{"id":764981,"date":"2026-06-27T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764981\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:54:13","slug":"roglic-rolls-back-the-years-with-national-time-trial-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764981\/","title":{"rendered":"Roglic rolls back the years with national time trial title"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a long time since we\u2019ve seen Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d celebrate, especially in a time trial. At the Slovenian Time Trial Championships<\/a>, he claimed his first victory in a race against the clock since the Tour of the Basque Country in 2024. It was also his first national title since he won the road race in 2020. The 36-year-old veteran of Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe briefly brought back memories of his glory days on home soil.In the battle for the national title, Roglic was by far the fastest in Karteljevo<\/a>. He relegated the Bahrain Victorious duo of Roman Ermakov and Jakob Omrzel to second and third place, as they finished about a minute and a half behind on the 28.8-kilometer course. The last time we saw the Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe team leader claim victory was at the Tour of Catalonia, where he took the overall win in 2025.So, a welcome victory for Roglic. \u201cIt\u2019s never the easiest time trial,\u201d he told RTV Slovenia<\/a> after the national championship. \u201cIt was hot. I always say that a win is a win. Every win is special, and I\u2019m very happy with every win. Even today\u2019s, because I haven\u2019t won in a long time. Now we\u2019re moving on to Sunday\u2019s road race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the Slovenian will be aiming for his second road title. Friday marked his second national time trial title: he claimed his first victory in his debut race, in 2016. \u201cTen years go by quickly. It was amazing. A win is a win, and I\u2019m very happy that I rode a good time trial today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"primoz-roglic\"\/Roglic skips the Tour de France, aims for fifth Vuelta victoryRoglic will not compete in the Tour de France, where Remco Evenepoel and Florian Lipowitz are the team leaders for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe<\/a>. The Slovenian is expected to take on that role in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, where he\u2019ll be aiming for his fifth title. It would be a record, but does the seasoned veteran still have what it takes to go for the win?<\/p>\n

In typical Roglic fashion, he remains level-headed when asked about the Vuelta. \u201cI\u2019m not thinking about that yet. Let\u2019s just be happy about the victories first, which, in my case, are very rare, so I\u2019m glad I managed to pull it off, and then I\u2019ll compete in the road race on Sunday. We\u2019ll think about the Vuelta later. We\u2019ve already seen that it\u2019s difficult to qualify for the Grand Tours; there\u2019s a lot involved\u2014even the selection process for the Vuelta and the start is a whole other story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The question is whether we\u2019ll still see Roglic in the peloton in 2027<\/a>. After his 92nd professional victory, nothing has changed, he says. \u201cIf I knew anything or had a say in the matter, I\u2019d be happy to share it. There\u2019s a lot of speculation and guesswork, and all I can say is that anything is possible. We\u2019ll see what happens after the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a long time since we\u2019ve seen Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d celebrate, especially in a time trial. At the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,135704,12464,18460,82],"class_list":["post-764981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-national-championships","tag-primoz-roglic","tag-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764981","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=764981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}