Primoz Roglic says he is over crash and ready for Tour de France
Vuelta champion said last week he was in ‘a lot of pain’ after crashing at the Criterium du Dauphine on August 15 and had not yet fully recovered
27 August 2020 - 16:45
Nice — Slovenian favourite Primoz Roglic said on Thursday he was ready for the Tour de France, removing any doubts about his participation in cycling’s biggest event of the year after a heavy fall in his previous race.
“I feel fine. I’m here at the Tour start now, so that’s good news,” the 30-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider told a news conference two days before the start of the race. “It’s been a different plan because we didn’t plan to have this complicated start with the crash and it took some time to restart and do the things I wanted to...
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