Two days after his hard fall Tour de France, Primoz Roglic had to swallow the pain in the individual time trial to Laval. Despite his injuries, the Jumbo-Visma leader was 7th, 44 seconds behind stage winner Tadej Pogacar.
“I’m happily, I really totally squeezed everything out of myself. I stand by my ride and I’m proud of it,” Roglic said. “During the time trial you always have pain. The biggest difference is that I am missing some power.”
“I can certainly still laugh. I actually really feel ‘shit’, I can still massively feel my wounds. Fortunately, things have been going a bit better since the fall. I was able to get through yesterday and today. Hopefully things should go even better the next few days.”
“We will give everything every day and then we will see where we end up,” he said. “I will definitely keep fighting.”
