Primož Roglič cut a forlorn, reflective, almost defeated figure when he spoke at a press conference before this year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, revealing how his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia crash, abandon and slow recovery derailed his Tour ambitions. He indicated 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Florian Lipowitz as Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's possib♔le GC leader, without sett𓆉ing any real personal ambitions.

"I was finished after the Giro, I was on antibiotics and stuff because I also had some kind of bacteria. I was suffering, I was on my knees," Roglič said before the team presentation on Thursday on Lille.

"Now we'll see what I can do. I have nothing to prove. We'll see at the end what it means. I just want to get 💃to Paris, drink some champagne and end there."

Roglič is now 36. He has a contract with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe for 2026 but seems ever near the end of his career, hinting this could be his last-ever Tour de France.

"Every day that we live is close to our last day. Every Tour I do is probably close to the ꦿlast one I will do," he said cryptic💞ally.

"I don't really care. I know🥂 the races I won and didn't yet win yet. I have unfinished business with the Tour de France but winning it or not… I'm 36 years old, it won't change my life in any way now.

"I'm happy and proud to still be able tꦗo come to the Tour and be a part of the biggest cycling event in the world, just that, I'll take it day by day."

More than ever, Roglič appeared affected by the crashes that have taken him out of the Tour in recent years and out of this year's Giro d'Italia.

"Shit things sharpen you. Withoꦬut bad things, you don't know what the🉐 good things are," he said.

"For some things you can say it's your fault or you are in the place where things happen. What matters is how you take it and go with it. I try to learn from every situation. It's easier to learn when something goes wrong or not the way you want it to go. Winning is a hard way to learnඣ and be realistic."

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