Primoz Roglic’s bid to win the 2021 Tour de France ended with the Slovenian pulling out on Sunday ahead of the first mountain top finish at Tignes in the Alps.
Last year’s runner-up trailed home a colossal 35min adrift of the 2020 champion Tadej Pogacar on Saturday as the toll from a heavy fall on stage 3 eventually scuppered his best intentions of a triumph here.
“It made no sense to continue the way it was going,” former ski-jumper Roglic said after a pulsating first week of racing caused major fallout amongst the contenders for victory in the 21-day race.
One sporting director told AFP the kind of fall Roglic suffered takes at least five days to get over due to the shock …
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