{"id":272290,"date":"2025-07-18T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272290\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:50:15","slug":"im-working-on-my-tan-for-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272290\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m working on my tan for the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On their post-stage podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/geraint-thomas\" title=\"Geraint Thomas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geraint Thomas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/luke-rowe\" title=\"Luke Rowe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Rowe<\/a> were also stunned by the fashion choice of Roglic. &#8220;Roglic though \u2014 no socks. What was that?&#8221; Thomas asked in confusion. &#8220;Looked awful, didn\u2019t it?&#8221; Rowe added.&#8221;100% <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/dan-bigham\" title=\"Dan Bigham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bigham<\/a>\u2019s idea. Probably some theory about cooling the legs. But it looked like a club rider at a rest-day spin. I could have cried,&#8221; Rowe continued, with Thomas finishing the debate: &#8220;Yeah, always thought he looked classy on a bike\u2026 until today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking post-stage, Roglic was asked to explain himself and his sock choice. In typically dry fashion, the Slovenian, smiled and put the decision down to working on his tan lines. &#8220;It&#8217;s hot no? I&#8217;m working on my tan for the summer. A bit without the lines,&#8221; chuckled Roglic.<\/p>\n<p>On the road meanwhile, Roglic was outshone on Hautacam by his young teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/florian-lipowitz\" title=\"Florian Lipowitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florian Lipowitz<\/a>, with the German surging right into podium contention thanks to his 3rd placed finish on stage 12. Roglic however, now sits 7th overall, 7:30 down on his Maillot Jaune wearing compatriot Tadej Pogacar in the general classification and perhaps more importantly, 2:45 down on Remco Evenepoel and a podium place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On their post-stage podcast, Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe were also stunned by the fashion choice of Roglic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-272290","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\/114874798811527689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272290","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=272290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}