{"id":248058,"date":"2025-07-08T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248058\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:10:10","slug":"he-said-he-doesnt-care-thats-a-slap-in-the-face-for-your-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248058\/","title":{"rendered":"He said he doesn\u2019t care! That\u2019s a slap in the face for your teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It was one heck of a statement. He was asked in an interview if he thought he could get on the top step of the podium and he said he doesn\u2019t care,” an astonished Blythe reflected on TNT Sports ahead of stage 2<\/a>. “And for me that\u2019s a slap in the face for your teammates. If he wasn\u2019t there yesterday because of a lack of position or whatever it was, and he\u2019s saying, \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019 and then not trying almost.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s an awful thing to say. It disrespects your whole team, the staff around you,” continued Blythe. “This sounds really awful. I\u2019m not trying to be awful to Primoz, but that was flat out the wrong thing to say. You\u2019re in a bike race to win.\u00a0I\u2019m not trying to say that he doesn\u2019t care either. That was just flat out the wrong thing to say.”<\/p>\n

Countering Blythe’s criticism however, four-time Tour de France stage winner Michael Matthews<\/a> stuck up for Roglic. “I think it\u2019s a way of taking pressure off of himself – saying he doesn\u2019t care,” explained the Australian.\u00a0“Maybe, in his world, saying \u2018I don\u2019t care\u2019 to the media is a way of saying, \u2018Go and interview someone else and just leave me alone. I\u2019ll keep doing my thing\u2019.”<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s so calculated. He knows what he needs to do, but he hasn\u2019t finished the Tour de France since 2020 so that will be playing on his mind for sure, when continuously being asked these questions. His Tour de France hasn’t really gone so well in recent years. It is going to be on his mind. That\u2019s what he\u2019s going to be thinking about this whole time,” Matthews adds. “Then, getting caught out with the split again – that\u2019s another setback in his Tour de France.\u00a0It can also be taken out of context too. We only saw what we saw. Maybe the interview was longer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It was one heck of a statement. He was asked in an interview if he thought he could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114817782720730205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}