With 74 wins, 4 Grand Tour wins, a monument and an Olympic gold medal, Primos Roglic will end his career in 2016 with the Jumbo Visma, 8 years after joining the Dutch team, and will head to Bora Hansgrohe for at least the next 2 seasons.
Roglic booked his stint at jumbo-Visma on the podium behind fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogañar (UAE team Emirates) and Andrea Bagioli (Soudal-QuickStep) at Il Lombardia after watching his compatriots climb up the road in the penultimate climb descent and could not follow him.
Logric had no regrets after the finish and was pleased with his final appearance in the yellow and black jerseys that he has frequently worn and honored over the past eight years, as well as with the top three results of the day.
"I am satisfied. This 3rd place was a victory for me," said Roglić, after Il Lombardia. "I just didn't have a foot... I'm glad it's completed. The pain is over.
"Surely I could have gotten better at the moment of the attack and tomorrow could have been different, but in that moment I didn't have a foot, so the third place was my win"
Roglić left everything on the road through the race for about 6 hours, and with pogañar and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) I entered the day as one of the big favorites to 1.
Pogañar often used his teammates at key stages of the race, surprising Roglić and forcing him into an extended chase, as he allowed Adam Yates to split the front group in attack before bridging to brit.
Logric had to spend considerable energy chasing Poganyar, only to catch the top of the Passodiganda just before the final winner plunged into the descent, which would be a move to win the race.
"I left everything on the road," Roglić said. "Obviously I didn't have a huh leg and was dropped but wanted to do well.
"I was fighting, fighting, fighting to come back. So third place was really the biggest I could achieve today. I have no regrets."
Logric's last season at Jumbo Visma won all of the Tirreno Adriatico, Volta a Catalunya, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a Burgos and Giro d'ELEMIGLIA, winning both the Vuelta a Espana and today's Il Lombardy. It has become one of the best, alongside the third place finish.
Dreaming of a victory in the Tour de France, he turned to 33-year-old Bora Hansgrohe, who should have the full support of the best team the German team can offer for him and is ready to fight Pogañar, Evenepoel and his former teammate Jonas Vingegaard. It is.
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