At the beginning of September, Primoz Roglic bagged his fourth overall victory at the Vuelta. A few weeks earlier, the Slovenian did not even know whether he would return to the cycling business in 2024 after his serious fall at the Tour de France.
Speaking to the major Slovenian daily newspaper “Delo”, Roglic admitted that he had considered retiring following his serious fall on the 12th stage of this year’s Tour de France.
In the end, he is “just human,” the superstar described his feelings after he suffered a vertebral fracture during the Tour de France and had to abandon the Tour early for the third time in a row after 2021 and 2022.
“When this happened to me again, I started thinking about what I needed,” said Roglic. He asked himself the question: “Do I want to continue to be part of the cycling world and go through all this?” In the end, however, the 34-year-old came to a clear answer – and a correct one, as his fourth overall victory in the Vuelta showed a few weeks later.
Roglic: Decision to start in Vuelta was “quite easy”
All the “unpleasant incidents” he has gone through in his career “have also brought me many positive things. The support I get from my family and others when I get up after a fall is extraordinary,” the Slovenian said, raving about his inner circle and the people who are particularly close to him.
Despite this support, he found it difficult to get back on the saddle with pain. “But the support made it easier to make the decision to carry on. In the end, the decision to ride the Vuelta after another crash at the Tour was quite easy,” said the superstar.
Source: www.sport.de
