{"id":158714,"date":"2025-09-21T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158714\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T07:06:14","slug":"tadej-pogacar-the-top-favorite-but-what-about-the-big-dangerous-world-championship-question-mark-primoz-roglic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158714\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Pogacar the top favorite, but what about the big, dangerous World Championship question mark: Primoz Roglic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

All eyes are on the World Championships in Rwanda, with a focus on Tadej Poga\u010dar, but the defending champion has a very important wild card in Slovenia’s selection. Primoz Rogli\u010d may have had a somewhat disappointing Tour de France in the summer, but the Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe veteran will have prepared excellently for the road race in Africa<\/a>. National coach Uro\u0161 Murn is already full of expectation.<\/p>\n

Rogli\u010d rode the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France this year and will therefore have had some rest when he ended his summer in the Cl\u00e1sica San Sebasti\u00e1n at the beginning of August. He is a big question mark for the World Championships, because where should we place Rogli\u010d? Is it with the legs that won him the Tour of Catalonia convincingly this year? Or is it with the legs that fell short in the Tour, where he finished eighth?<\/p>\n

Slovenian national coach Murn attended a press conference in Rwanda on Friday, where RTV.slo<\/a> was also present. The leader of Poga\u010dar and co was in good spirits. “We are the favourites. The first favourite is the defending champion Poga\u010dar, but I also count on Rogli\u010d to turn the tables in Slovenia’s favour in the end. Rogli\u010d will join us directly from the high-altitude preparation. He went to Sierra Nevada for 14 days on his own initiative.”<\/p>\n

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Primoz Roglic<\/p>\n

Slovenia knows it can’t hide at the World Championships<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know how well prepared he is when he comes to the races,\u201d said Murn. \u201cI believe that Primoz will be perfectly prepared, so that he can mix things up in the final and secure the outcome. But the first favourite is definitely Tadej, who has now proven his strength in the races in Canada, just like last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Poga\u010dar in the team, Slovenia will have to carry the race, as Murn knows. \u201cThere will be no hiding places for us in these Championships. Everyone will race against us. I expect some individual escapes from the start, and then an attempt by those in the stronger group to break away somewhere two-thirds of the way. I don’t think we will attack, just like we didn’t last year. The main thing is to cover the escape of good cyclists like last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tadej Pogacar<\/p>\n

In addition to Pogacar and Roglic, Slovenia has more World Championship powerTo keep the World Championship in their hands, Poga\u010dar and Rogli\u010d will get help from Matej Mohoric<\/a>, Domen Novak, and Luka Mezgec, among others. Matevz Govekar, Gal Glivar, Jaka Primozic, and Matic Zumer will also be there in Rwanda. \u201cI expect a similar story this year, that one of our riders will be there. I expect that he will be well prepared, certainly better than last year, Domen Novak, as well as Gal Glivar. Both of them successfully completed the Vuelta.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw that Matej Mohori\u010d is good, probably in the best condition this year,\u201d Murn continued. \u201cI would say that we have an almost better prepared national team than last year. It’s a shame that Jan Tratnik is not there,\u201d he said, referring to the injured Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe rider. Sunday’s time trial is certainly not a preview. \u201cWhen he saw the time trial route, he immediately knew he had a chance to win. I think we will be watching a duel between Belgian Remco Evenepoel and Poga\u010dar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eyes are on the World Championships in Rwanda, with a focus on Tadej Poga\u010dar, but the defending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-158714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}