{"id":188489,"date":"2022-02-01T11:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=188489"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:28:51","slug":"roglic-asks-jumbo-visma-to-get-tour-strategy-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/02\/01\/roglic-asks-jumbo-visma-to-get-tour-strategy-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogli\u010d Asks Jumbo-Visma to Get Tour Strategy Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Though the Tour de France is six months away, it is still possible to speak with near certainty about who the favorites and their main rivals will be (barring an unexpected event, such as illness or injury).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For example, we can confidently say now that Jumbo-Visma will again be the strongest team in the peloton, with not one, not two, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velo101.com\/pros\/article\/lrequipe-jumbovisma-se-montre-ambitieuse-pour-la-saison-2022--22508\">three leaders<\/a>, perennial Tour favorite Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d, last year\u2019s Tour de France surprise, Jonas Vingegaard, and the multi-talented Wout van Aert.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the excess of talent on the Dutch team may present a problem, with Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard both targeting the yellow jersey and van Aert aiming for the green jersey. As Rogli\u010d has said, Jumbo-Visma could also shoot for the polka-dot jersey because they have superb climber, Sepp Kuss, expected to ride the Tour.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We wish @JumboVismaIce good luck at the Olympics!\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffc<br \/>Here are 5 tips from our side\ud83d\ude1c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beijing2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beijing2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lCj1cimEJF\">pic.twitter.com\/lCj1cimEJF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team Visma | Lease a Bike (@vismaleaseabike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vismaleaseabike\/status\/1487025478703722501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Rogli\u010d \u2013 who recently signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamjumbovisma.com\/news\/news\/roglic-extends-and-will-complete-a-decade-at-team-jumbo-visma\/#:~:text=Primoz%20Roglic%20and%20Team%20Jumbo,ten%20years%20in%20Dutch%20service.&amp;text=In%202016%2C%20Roglic%20started%20his,built%20up%20an%20impressive%20palmares.\">contract extension<\/a> with the Dutch team until 2025 \u2013 is wary of the possibility of competing objectives and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/roglic-says-jumbo-visma-need-to-think-carefully-about-balancing-his-and-van-aerts-tour-de-france-ambitions\/\">has called on<\/a> the team to \u201cthink carefully\u201d about how it approaches the 2022 Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>With van Aert having publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/12\/13\/can-wout-van-aert-win-the-skoda-green-jersey\/\">stated<\/a> that he has the Skoda green jersey in his sights this year, this could present a problem to the ambitions of the other two team leaders, Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian had been vital to Rogli\u010d\u2019s previous attempts to win the yellow jersey, with stage wins coming when an opportunity arose or, as last year, after the Slovenian was no longer in the race.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Belgian newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.be\/wielrennen\/een-openhartig-interview-met-primoz-roglic-en-zijn-kersverse-bruid-lora-hij-zat-te-mediteren-op-de-leuning-van-zijn-balkon-in-zijn-ondergoed-met-een-appel-ik-dacht-wat-een-gek~afe77f5d\/?cb=28fb58d50b248ce6cc21f6112c543237&amp;auth_rd=1\">Het Laatste Nieuws,<\/a> Rogli\u010d said there was a danger of the team spreading its resources too thin, especially with two riders going for the same prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn theory, anything is possible,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cBut the team has to determine what our main goal is, and then we have to have a plan that works for the two of us. It must be the intention that Wout and I help each other.\u00a0We have to find a way so he can go for a stage win and I can try to get some time at the same time.\u00a0We have to think about that carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogli\u010d said that his pursuit of a Tour de France GC victory is not an \u201cobsession,\u201d insisting that he\u2019d rather be remembered as a \u201cfighter\u201d than be judged on his trophies. Still, at 32 years of age, this may be the last realistic chance he will have to win the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d love to win the Tour, sure, but I don&#8217;t need to be remembered as the rider who won or didn&#8217;t win the Tour,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2021\/06\/29\/ride2unite-podcast-with-primoz-roglic-i-had-to-learn-how-to-suffer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogli\u010d<\/a> said.\u00a0&#8220;I\u2019d rather people think of me as the man who fought for it every time, the man who gave the best of himself every race.\u00a0That&#8217;s who I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Slovenian finished fourth overall in the 2018 Tour in what was his breakthrough as a potential Grand Tour champion. He returned in 2020 after winning the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, but suffered a heartbreaking penultimate-day defeat at the hands of countryman Tadej Poga\u010dar. An early crash put an end to his GC ambitions last year.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he remained confident he can still win the yellow jersey, he declared: &#8220;Yes,\u00a0I believe in that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Tour de France is six months away, it is still possible to speak with near certainty about who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":188490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[5450,2718,1221,3415,433,831],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-188489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-jonas-vingegaard","tag-jumbo-visma","tag-primoz-roglic","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tour-de-france","tag-wout-van-aert","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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