{"id":48700,"date":"2022-06-13T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/roglic-it-doesnt-matter-which-of-us-wins-the-tour-de-france\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:08:13","slug":"roglic-it-doesnt-matter-which-of-us-wins-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/roglic-it-doesnt-matter-which-of-us-wins-the-tour-de-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Roglic: It doesn&#8217;t matter which of us wins the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d winning a week-long stage race is nothing new.  In fact, doing so in a team one-two with Jonas Vingegaard is nothing new either, after last year&#8217;s Itzulia.  But whereas last year there was a clear division between the two, Rogli\u010d now has company at the top of the Jumbo-Visma pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the uncertainty surrounding Rogli\u010d&#8217;s condition following his knee injury last month, the main takeaway from the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 isn&#8217;t that the Slovenian is well on track for the Tour &#8211; that much should have been expected anyway.  It&#8217;s that he is not the only rider on his team operating at the level required to win the yellow jersey next month.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest paywall\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The spoils were divided up neatly atop the Plateau de Solaison on Sunday: overall victory for Rogli\u010d, stage victory for Vingegaard, Tour de France favorite status for both.  But there can be only one winner in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;Who&#8217;s the boss?&#8221;  came the first question in Rogli\u010d&#8217;s winner&#8217;s press conference from a French newspaper reporter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;Everyone, huh,&#8221; Rogli\u010d replied in characteristically laconic fashion. &#8220;Everyone can say something, everyone can speak. It&#8217;s like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Asked to narrow it down to &#8216;who&#8217;s the boss on the bike&#8217;, Rogli\u010d would not be budged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;The same.  Everyone has their own part.  Like today, the guys were incredible.  Really big thanks to all of them. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Rogli\u010d has risen to the top of the sport in the colors of Jumbo-Visma and carried the torch as they developed into one of the leading stage racing teams in recent years.  He has won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a three times for the team and came agonisingly close to landing the Tour de France in 2020, but he insists it doesn&#8217;t have to be him who finishes the job in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;The stronger the guys are around me, and the stronger I am myself, then the stronger we are as a team,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cDefinitely at the end I don&#8217;t care who is winning or taking it.  It&#8217;s a team sport.  We try to do the best with what we have. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Rogli\u010d heaped praise on his teammates throughout the press conference.  After some riders expressed doubts over Jumbo-Visma&#8217;s strength earlier in the week, Sunday was an emphatic response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Christophe Laporte and Chris Harper did the early work, Tiesj Benoot and Wout van Aert chipped in over the Col de la Colombi\u00e8re, and Steven Kruijswijk laid such strong foundations on the final climb that when he pulled off, Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard only had one rival for company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cSuper strong team,\u201d Rogli\u010d said.  &#8220;We had everything under control, not just today but the whole week.  I&#8217;m pleased to be a part of it and we can achieve all these successes. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">As well as placing one-two on the stage and the overall, Jumbo-Visma finished the week with two extra stage wins for Wout van Aert, who took home the green jersey.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, they also topped the teams classification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI guess we deserve it,\u201d Rogli\u010d said.  \u201cWe showed really nice racing this week.  We can be confident going into the Tour. But for sure it&#8217;s a different story there.  It has to be the same as here &#8211; doing the best each and every one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">&#8220;We are on the right way.  We did a good job, but we can&#8217;t be satisfied because there&#8217;s still quite some time to go.  We try to keep the level or be even better for the Tour. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">As for Vingegaard, and the decision to grant him the stage win: \u201cHe super deserves it.  He was super strong on the last climb.  Each guy of the team did an incredible job.  It&#8217;s a win for all of us. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Even questions that weren&#8217;t about his team were brought back around to the strength of the team.  Does this send a message to Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates)?  &#8220;We&#8217;re just enjoying our work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There was, however, time for some of the humor that has increasingly slipped into Rogli\u010d&#8217;s dealings with the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He spoke of doing some \u201csmall corrections in France this year\u201d referring to his titles here and at Paris-Nice after losing the yellow jersey in both races &#8211; and of course at the Tour &#8211; in recent years.  He also joked that the Tour is ideal preparation for the Vuelta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Whatever happens next month, Rogli\u010d has further bolstered his palmar\u00e8s which now features a who&#8217;s who of week-long stage races: Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico, Itzulia, the Tour de Romandie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIt&#8217;s crazy,\u201d he said.  &#8220;Beautiful to achieve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest paywall\" data-model-name=\"Cervelo R5, Cervelo Caledonia, Lazer Genesis Road Cycling Helmet, Vision Trimax Carbon 45 wheels, Vittoria Corsa Control TLR tyres,Shimano Dura-Ace R9200 groupset,Lazer Genesis 2020 helmet, Lazer Bullet helmet, Shimano S-Phyre SH-RC902,Garmin Edge 1030, Garmin Edge 530, Garmin Edge 830, Garmin Edge 1030 Plus, Tacx Neo 2T Smart Trainer\" data-rows=\"5\" data-widget-title=\"Ride like Jumbo-Visma with\" data-widget-type=\"multimodelreview\" data-render-type=\"editorial\">\n<div class=\"hawk-multi-model-review-container\">\n<div class=\"hawk-multi-model-review-retail-container\">\n<p>Ride like Jumbo-Visma with<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d winning a week-long stage race is nothing new. In fact, doing so in a team one-two with Jonas Vingegaard is nothing new either, after last year&#8217;s Itzulia. But whereas last year there was a clear division between the two, Rogli\u010d now has company at the top of the Jumbo-Visma pecking order. Despite the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/roglic-it-doesnt-matter-which-of-us-wins-the-tour-de-france\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roglic: It doesn&#8217;t matter which of us wins the Tour de France<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/XdQJHk5nFru2PGBymU8G95-1200-80.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}