'I find it very strange' - Primoz Roglic's decision to abandon Tour de France and teammate Jonas Vingegaard questioned

Primoz Roglic’s decision to abandon this year’s Tour de France has led to raised eyebrows, not least from Eurosport’s Breakaway team. The Jumbo-Visma rider took the decision to pull out of the race ahead of Stage 15 ‘to allow my injuries to heal’ following a crash on Stage 5. Ad/> It is expected that the Slovenian will focus on his recovery ahead of the Vuelta a Espana in August as he looks to win the General Classification for a fourth year in a row.

Tour de France'I need to let my injuries heal' — Roglic withdraws from Tour, Cort and Clarke out with Covid-195 HOURS AGO However, with teammate Jonas Vingegaard currently in the yellow jersey, and Roglic essentially working as a domestique, Dan Lloyd questioned the logic of Roglic’s exit and his personal motivations with Jumbo so close to glory. “I think it's going to be a reasonably big blow,” he said of the impact it will have on the team. “But I don't think that they will have too many problems over the last week of the race, just given the strength of the rest of the riders that still remain within it.

“I'd be interested to know why that decision was made at this point, whether it is purely physical, and he hasn't recovered from the injuries from that stage five crash, or whether it's more psychological that he didn't come into this race to help somebody else to win it. “He came here to win it himself, and I'm just wondering whether he's thinking: ‘I'm not fully recovered. I'm not really enjoying working for somebody else.

And I want to focus on my own objectives later this season’. “It looks to me like he wants to focus on winning a fourth straight Vuelta a Espana”. 'I need to let my injuries heal' — Roglic withdraws from Tour, Cort and Clarke out with Covid-19 'He