Primoz Roglić targeting Giro title with the door opened by Tadej Pogacar absence
Primoz Roglic hunts his sixth Grand Tour Triumph at this year’s Giro d’Italia and will have the opportunity to install the title from the Tade of Pogacar with his super-conserved compatriot.
Despite being one of the best road cyclists of its generation, Roglic was in the shadow of everything conquest Pogacar He opened him beat him his colleagues Slovenian on 2020 tours of the de France in the fashion for the keys in the hose.
But a 35-year-old is a strong choice for the pink jersey to ask for the second time as a great tour expert, supported by a powerful Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team, which included 2022 winners Jai Hindley and last year’s runner Dani Martinez.
“The goal is just to achieve my best form. The results will be what will be,” Roglić said his season in February.
“I don’t know how fast everyone else will be the best boy, but watching yourself, what can I strive for is to try to build in the best primose that there was … I still still feel 20.”
Roglić also lets Giro and tour this year, with someone else’s thorns aside after he left the chance to live in the pre-tension five years ago.
He looked at Fine wandered when he won in March in Catalonia’s tour in March, piping the house Juan Ayuso In the final stage in Barcelona.
Mountain Challenge
Ayuso will be one of Roglić’s key rivals on Giro, a young teammate Spain – and Pogacar in UAE – Already a winner in Italy this season with success of the week a long price tirneo-adriatic.
But the challenge waiting for how to start the giro in Friday on Friday, it will be far harder than anything that they experienced this season.
A total of this year’s Giro contain 52,200 meters of climbing, over 10,000 m above from 2024. years, over 3,413 kilometers from riding towards Rome, where the final phase will honor the late Pope Francis unseen through the Vatican.
Riders will deviate in Albania, where in October, they became a controversial Gent for migrant processing, after a severe third phase that starts and ends in Vlore, before riding snakes in the depth south.
Almost all this year’s 10km climbing comes in two phases before climating in Rome, with pierced phases of 19 rider testing with three categories one climbed in 166 km between Biella and Champiluc.
Suncultiva phase 20 is a scene of the highest collection of Finistra climbing that contains 8km of pebble roads, before Peloton reaches Šestire near the Alpine border of Italy with France.
The strong snow last month caused the concern that Colle Delle Finistrion had had to be removed from the race, but the roads are cleaned and works on the rider that will reach the brutal final week.