

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Nibali probably thinks Roglic is playing games by not going to the Tour with him.

If he goes to the Vuelta there is actually a bit more timetrialing that in the Tour this year, but the climbs will definitely not suit him, the Tour has pretty regular climbs of up to 10%, meanwhile in Vuelta this year, stage 7 MTF:

Stage 13 MTF:

Nibali will have Fuglsang instead of Roglic. And the bird will do the chasing.

 

[Lequack]

He's now officially also a dad

 

[Lequack]

Looking at PCS he doesn't seem to be on the longlist for the Vuelta so far:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-a-espana/2019/gc/startlist

 

[Carols]

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Looking at PCS he doesn't seem to be on the longlist for the Vuelta so far:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-a-espana/2019/gc/startlist

WOW!!!

 

[Red Rick]

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Looking at PCS he doesn't seem to be on the longlist for the Vuelta so far:
https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/vuelta-a-espana/2019/gc/startlist

WOW!!!

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess they've been lazy with updating the long list since Roglic was removed from the Tour list?

 

[HelloDolly]

Maybe he s not going to the Vuelta

Maybe he is building for the Worlds another way ...so he is not too tired as he was at end of Giro..when he rides in Yorkshire

 

[Lequack]

I don't really think the one day races suit him, at least they haven't so far.

 

[KZD]

I would be disappointed if he doesn't ride the Vuelta.
He never took part and having ridden the Giro rather than the Tour he has more time to prepare it. Even if he doesn't go for GC he could try to win a stage while preparing for the Worlds

 

[Lequack]

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He's now officially also a dad

PS: It's a boy, no name yet.

 

[Lequack]

After a bit of rest he's riding the National road race on Sunday, along with Mohoric (Bahrain) and Polanca and Pogacar (UAE). The road race is about 150km with some 3500m of climbing.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Roglič hinted La Vuelta is on the radar for this year.

 

[Lequack]

Good news, he has confirmed (unofficially) after the National Championships that he's probably going to the Vuelta as a GC contender. Most likely alongside Kruijswik and Gesink, if he has recovered from the crash.

Bonuc pic from today's National Championships road race:

 

[Lequack]

Apparently Primoz and Jumbo have verbally and non-officially agreed to extend until 2023.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

And Jumbo are upping their budget as well, because they are set on signing Dumoulin. Gonna be crowded there in GC captain land.

 

[yaco]

And they are in the running to get Kittel - I wonder how they fitting all this into their budget.

 

[Lequack]

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And they are in the running to get Kittel - I wonder how they fitting all this into their budget.

I am guessing Kittel can't really put a big dent in the budge at this moment.

 

[Lequack]

Seems like quite a lot of posts got lost with the new upgrade. There was a debate about Roglic maybe not going to the Vuelta?

 

[Red Rick]

Seems like quite a lot of posts got lost with the new upgrade. There was a debate about Roglic maybe not going to the Vuelta?

I googled and the last article had a quote from Richard Plugge, the team boss that Roglic, Bennett and Kruijswijk were all going to the Vuelta.

It really seems like it's just a mistake due to the team site not being updated.

 

[Lequack]

Some guy stalked him training at altitude

https://twitter.com/x/status/1159219128336625664

View: https://twitter.com/PastorMogensen/status/1159219128336625664

 

[wirral]

Jumbo Visma site is updated today. Maybe 'cos of Rob Hatch announcing yesterday on live tv it was confirmed that Roglic would not be riding the Vuelta. Does that count as a Rabofail?

 

[hq87]

According to the updated JumboVisma site looks like he'll be doing Vuelta, World's TT and RR and Lombardia.

 

[Lequack]

Well he's in an interesting predicament now with Tom Dumoulin coming to the team. Two Dutch GC riders in a Dutch team, I'm hoping he doesn't become the next George Bennet, being sidelined.
We can see it with Ineos they have such talent that they basically compete with one another. Geraint would have won this year if not for Bernal, etc. And what's worse is even though Geraint probably wanted to win jsut as much as Bernal, he "needs" to be happy about it because it's team Ineos win.

 

[KZD]

I don't think Roglic will be the new Bennett. He already showed more in GT's than Bennett with the 4th place in the 2018 Tour and 3rd in the 2019 Giro plus he is one of the best if not the best, one week stage racer in the peloton.
However I don't know if he will race the Tour next year, if Jumbo wants to have two riders that are able to win the Tour he should go, if not maybe Giro-Olympics-Vuelta-Worlds could be a better option.