Tour de France 2022: Primoz Roglic, injured on back and arm, abandons before start of 15th stage

After a fall at the end of the first week, Jumbo’s Slovenian had turned into a luxury lieutenant for his teammate Jonas Vingegaard, current yellow jersey.

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The Primoz Roglic cyclist, diminished by injuries, abandoned the Tour de France before the departure of the 15 step, Sunday July 17 in Rodez. For the Slovenian (32), the years follow each other and look alike in the big loop, which continues to escape him. He had to leave the race well before his end, last year, following a fall in the first week in Brittany. This year, the race is led by his Danish teammate Jonas Vingegaard, current yellow jersey, whom he will no longer be able to support until the arrival in Paris, Sunday July 24.

Primoz Roglic fell on the northern cobblestones, during the 5 ^{e stage leading to Arenberg. He wasted time and his status as a coleader of the Jumbo team, whom he shared from Copenhagen with Jonas Vingegaard, dolphin of the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar in 2021. Bruised in a shoulder and at the bottom, Roglic Transformed into a devoted lieutenant in the alpine stages, especially in the Granon pass stage, which allowed Vingegaard to dethrone Pogacar. He has repeatedly received the thanks from the new yellow jersey, recognizing with his elder.}

The current limits of Slovenian are reappeared on Saturday in the ultra -fast departure from Mende’s stage. Roglic was distant from the first coast before reintegrating the peloton. Reflection made, the team’s runner and supervision led to the decision of an early departure.

The Tour of Spain in the viewfinder

“To allow me to treat my injuries correctly, we decided that I will not start today,” said Roglic. “I am proud of my contribution to the current classification and I am convinced that the team will make our yellow and green ambitions. Thank you all for your great support,” he added in a relayed message by its team on Twitter .

His departure leaves the Jumbo team to seven runners against the UAE formation of Tadej Pogacar, reduced to six elements. Primoz Roglic, fourth in the 2018 edition, has accumulated disappointments in the Tour de France. If he has three stage successes at his record, he mainly experienced an immense disillusionment after he lost the yellow jersey on the eve of the arrival in 2020, for the benefit of Pogacar, during a counter- La-Montre entered history.

Winner this year from Paris-Nice, then Dauphiné, in which Vingegaard (2 ^{e ) set out, Primoz Roglic is the Tour of Tour d’Espagne winner in the Tour of Spain , which should now be his next big goal.}

In the event of a victory, the Olympic time trial champion would join the Spaniard Roberto Heras, who has the record of the four victories in the Vuelta since the Spanish justice validated one of his victories despite a check Positive anti -doping and sanctions for doping.