{"id":248227,"date":"2025-07-08T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248227\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:41:11","slug":"roglic-is-not-participating-in-this-tour-de-france-analysts-question-quiet-start-of-primoz-roglic-at-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248227\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRoglic is not participating in this Tour de France\u201d \u2013 Analysts question quiet start of Primoz Roglic at the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the opening stages of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> have<br \/>\nbeen filled with chaos and headlines, with many crazy crashes, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/primoz-roglic\" title=\"Primoz Roglic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primoz Roglic<\/a> has<br \/>\nflown largely under the radar. But not everyone sees that as a positive.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe team leader lost 39 seconds<br \/>\nin the echelons on day one and has yet to make a visible impact on the race.<br \/>\nThough some observers see a quiet first week as a smart way to conserve energy,<br \/>\nJan Hermsen believes the team has failed their five-time Grand Tour winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would rather see them keep him calm in the first<br \/>\nweek and see how far he can go. Ride a good time trial and then see how far he<br \/>\ncan go. I would never let him down and they did in the first stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roglic is returning to racing just weeks after crashing out<br \/>\nof the Giro d\u2019Italia in May. His physical condition and timing have naturally<br \/>\nbeen under scrutiny, and Hermsen doesn\u2019t think the signs so far are<br \/>\nencouraging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was also in a gap in the second stage, while that<br \/>\nfinish was a finish where he would have won in the past. In all respects,<br \/>\nRoglic is not participating in this Tour de France. You see that in everything,<br \/>\nyou notice it in everything. He is more attentive and is in a better position<br \/>\nthan in the Giro, but he is not a shadow of the Roglic we know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the opening stages of the 2025 Tour de France have been filled with chaos and headlines, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248227","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\/114818140309903529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248227","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=248227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}