Primož Roglič cut a forlorn, reflective, almost defeated figure when he spoke at a press conference before this year's Tour de France, revealing how his Giro d'Italia crash, abandon and slow recovery derailed his Tour ambitions. He indicated Florian Lipowitz as Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's possible GC leader, without setting any real personal ambitions.
"I was finished after the Giro, I was on antibiotics and stuff because I also had some kind of bacteria. I was suffering, I was on my knees," Roglič said before the team presentation on Thursday on Lille.
