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‘I’m only human’ – Primož Roglič considered cycling future after latest Tour de France abandon

'I'm only human' - Primož Roglič considered cycling future after latest Tour de France abandon


Primož Roglič has revealed that he considered his future in cycling after the crash that saw him abandon this year’s Tour de France with a fractured vertebra. It was the third time in as many participations that the Slovenian had been forced out of the Tour due to injuries sustained in a crash.

Roglič last completed the Tour in 2020, when he led the race for eleven days only to lose the yellow jersey to compatriot Tadej Pogacar in the final time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles. Like in 2020 and 2021, Roglič recovered from this year’s Tour disappointment to win the Vuelta a España, but he told Slovenian newspaper Delo that his very future in cycling was far from a certainty in the immediate aftermath of the crash.

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