Tag: Primoz Roglic
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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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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…
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Who will win the 2022 Tour de France?
There’s plenty of scope for slip-ups and misfortune over the course of a three-week bike race. All the same, it’s hard to see the 2022 Tour de France as anything other than Tadej Pogacar v Primoz Roglic v Covid-19. Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap The favourite Tadej Pogacar’s 2020 Tour de France win…
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Primoz Roglic finishes as he started | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2021 Vuelta a Espana
The favourites Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Primoz Roglic has won the Vuelta again – again again, you might say, because this was his third win on the bounce. The Slovenian won by just 24 seconds in 2020, but this time the winning margin was measured in minutes. He never really seemed too troubled…