{"id":231666,"date":"2025-10-22T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:42:08","slug":"why-should-we-compete-against-each-other-primoz-roglic-calls-for-unity-with-remco-evenepoel-in-battle-against-pogacar-and-vingegaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/231666\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy should we compete against each other?\u201d \u2013 Primoz Roglic calls for unity with Remco Evenepoel in battle against Pogacar and Vingegaard"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 35, Primoz Roglic<\/a> no longer rides as the calculating perfectionist who once seemed destined to win every stage race he entered. The Slovenian has evolved into something rarer \u2014 a rider at ease with his own contradictions. Ten seasons into his WorldTour career and approaching what may be his final year in the peloton, he speaks with a kind of calm that only comes from surviving both triumph and turmoil.\u201cI\u2019m still here, you know, still riding the bike,\u201d he says with a smile to Cycling News<\/a> in an end of season interview. After all, fifteen years in ski jumping and near-enough another fifteen on the road have taught him perspective. \u201cMy whole career has had its ups and downs, but I wouldn\u2019t change anything, even the crashes and disappointments. Cycling is a challenge but teaches you about yourself and life.\u201dThat balance between suffering and serenity defines him now. Roglic calls cycling \u201cincredible\u201d and \u201cbeautiful\u201d precisely because it hurts; the struggle, he says, \u201chelps me with life.\u201d His 2025 season captured that duality perfectly: a dominant win at the Volta a Catalunya, heartbreak at the Giro d\u2019Italia after a brutal crash, and then a defiant ride through the Tour de France<\/a>, finishing eighth but, more importantly, finishing content. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t care, then I would be on Bora Bora island, not in Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe<\/a>,\u201d he jokes. \u201cCycling is still my life \u2014 if you can be happy in the morning, you\u2019ve achieved your first goal in life.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nSharing the loadThe coming year will see Roglic share leadership duties with Remco Evenepoel<\/a>, the new headline act at Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe. To outsiders, it looks like a potential power clash; to Roglic, it feels like liberation. He admits he\u2019s ready for others to carry some of the weight. \u201cRemco\u2019s arrival is a good thing. It means I can step aside a bit from all the responsibility\u2026 I hope to have a little more peace, a little more freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s quick to dismiss talk of rivalry. \u201cWe have bigger opponents to try to compete against \u2014 why should we compete against each other?\u201d he asks, thinking of Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. What matters, he insists, is finding harmony within the team. \u201cIt\u2019s about how we do our best together. Remco\u2019s an incredible guy with big results; hopefully we can both do well together.\u201d<\/p>\n

That pragmatic optimism extends to his own future. The much-quoted \u201cwe\u2019ll see, uh?\u201d line, which set off retirement rumours earlier this autumn, was never meant to sound cryptic. \u201cI said that because I don\u2019t really want to think about the future \u2014 we don\u2019t even know if we\u2019re alive next year,\u201d he says. \u201cI still have a contract, so normally I\u2019ll ride. I take life day by day, happy that I\u2019m still here and still riding my bike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing a line under the Tour<\/p>\n

After years of near-misses and misfortune, simply reaching Paris in 2025 gave Roglic the closure he didn\u2019t realise he needed. \u201cThe Tour was different this year and it made me happy,\u201d he says. \u201cI almost won the Tour once, so finishing fifth or tenth doesn\u2019t really give me anything. But having some nice moments, good results \u2014 that was enough. Finishing in Paris was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

He sounds like a man ready to step away from obsession without surrendering ambition. \u201cI can draw a line under the Tour now, without any bad feelings,\u201d he admits. \u201cAs long as you\u2019re doing something you enjoy, you still want to win, you want to do your best. That\u2019s how I feel about cycling now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifteen years after swapping ski slopes for switchbacks, Roglic has stopped measuring himself by results alone. \u201cEverything happens for a reason,\u201d he says quietly. \u201cSo I take it all, good or bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a rider once defined by control, that acceptance may be his most significant victory yet.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 35, Primoz Roglic no longer rides as the calculating perfectionist who once seemed destined to win every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-231666","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\/231666","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=231666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}