That day was auspicious Roglic is a cousin decided to quit the ski jumping competition and switch to cycling. The jumping world may have lost a promising jumper, but the peloton has gained a great rider, one of the greatest, who is Tour He has been denied glory many times and to whom fate has turned away too many opportunities, preventing his resume from being greater than it already is.
roglic was born on October 29, 1989 in the city ofand Trbovlje –located in the homonymous valley, next to the river Savaa place rich in coal–, and, like many children around him, he devoted a good part of his childhood and youth to ski jumping, in a country, Slovenia, with a great tradition in winter sports.
The development of the Slovenian eagle is enough. In 2006, he won the team silver medal in Kranj Junior World Cup (Slovenia), and a year later in Italy he would win a gold medal in the junior category of the same competition. In the same year he won two trials of continental cupbut when everyone indicated that his career was preparing for the definitive leap in quality, in 2007 he suffered a serious fall on the Slovenian springboard in Planica. He broke his nose, several ribs, and had a concussion. An accident that he thought had the same natural way in which he assessed his cycling achievements: “I was young and I didn’t have the necessary respect or fear. I thought I could handle everything, then you learn that you have to have respect. Nothing It’s me and it’s a mistake on my part.”
Roglic recovered and jumped again, but after three seasons he saw the years passing by, that the results were not forthcoming and he decided to try his luck in cycling. He debuted in 2013 in the Adria Mobilewhere he spent three years before linking his fortunes with LottoNL-Jumbonow Jumbo-Vismawith whom he has a contract until 2015 and with whom he achieved a remarkable record: triple winner of La Vuelta (’19, ’20, ’21), double champion in Tirreno-Adriatico (’19, ’23), from Itzulia (’18, ’21), from the Tour de Romandie (’18, ’19), from Paris-Nice (’22), from Liège-Bastogne-Liège (’20), from the Critérium of Dauphiné (’22), the UAE Tour (’19) and the Volta (’23), in addition to being an Olympic time trial champion (’21) and amassing a whopping 72 victories.
Only the Tour could compete with him. 4th in 2019, in 2020 he fell victim to the Pogacar phenomenon that robbed him of his victory in a time trial for history, but he recovered from the blow and won his second Vuelta. He tried twice more to attack the Tour, but the race kicked him out of the competition in both crashes, although knowing his winning nature, it wouldn’t be surprising if he would one day spread his wings again towards Elysian Fields.
Waiting for that day, in May he will go for Italy is spinning, where he was 3rd in 2019 after crashing in the first change and fighting bad luck. Perhaps for this reason, because he knows what it costs to achieve glory and how fickle fortune is, yesterday he allowed his great rival in the Volta, the Belgian. evenepoelten years younger, won Montjuicwhen he can defend victory, but in victory, when everything comes face to face, you also need to know how to be generous, elegant.
Source: La Verdad
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