Red Bull now also attacking the Tour throne
The entry of the new main sponsor is complete. With Captain Primoz Roglic, the German team Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe will fight for victory at the Tour de France in France. To avoid excessive stress, the team is fully aligned with Roglic.
Red Bull's logo appears on the jerseys, and financially, the team is now in a new league - with Primoz Roglic, the German cycling team Red-Bull-Bora-hansgrohe plans to make a move for the Tour de France throne. Three years after the bitter failure of the Slovenian, when he had the Yellow Jersey taken from him by his compatriot Tadej Pogacar on the second-to-last stage, the German cycling team Red-Bull-Bora-hansgrohe and its new captain plan to make their move. "Results can't be rewritten. Maybe there will be a revenge one day. He doesn't have much time left. In five years, it will be too late. One can already say: Now or never," said team manager Ralph Denk to the German Press Agency.
The new design with blue jerseys and the fully aligned team for the Tour de France, which begins on Saturday, was presented in Salzburg at the new main sponsor. "I'm missing the Tour de France, and that's a beautiful goal," said Roglic, who won the Giro d'Italia last year after three victories at the Vuelta (2019-2021). Now, at 34 years old, he has few chances left.
Roglic faces strong competition
And the competition is greater than ever. Last year's winner Jonas Vingegaard is fit again after his bad fall in the Basque Country, and Belgian youngster Remco Evenepoel is making his Tour de France debut. However, the big favorite is exceptional talent Tadej Pogacar. "Mano a mano, if Tadej comes with the form from the Giro, it will be terrible difficult," said Denk and added: "But it's three weeks with insane amounts of obstacles. It's not just the high mountains. It's the race with the highest stress level."
To avoid excessive stress, the team is fully aligned with Roglic. Former Giro winner Jai Hindley (Australia), Alexander Wlassow (Russia), and Matteo Sobrero (Italy) will help in the mountains, while Nico Denz is the only German, Bob Jungels (Luxembourg), Marco Haller (Austria), and Danny van Poppel (Netherlands) are expected to perform well on the sometimes rough flat stages.
With Red Bull's entry, the team is financially on par with top teams like UAE, which have a budget of around 50 million Euros. The team will be restructured next year. Regarding potential new signings, Denk remains silent, but Pogacar or Vingegaard are unlikely to receive offers: "It would be nice if we discovered and developed a young athlete and he won the Tour de France for us in three, four years."
Sporting in the Tour de France, the German cycling team Red-Bull-Bora-hansgrohe plans to challenge for the throne, motivated by primed contender Primoz Roglic. Cycling's biggest race, beginning this Saturday, will see intense competition from rivals like Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, and evident favorite Tadej Pogacar. With Red Bull as their major sponsor and a unified team, Roglic and his fellow cyclists aim to etch their names among the greats of the Tour de France.
