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Alasdair Fotheringham

Primoz Roglič all smiles in the Vuelta a España time trial despite losing a tooth

Team Bora's Primoz Roglic competes in the stage 1 of La Vuelta a Espana cycling tour, a 12 km time-trial race from Lisbon to Oeiras, on August 17, 2024. (Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP).

Primoz Roglič is more than aware that the biggest tests in this year’s Vuelta a España are yet to come, but even compared to just a day before the race, the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe leader is already considerably more upbeat.

In his pre-Vuelta press conference, Roglič made no bones about the lingering pain from his back injury caused by a bad crash in the Tour de France, that led to his abandon on stage 13 with a fractured vertebrae.

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