What are the chances? Primož Roglič's ex-ski jumping teammate was Giro d'Italia spectator who helped with crucial post-mechanical push
Roglič too addressed the bizarre, but incredibly fortunate coincidence: "He's a super good friend. He was my roommate in the past when I was a ski jumper. He was one of the four guys in the [Slovenian] team when we were junior world champs in 2007, in the same place in Tarvisio. It's incredible."
"You couldn't script that better, even if you wanted to," breakaway king-turned-pundit Jens Voigt said of the incident."It is absolutely mind-blowing to think of the chances. That would be like winning the lottery five times in a week. It's absolutely fantastic." Mežnar's ski jumping career highlight came at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver where he finished eighth in the team large hill and 29th in the individual event, while at the 2009 world championships he finished eighth in the individual normal hill and 47th in the individual large hill.
The success has not been linear, however, that devastating penultimate stage time trial loss of the 2021 Tour de France at La Planche des Belles Filles looked to be being repeated on Saturday, down to the shocked reaction of his tortured teammates watching on at the finish.
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