What are you saying? Did Roglic had mechanical or something to lose 2min in TT?
There was no luck in that win, just out of this world Tadej, who decided to put one of the best performances in history of cycling in that TT.
He also lost minute and a half in echalons, can't really say that helped him, right?
Only luck he had was crash of Roglic due to problems with the bike in Dauphine, what 2 weeks before TDF. How much that really effected the outcome, we will never know.
Of course there was luck involved. UAE could not have known that either Roglič would not have the legs or he was still as injured as he was after Dauphine. Not to belittle Pogačar's performance in any way but Roglič in top form that day would never have lost a minute, let alone as much as he did. Look at all his time trials from that point on - Basque, Vuelta 2021 (and 2020 to an extent), TDF stage 5 and especially the Olympics. It's safe to say Pogačar got lucky Roglič was not having his day....
I said they needed one minute to win and not two. IMHO UAE did feel that is doable. As for two minutes on any future GT race (after 2020). This is what more or less all teams accepted as being the truth. JV stating it publicly. Other teams acknowledging it by saying things like "we need to go back to the drawing boards". To address Pogačar variable.
I know nothing of "all teams accepted as being the truth". TJV stated that publicly, but we will never know how much of that was sandbagging, putting the pressure off etc. Fact is that Primož lost only 45 seconds riding like a zombie on this years TDF and Wout beat Pogačar cinvincingly in the last TT.
As for some cheap psychology. No. I am not a victim on TDF 2020. Obviously i was not happy as Roglič didn't win. But Roglič more than bounced back and that is enough for me. Personally i am happy Roglič now gets to compete against a champion nobody will be able to deny greatness anymore. When beating him on some (GT) races. All in all Roglič now has enough (prestigious) wins to hold his own.
And all in all i detected your "disapproval" in last couple of posts. On like as you don't agree with an opinion of somebody else. And obviously as your opinion is the truth. Well, about that.
It's not cheap psychology - it was a joke, actually. And my "disapproval" goes only as far as you would not listen to anything other people have to say - instead you keep repeating your narrative until everyone gets tired of rejecting it. You tend to ignore the points/evidence and just repeat your original claims before the evidence/points were presented to you. So now I fully expect you will once again say how it was all a plan A for UAE, how they thought they had two minutes on Roglič in TT, one minute confortably etc., etc. I presented two points of evidence in my post - you did not address either of them but instead, butchered my statement there was luck involved into "it was a pure luck" and repeated your stance once again.