Is Roglic past his prime?

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Is Roglic past his prime?


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I thought you'd thank me for consolidating all these posters into one place for you to pacify, educate, and enlighten.

Good point.

And lets not forget Rogla is in a very select group of riders that have beaten Pogi in a GT race, week long stage race, at a monument, at one day race event (and at the nationals). So yeah, prime or no prime, who cares.

Lets rather focus on winning an one day race event i the reminder of the season and all type of races in years to come!
 
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Back in the day we had no rider threads, we only had individual threads for individual topics. It encouraged holistic discussion and discouraged cliques. There was relatively little fanboyism. One day people started making rider threads and it's all been downhill since then

Weirdest thing is, you were around to see that too
weird or disappointing or both. Wait...weird we're still alive and bike fans?
 
So when he actually won the World Championship?
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The crazy thing about Valverde, is that in 2022, as a 42 year old, putting aside the 'Gran Camino' "stuff" and such, he did:

- 2° at Strade Bianche (and 1° was Pogi, so it doesn't really count)
- 2° at Flèche Wallonne
- 4° at Giro dell'Emilia
- 3° at Tre Valli Varesine (again: 1° was Pogi)
- 6° at Lombardia

As a 42 y.o. !!!

Imagine a normal rider, retiring after said results.
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Maybe it's a coincidence.. But 2 riders I absolutely love Robert Gesink and Tony Martin, both finishing with Visma were able to finish their careers with great work on the bike and taking pressure off them as dedicated leaders, expected winners.

It's obvious that Primoz Roglic has a great attitude, guy is always positive, spring in his step, despite some often awful circumstances. I hope that Bora, Remco, Lipowitz can figure out a way to utilize an awesome racer like Roglic. I hope they don't buy into Primoz is a loser because he hasn't been there in grand tours and biggest races. Might be time to transition to different responsibilities.
 
Maybe it's a coincidence.. But 2 riders I absolutely love Robert Gesink and Tony Martin, both finishing with Visma were able to finish their careers with great work on the bike and taking pressure off them as dedicated leaders, expected winners.

It's obvious that Primoz Roglic has a great attitude, guy is always positive, spring in his step, despite some often awful circumstances. I hope that Bora, Remco, Lipowitz can figure out a way to utilize an awesome racer like Roglic. I hope they don't buy into Primoz is a loser because he hasn't been there in grand tours and biggest races. Might be time to transition to different responsibilities.
Hopefully he (rogocop) agrees, because he is 100% past his prime.

Dude is so far past his prime he can't see it in the rear view mirror. He might have lost it on some ride 2-3 years ago, and now it is just off the side of the road, waiting for some unsuspecting passerby.
 
Hopefully he (rogocop) agrees, because he is 100% past his prime.

Dude is so far past his prime he can't see it in the rear view mirror. He might have lost it on some ride 2-3 years ago, and now it is just off the side of the road, waiting for some unsuspecting passerby.
Roglic is a strange phenomenon.. When he is on his bike, fluid, smooth, measured.. and then he just keeps falling off his bike.. The definition of chronic crasher.
If I was advising him, go to weight room, skip all races over 10 days, stop with all the history lessons about being a premier climber and work on getting more top end and punch and spend his last years trying something, anything other than grand tours. He can still win just not 3 week GCs