TakeVuelta5 weeks ago
Roglič's time-trial position still shows an extreme hip angle and messy frontal area — the kind of thing Dan Bigham's aero program exists to fix. That's not necessarily an oversight, but it lines up with growing doubts that Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe still treats him as its time-trial project.
Red Bull built Stage 18 around Roglič taking 1:00 to 1:30 out of Enric Mas. He delivered 33 seconds, riding a position analysts flagged as outdated well before the result came in. Bigham's actual work — PIV laser testing in the Catesby Tunnel — has been aimed elsewhere, and rumours that Roglič doesn't work with him at all remain unconfirmed, but the position on display makes them harder to dismiss as just gossip.
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