Primoz Roglic thought about moving the team "from the beginning of the year

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Primoz Roglic thought about moving the team "from the beginning of the year

After finishing 3rd in Jumbo-Visma on Saturday, Primošroglić has already said he is thinking of moving from the Dutch team at the beginning of the 2023 season.

The Slovenian, who was 52nd in the chase group with a 2・second delay to Tadej Pogañar (UAE Team Emirates), who won in Bergamo, will move to Bora Hansgrohe in 2024 and is his first new team since joining Jumbo-Visma in 2016.

His move was widely believed to have been motivated by a leadership dispute within the team that became a hot topic at last month's Vuelta a España, but the 33-year-old said that was what he was thinking much earlier in the year.

"It was already from the beginning of the year," Logric told La Gazzetta Dello Sport after the end of Il Lombardy. "Let's say in the Vuelta or something, I really wasn't at this point.

"But before I really built it, I was thinking about my future, my responsibilities, what I still want to achieve or do. Then it was very simple, eh?"

Roglić is expected to join the likes of Aleksandr Vlasov, Jai Hindley and Cianuijtdebroeks in his new team and will lead the team in the Tour de France for the next 7 Months.

So he aims to win 1 Grand Tour victory that has eluded him so far, quickly becoming a former teammate and winning Jonas Vingegaard and Pogañar, who have won 2 times on the tour.

He was not able to sign off from his spell at Jumbo Visma 81st career victory, although his podium at Bergamo falls off the back of a 2・stage victory at the Vuelta and a 2nd career victory at the recent Giro del Emilia.

"Satisfied," he said of his ride in Lombardy, which saw tadej Pogañar solo win from 31km.

"It was the best at the moment. Maybe tomorrow or some other day... But at that moment I did not have a foot. I did not have it. Third place was my victory.

Roglich gave everything on the final race day of 486 in the color of Jumbo Bismarck, but said he could not beat his compatriots like last weekend's San Luca Climb.

"It's just the fact that I put everything further on the road," he said. "Obviously, because I didn't have a leg. I was always dropped and I was just fighting, fighting, fighting to come back.

"Third place was the largest I could reach today."

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