- Jul 7, 2013
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This is Pogacar's weather and (judging by Covadonga) Primoz maybe likes it as well. Yeah, some monster ride by Primoz on Friday is definitely possible, the weather won't be nice at all.
This is Pogacar's weather and (judging by Covadonga) Primoz maybe likes it as well. Yeah, some monster ride by Primoz on Friday is definitely possible, the weather won't be nice at all.
- Jul 16, 2015
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I tend to believe bad weather favors the strongest riders. It's like an extra differentiator between the best & the rest.
I've seen Rog do badly in the wet & cold (Formigal 2020 Vuelta, Paris-Nice 2022), but as you said there's also Covadonga Vuelta 2021 where he smashed it in the rain.
He seems happy in this Giro so I lean towards the latter (aka he feels good so the conditions won't impact him as much as the rest).
Unable to watch today but did see a replay of the crash. It looked like he almost fell at the same time as Covi. Any intel on what happened? And does he seem Ok?
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When his crash happened, he was on his feet immediately. The main impact was where his shorts were torn, close to the hip. Who knows whether it will have an effect? It looked maybe not too bad.
- Jul 16, 2015
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It looks a bit like road rash to me, i.e. he wasn't exactly bleeding from it. I think it's from the slide more than the impact & he smiled a little as well so... he's tough in any case.
I've seen bad Rogla falls (including in the 2019 Giro) & unless there's some hidden damage it didn't look too bad. He was pedalling fine afterwards as well.
Fingers crossed but he's surviving so far.
Well, "good" thing in todays crash is he landed on the left shoulder, i.e. not the one he had operation on during the off season.
- Feb 20, 2012
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Someone should've told Rog what "getting your meat out" actually does mean in English.
- Aug 13, 2011
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I believe that’s “whipping your meat out” as the young kids say.
So before the hardest stages of week two even started all remaining teams now more or less left with one leader for overall. Rather bad racing conditions contributing to such outcome substantially. Considering Rogla crashed today on stage 11. The injuries hopefully won't affect him that much. His team still in full numbers is another plus. Tomorrow maybe some teams will try to test him a bit. The day after tomorrow Rogla might decide to test other teams a bit.
But plan A now likely being to stay healthy. As whoever manages to do that has a really good chance in winning this Giro edition.
But plan A now likely being to stay healthy. As whoever manages to do that has a really good chance in winning this Giro edition.
- Jul 16, 2015
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It's about survival, that's all. The last survivor among the top GC guys will win the Giro.
But Jumbo now have the strongest team among the GC guys IMO. And with regards to Rog's crash, the way he leapt back on the bike (Bouwman is a legendary guardian angel for what it's worth) & had zero problems for the rest of the stage says it all really (along with little joke about losing skin in his interview). It'll take a hell of a lot more than that to stop him. Even mummified TdF 2021 Rogla only cracked at the tail end of a monster 250km full gas stage, so this is a total nothing burger by comparison.
I think everyone was way more shaken by what happened to Tao. That's the sort of nightmare scenario no one can predict & even the crash looked way too innocuous (aka almost insignificant) to cause such huge damage & a DNF. Scary fine line between safety & disaster tbh.
But Jumbo now have the strongest team among the GC guys IMO. And with regards to Rog's crash, the way he leapt back on the bike (Bouwman is a legendary guardian angel for what it's worth) & had zero problems for the rest of the stage says it all really (along with little joke about losing skin in his interview). It'll take a hell of a lot more than that to stop him. Even mummified TdF 2021 Rogla only cracked at the tail end of a monster 250km full gas stage, so this is a total nothing burger by comparison.
I think everyone was way more shaken by what happened to Tao. That's the sort of nightmare scenario no one can predict & even the crash looked way too innocuous (aka almost insignificant) to cause such huge damage & a DNF. Scary fine line between safety & disaster tbh.
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"Roglic has had his share of crashes over the years, I don't think he feels pain like most of us do"
~ Geraint Thomas
~ Geraint Thomas
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I hope he is still ok, those injuries look concerning. Tomorrow is breakaway day but I can see Ineos & UAE pace hard the last climb hoping he feels bad. At this point I think he's just gonna try to survive until 2nd rest day. I would be really surprised if he attacks on Crans Montana except for last 500m.
Yes and he was with Tao after crash and helping. Looks like good guy and good to have him in team.
And Affini then usually bringing him back. So far the team is there for Rogla. And as a GC lead hard to ask for more.
P.S. Compared to some other races where Rogla was abandoned to crash alone.
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And, for the suggestions JV had a team weakened by....Covid before the start; they have managed to minimize needless work. That is assuming Primoz and Sepp aren't laboring with bad issues we don't know about.
Ineos has their work cut out for them.
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Rather relaxed stage 12. Big day ahead tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
- Jul 16, 2015
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Even more relaxed stage 13. Until the rest day the mantra should be "fingers crossed Rog doesn't fall asleep at the handlebars".
Strong team performance though. Nice to see Dennis smiling & riding so strong. That says a lot IMO, i.e. a happy Dennis shows the team spirit is good.
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