After his abandonment on the last Italian Tourit's a Primoz Roglic (Red-Bull Bora-Hansgrohe) without benchmarks which is initially Tour de France. Alongside Florian Lipwoitzthe Slovenian will try to get on the box in Paris, after having, it seems, understood that it was now impossible to win. At a press conference, the quadruple winner of The return did not really put the pressure at the dawn of his 7th Large loop.
Video – The Primoz Roglic press conference
“Always happy to be at the start”
Asked about the place and the role he will have to play alongside cycling behemoths, Primoz Roglic gave a confusing response, and tackles this Tour de France : “I don't really need to designate my rivals. Obviously, given the way in which Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel run … But we also have strong guys with Florian Lipowitz who finished 3rd in the Dauphiné, so we also target the podium on the Tour de France. I have to run, focus on me and give the best of my person. Maybe I can still do something big, in any case it is a privilege to run with them, to rub shoulders with young runners so strong. For my part, I don't have much to do, at 36, win it or not to earn it, I will not play my life anymore. “
Why I'm here, I am always happy to be able to be at the start of the Tour de France, to take part in the greatest event of cycling. I have known these kinds of problems, but the important thing is above all the way in which these situations are managed later, knowing how to learn from it. You can't taste the flavor of good things without knowing the difficulties. After the giro I was under antibiotics, I worked hard to get up and I am there. Besides, I have nothing to prove to anyone, we will do the accounts at the end“.
Also questioned about the course and more particularly his first week, the Slovenian explained wanting “survive”: “Yes, it is probably preferable to survive in the first week. This is probably a good example of what happened last year in France. So, yes, you have to go to the end.
