2023-10-06 11:29:09
Primoz Roglic stays in the kitchen of cycling. From promoting to Jumboone of the most important supermarket chains in the Netherlands, will start ‘selling’ extractors, which are manufactured by the German brand Boraone of the most expensive and innovative, those that aspire downwards, although with the aim of turning their new squad, until now led mainly by the Australian rider Jai Hindley, winner of the 2022 Giro, into one of the most leading in the cycling universe .
Thus, he closes a stage with Jumbo that began in 2016 as the precursor and architect of the first team in history to win the big three in the same year and to give way, above all, to Jonas Vingegaard. A relationship that seemed to be one of love and dedication towards the Dutch team, but that decided to put an end to it on the night of September 13 in a hotel in Oviedo, when he admitted out of discipline towards his team to respect the leadership of Sepp Kuss and allow his gregarious win the Vuelta with still two stages with enough terrain to turn the test upside down.
Objective not met
Roglic He never said an extra word, neither after handing the Spanish round on a platter to his American assistant, nor before, in July, when Vingegaard announced that he was going to ride a Vuelta that Roglic had been thoroughly preparing since he won the Giro in May. For the Vuelta he had sacrificed his presence in the Tour (although he would have participated as a second bet for the Jumbo after Vingegaard) with the aim of winning in 2023 all the stage races in which it had participated: Tirreno-Adriatico, Volta, Giro and Burgos, which also exists.
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— BORA – hansgrohe (@BORAhansgrohe) October 6, 2023
With three wins in the Spanish round and one in the Italian round, Roglic wants to win the Tour, which he lost on the penultimate day of 2020 to his compatriot Tadej Pogacar. The idea of leaving the Jumbo was woven while he listened to the siren songs of other squads in the Vuelta, who sensed the victory of kissand knowing that if the American failed, the Vingegaard candidacy.
As if that were not enough, while he had already decided to leave the team, while it was made public that the Dutch supermarket chain wanted to leave cycling as quickly as possible with the advertising objectives covered, the Soudal decision. The Remco Evenepoel team wanted to sponsor Jumbo, which, contrary to what was spread by various websites, is not the formation of a macro dream team, but the disappearance of one, with cyclists and auxiliaries on the street, due to a change of strategy of the Belgian brand of industrial glues to take over from the supermarket in the Netherlands.
Nothing with Evenepoel
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Roglic He didn’t want to know anything about sharing equipment with Evenepoel, long before the flamenco phenomenon said not to mention the toupee that, if the current Soudal disappeared, he would go to Ineos, where he has signed a pre-contract. Not even by surprise Evenepoel I would run alongside Vingegaard and especially with Wout van Aert (on Sunday he is the main favorite to win the second edition of the gravel World Championship). The two Belgian stars share hatred instead of affection.
So at 33 years old he reached an agreement with Jumbo to break the contract he had signed until 2025 and put himself on the market. Bora, with better lung than other competing teams, hired him for three seasons. The German team, perfect in terms of team potential, needed, apart from Hindley, a leader for the Tour, after the Russian’s constant failures Aleksandr Vlasov and after verifying that the Colombian Sergio Higuita It was good for one-week races (he won the Volta 2022) but not for three.
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