{"id":318514,"date":"2025-11-30T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318514\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:05:12","slug":"roglic-refuses-to-give-up-the-red-bull-fight-for-tour-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318514\/","title":{"rendered":"Roglic refuses to give up the Red Bull fight for Tour-spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

WorldTour season number eleven is coming up for Primoz Roglic<\/a>. The Slovenian will start his third year with Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe in 2026, but what can we realistically expect? The 36-year-old stage racer has had a more difficult season, and with growing internal competition, it\u2019s logical that questions arise. Roglic himself, however, remains as ambitious as ever.<\/p>\n

Primoz Roglic is the first to admit that his 2025 season was disappointing. His only victories came at the Volta a Catalunya, where he won two stages and the overall classification. His career tally now stands at 91 wins. \u201cAt the pace I\u2019ve been going since last year, I think I\u2019ll need another ten years to reach one hundred,\u201d he joked to Marca. \u201cBut yes, I hope I can win a few next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The German team endured a relatively tough campaign, with several major objectives slipping away. Even so, Roglic sees a squad that can be stronger than Visma | Lease a Bike in its dominant 2023 season. \u201cWe won a lot of races, we made history. The team keeps growing. Every year it\u2019s a new team with new people, and we have to prove it on the road. But yes, I think we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"primoz-roglic\"\/Can Lipowitz win a Grand Tour? Roglic is a believerThe arrival of Remco Evenepoel<\/a> already marks a huge step forward. If the Belgian makes another leap in performance with Red Bull, he could again fight for Grand Tour victories. Add Florian Lipowitz<\/a> to the mix, and the team has another major talent. The German climber finished third in the Tour de France<\/a>, and his Slovenian teammate believes he can push even higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course he can compete. Last year he was already on the podium and made solid progress. He has been up there in several top events, so in that sense there\u2019s no doubt. Winning is another matter: that\u2019s always more complex and hard to predict. But he\u2019s there, he has shown it already, and I see no reason why he couldn\u2019t match that level \u2013 or even improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"florian-lipowitz\"\/Is 2026 Roglic’s final season?<\/p>\n

And what about Roglic himself? He seemed on track for a top-five finish in the Tour de France before dropping down the rankings on the final mountain stage. Could 2026 be his last season at WorldTour level? \u201cRight now, I don\u2019t know,\u201d he admits. \u201cFirst I need to know my race programme and how I feel about each event. I prefer to take it step by step, assess my level, my motivation, and the challenges ahead. Then we can talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether he rides the Tour, Vuelta or Giro remains undecided. For now, Roglic mainly wants to enjoy being on the bike. Results will follow, he says \u2014 and he still hopes the defining achievement of his career is yet to come. \u201cI still enjoy cycling. Winning the Tour de France would be a dream. Winning five Vueltas would also be very special. But above all: to keep enjoying it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WorldTour season number eleven is coming up for Primoz Roglic. The Slovenian will start his third year with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,173159,63662,39733,85,2845],"class_list":["post-318514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-florian-lipowitz","tag-primoz-roglic","tag-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}