The winner of the Giro stage this afternoon, Primoz Roglic, has given a hilarious interview where he said he has never done a time-trial longer than 10 kilometres (Photo: Sirotti)
The winner of the time-trial at the Giro d’Italia this afternoon has really had a roller-coaster race thus far.
The little known Primoz Roglic from Slovenia, riding for the Dutch team LottoNL-Jumbo, surprised many when he finished one tenth of a second behind Tom Dumoulin (Giant Alpecin) on the opening prologue stage last Friday week.
But from that high he went to the low of crashing two days later and limping to the finish.
In fact, he barely made the time limit on some of the subsequent stages; crossing the line towards the back of the gruppetto on some occasions.
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However, he bounced back in style yesterday to win the biggest race of his life.
And he endeared himself to the public with an emotional – and hilarious - interview afterwards.
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Don't be fooled by the laid back approach, this is a very serious bike rider; Primoz Roglic on his way to victory during Sunday's TT at the Giro (Photo: Sirotti)
“After approximately 10 kilometres, I lost my computer and my bottle,” he said.
“I indicated to my sport director to pick my computer up but I'm not sure if he understood what I was telling him.
“I also lost motivation and I decided to take it easy.
“But I was feeling fantastic uphill so I just pushed and pushed for the fun of it.
"I was really slow and unlucky at the beginning but very fast and lucky at the end because I only felt a drop or two while the riders after me got the pouring rain.
"This is strange, very strange. I didn’t expect it; I was just trying to do my best. In the end, I had some luck with the weather and that was it.
"It was the first time that I had done a time trial of more than 10 kilometres and it was fun.
“It was all the time up and down, left and right. I had luck with the weather and I could just do my best.”
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