Tag: Primoz Roglic
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Primoz Roglic completes the catch | a recap of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana
The 2024 Vuelta a Espana showcased two of the race’s abiding qualities. Firstly, the at times chaotic nature of the race that means serious riders can sometimes take serious time by getting in the right break. Secondly, the glut of opportunities to take time on your rivals if you can climb better than they can.…
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Why the 2024 Vuelta a Espana might have to pick its own favourites
Who will win the 2024 Vuelta a Espana? Pffsh. Who knows? Unlike the first two Grand Tours of the season, there’s little predictable about the upcoming trip round Spain. Last year the team that was then Jumbo-Visma, and is now Visma-Lease a Bike, arrived at the Vuelta armed with the guy who had just won…
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Sepp Kuss survives three Grand Tours and his own team-mates | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana
A strong, loyal and selfless servant on the crucial days when stage races are won and lost, Sepp Kuss is pretty much exactly what you’d mould if you had the power to shape the perfect team-mate. It was therefore something of a surprise when the two men he helped to victories in this year’s Giro…
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Primoz Roglic finally gets round to winning | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
Primoz Roglic famously lost the Tour de France in a mountain time trial. He was first overall at the bottom but only second by the top. This time he did the reverse, albeit with a gut-churning pause halfway up when he dropped his chain and came to a complete standstill. That stationary moment must have…
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Geraint Thomas second-places himself into the lead | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
When you plot the route for a three-week bike race, the ideal scenario on the first rest day is for one rider to be faster in the time trials, another rider to be faster in the mountains, and whichever one’s behind to have more opportunities coming up in the rest of the race. The 2023…
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Evenepoel, Roglic and a bunch of other people – a 2023 Giro d’Italia preview
Last year Jai Hindley became the first Australian winner of the Giro d’Italia. Cycling being cycling, he has rewarded the race by skipping it in favour of the Tour de France this year. So who does that leave us with? Remco Evenepoel The last time there was a three-week race, Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel won…
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Pogacar is unlike Vingegaard – a springtime state of play update
Spring is (sort of) here. Tadej Pogacar is winning bike races. Gauntlets are being thrown down. Where are we with everything? Shall we try and take stock? The WorldTour (the UCI still hasn’t found its space bar) officially began in January with the Tour Down Under, but road cycling’s deep-rooted eurocentrism means it never really…
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Well you could say that Remco Evenepoel was without rival | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Well, I’ve got to be honest, that kind of petered out a bit. The week began with Remco Evenepoel leading Primoz Roglic by 1m34s after the latter had repeatedly snatched small chunks of time and chipped away at the Belgian’s lead. The decisive moment Stage…
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Everyone’s fading but you | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Remco Evenepoel went into the second week of the Vuelta a Espana with a 1m12s lead, then he won the time trial by a mile, then he started fading a bit. Fortunately for him, his most obvious rival seems off the pace too. The TT…
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Remco Evenepoel deploys his tactic | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap A few months after dropping the entire field at Liege-Bastogne-Liege by riding slightly took quickly for them all, young Belgian mega-hope Remco Evenepoel has carved himself a 1m12s lead in the Vuelta a Espana by deploying the same unsubtle but so far unanswerable tactic. The…