Tour d'Italie 2023 - Primoz Roglic : "My philosophy ? It's to have the pink jersey in three weeks in Rome"
Avec Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), Primoz Roglic est l'autre très grand favori du 106e Tour d'Italie, qui partira samedi des Abruzzes. Quelques minutes après son grand rival belge, le Slovène de la Jumbo-Visma s'est présenté en conférence de presse et a livré son sentiment à quelques heures du contre-la-montre inaugural. "Je suis comme le vin... plus il est vieux, meilleur il est. Vous devenez plus sage et vous avez plus d'expérience", répond Primoz Roglic lorsqu'on lui demande s'il est un coureur différent par rapport à la dernière fois qu'il s'était présenté sur le Giro, à savoir en 2019, année où il avait pris la troisième place du classement général.
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00:00 Obviously, for sure, we tried to take care of it already before. But COVID is part of
00:12 nowadays living. It's not a big deal of it. But the thing is when you are sick or for
00:22 the athletes to perform on the highest level, you have a problem with it then. So what we
00:29 can do is to take care, to try to take care the best way we can. But yes, the things that
00:36 we used to do already, yes, we stick with that and hope for the best. I mean, we also
00:45 need to have some kind of luck with these things to stay healthy.
00:52 Sepp Kuss said in a recent interview that you are stronger and better than you were
00:57 four years ago. Do you agree that you are a different rider compared to 2019?
01:03 Like a wine, the older the better. For sure, I mean, you grew up, while getting older you
01:14 are somehow definitely wiser, you have more experiences. All strong and this we will see
01:24 in the upcoming days, definitely at the end. But yes, we did everything, we are ready to
01:32 go full.
01:34 We just spoke to Remco, he said, I think after Catalunya I'm just as good as Roglic on the
01:43 mountain climbs and I hope to find the time in the time trials. How do you look at that,
01:49 your time trial, everything? Are you confident in competing with Remco on all the disciplines?
01:57 For sure, I mean, definitely. But yes, how it will be in reality we will know soon after
02:08 day one and then going on with week after week to see how the power or the situation
02:18 is. But yes, in my case it's quite simple, try to stay healthy, try to stay healthy with
02:28 the team around and we just need to do our best and then we see what that means compared
02:35 to all the rest.
02:38 What is the winning philosophy, to get the Maglia Rosa earlier or as late as possible?
02:45 I mean, the best is to have it after the stage in Roma, then it's an individual choice or
02:55 whatever how to get it.
02:58 Thank you.