Primoš Roglic dismissed the idea that this year's Tour de France, with his new "Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe" team featuring Tadej Pogachar, Jonas Vingegaard, and Remco Evenepoel, could realistically be his last chance to win He said.

The 34-year-old will be taking on his seventh career Tour and will face three rivals. Pogachar is in his second Grand Tour this year, Vingegaard is questionable in his recovery from his accident in Ituria, Basque Country, and Evenpole is in doubt about whether he can win in his debut race.

Roglic, who turns 35 in October, is seven years older than the top riders, but said at a pre-race press conference in Florence that he is not worried about running out of chances to win.

"It's true (that I am 34), but I still feel young now," he said. 'First of all, I can start on Saturday. I don't worry about questions like that."

"For example, I changed teams to get that chance. As for myself, I will either win the Tour or I won't, and next year I will win again or I won't. It's day and night. The fact is there

"Just don't have any regrets, give everything you have to things and do your best. Whether it's the last time or ten more times, as long as you have fun, that's all that matters."

Pogachar has not raced since winning the Giro d'Italia in May, and Vingegaard has not raced since his crash in Ituria in April.

He worked well in France with new teammate and superdomestique Alexandre Vlasov despite his final stage scare.

"[Preparation] is part of the job, but I feel good so far," he said of his recovery from pain. 'Last week went well, no pain. I want to enjoy this feeling until Saturday [The Tour has three weeks. But it starts on day one, and I'm going to win from day one to day 21.

"It's already a big battle with big mountains, including stages 1, 2, and 4 on the Galibier, and time trials and gravel stages. It's a crazy first week.

Vlasov will return to Roglic's side for the weekend and the rest of the Tour, while Jai Hindley, Matteo Sobrero, Nico Denz, Marco Haller, Danny van Poppel, and Bob Jungels will also help him win the yellow jersey.

For Roglic, who has spent the past eight years with Jumbo Visma, this race will be the first Tour of his career away from the Dutch team.

"Hopefully they'll give us wings," he joked. he joked. It's really great to be part of a project this big. Having a big sponsor like Red Bull is a big change for the whole cycling world. It makes the teams stronger and the riders stronger. It makes the level of cycling go up and up and up.

"But I don't really think about the competition or anything else. It's just enough to be a new team and fine-tune ourselves with everyone around us. We're going to think about these things and try to implement them later."

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