One second made all of the difference for Primož Roglič. The Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe team leader missed out on victory in the Giro d’Italia’s stage two time trial by a mere second – or by 24 hundredths, to be exact – but claimed the leader’s jersey by that same amount. Finishing an extremely close second to Josh Tarling in the TT put the Slovenian veteran back in pink jersey he won in 2023 and suggested that he’s right on track to repeat that triumph.
Typically, though, Roglič wasn’t going to get carried away either by his capture of the Giro’s lead or by the significant time he had gained on many of his GC rivals. “I’m happy, definitely,” he said of taking the jersey. “You don’t really plan it. You dreaming about having it, fighting for it, having it in Rome.”
