TakeWorlds4 weeks ago
Slovenia no longer has to control the race for Tadej Pogačar. They just lost the rider who let them do it. Uroš Murn now drops Roglič into a hunter's role instead of a favorite's, and he's treating the demotion as leverage: written off by the media is exactly where he wants to be.
Murn has Slovenia ranked third or fourth among favourites for Montreal, a category collapse from the Pogačar years. His read: «From what I have seen in the media, they have written us off a little now, which definitely plays into our hands.» Roglič, 11th in Rwanda and 6th in Italy at past Worlds, inherits leadership on a hilly course Murn thinks suits him — not as plan B, but as the new plan A.
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