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[benzwire]

Roglic's positioning has not been good today. He's been behind several splits and has luckily not been completely dropped. If he gets through this on same time he may actually benefit from the top 3 spending so much energy today. Hopefully the long game will pay off for him

 

[skippo12]

Roglic's positioning has not been good today. He's been behind several splits and has luckily not been completely dropped. If he gets through this on same time he may actually benefit from the top 3 spending so much energy today. Hopefully the long game will pay off for him

Is he saving energy trying to fight for position and sprinting out of every corner to close gaps?

 

[Gargamel35]

I still don't know if he's the smartest of top guys outthere or the weakest.

 

[Tim Cahill]

That was the most eventful S.T finish of a single rider I think I've ever seen in my life.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

He played with fire all day. Very lucky to have no time loss.

 

[Netserk]

(knocks on wood, fingers crossed)

I should knock on wood more often!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Vingegaard and Pogacar doesn't really rate him AT ALL. I kinda hope it kinda bites them in the butt.

 

[acm]

I'm gonna open a bottle of champagne now. Cheers Rogla, we survived huh...

 

[FroomeWagon]

I still don't know if he's the smartest of top guys outthere or the weakest.

I definitely don't think it was because he was the smartest haha

 

[Red Rick]

I still don't know if he's the smartest of top guys outthere or the weakest.

Dude can't position himself - he likely wasted a lot of energy today.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Perfect long range defense by Rogla today!

 

[Rackham]

Now the real TdF can start. This gravel thing was hanging over him like a Damocles sword since October. It's done. No crashes, no lost time.

Let's hope Vlasov is ok.

 

[benzwire]

He was always behind today and he's lucky he did not lose time. This can go either way at this point, but unless he finds some form in the coming week I think he'll have a huge time loss one of these days. I'm not hoping for that, I want the opposite, but he just seems not to be his normal self so far. Hopefully Vlasov recovers and is ok (crazy crash today) because Rogla doesn't seem to have anyone else around him.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Kinda lucky for him that he hasn't looked hot since a long time, because if he did, he would be 5 minutes down today at least. Probably closer to 10. As I said I hope he's flying because that would teach Jumbo and UAE a lesson.

 

[Oldermanish]

We’re talking about stage 4 of the 2024 Tour de France right? Roglic was getting gapped because he was on his limit, not because he was inattentive.

Roglic looked like he was about to drop from Almeida’s pacing losing the wheels and dropped to the back of the group. Roglic only recovered from the pace letting up while Ayuso was messing around. Roglic stayed at the back the rest of the way. When Pogacar attacked Roglic was at the back, Landa was struggling to hang on and Roglic was struggling to hold Landa’s wheel. Roglic had space to respond on the left or right if he had the gas. We are then shown a very brief glimpse of Roglic struggling and a bike length or more gap to Almeida’s wheel who is in a group of 4 (C Rod 1st, Ayuso 2nd, Landa 3rd, and Almeida 4th). Who are then shown the group of 4 coming up to the top with Roglic still having a gap to them and just caught Landa’s wheel at the top. Roglic then stays second wheel behind C Rod on the descent until C Rod rides off and Roglic starts pulling. During that Roglic had a recovery from the effort and could assist with pulls when Roglic, Ayuso, C Rod, Evenepoel, and Vingegaard all come together.

Evenepoel caught up to Vingegaard, C Rod, Ayuso, and Roglic by himself. Landa was even further behind with Almeida.

View: https://youtu.be/dxwLdv_oAWY?si=HsNoP_cKVrQTVHgh


Leading up to Pogacar attack 15:08
Roglic with a gap to the group of 4 15:4
Top of the climb 17:46



Roglic looked better in the TT and can definitely get to a better level, but he didn’t lose time on stage 2 and 4 due to his positioning or inattentiveness.

My mistake on the stage number; I was initially referring to the earlier stage where Pogacar towed Jonas to the line. That was the reference to being inattentive.

The Galibier stage was where he lagged to the back because he was at limit. He managed not to completely blow which was what he should have done.

 

[Froome]

Perfect long range defense by Rogla today!

@CyclistAbi was right all along!

 

[Le Grand Doop]

if rog ends up podiuming it's because of his defense this first week.

 

[Oldermanish]

if rog ends up podiuming it's because of his defense this first week.

He still needs to get his head in the game better. He keeps exposing himself to added work when he's been attacked in obvious places. He's played defense all the way to 1:36 down even with a great TT.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I have a hard time to see him in the top5.

 

[ppanther92]

Maybe, with no one taking him serious (me included), he does a reverse 2020. Who knows...

 

[noob]

The way he saved himself today was amazing though

 

[Red Rick]

I have a hard time to see him in the top5.

Let me help you out

Rnk	Prev	▼▲	Rider	Team	UCI		Time
1	1	-	POGAČAR Tadej	UAE Team Emirates	25	18″	35:42:42
2	2	-	EVENEPOEL Remco	Soudal Quick-Step		8″	0:33
3	3	-	VINGEGAARD Jonas	Team Visma | Lease a Bike		5″	1:15
4	4	-	ROGLIČ Primož	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe			1:36

 

[SHAD0W93]

Luck merchant

 

[svit]

Yes. He was hanging for dear life and only threeway shenanigans between Remco, Pog an Vinge saved him sheding some serious time, again.

Doesn't look good. He also lost Vlasov (he crashed and continue but i don't think he will be contributing in the mountains).

He is constantly the worst of the big 4.

 

[Rackham]

Yes. He was hanging for dear life and only threeway shenanigans between Remco, Pog an Vinge saved him sheding some serious time, again.

Doesn't look good. He also lost Vlasov (he crashed and continue but i don't think he will be contributing in the mountains).

He is constantly the worst of the big 4.

I'll file this stage 9 in the "who gives a sh*t" locker & then completely forget it ever happened.

It was such an atypical profile & had no place in the Tour. Cobbles were 10x better than this gravel nonsense.

The only reason Rog even became a focal point in the stage is because the race organisers, TV crews & commentators (on whatever channel) were fishing for drama & were hoping he'd get dropped because A/he's not a specialist & B/his team is weaker. The entire packaged & delivered excitement for fans was based on "let's see what sh*tty thing happens to one of the favorites!". Eurosport's commentators were totally feasting on that scenario as well aka Rob Hatch with his signature "keep an eye on this!" foreshadowing of imminent disaster for one of the top riders.

In the end Rog was pretty much always with Carlos Rodriguez & Ineos, other than during the little crisis 120km from the finish when he put a fire out himself. The rest of the time there was always the likelihood the group he was in would ride down the attackers (like Evenepoel, Pog or Vingegaard in the unlikely event he got adventurous - which he predictably didn't).