Defending Olympic time trial champion Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) is not going to head to Paris after the Tour de France whereas Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is anticipated to guide Slovenia’s cost within the highway race.
Joining the Giro d’Italia winner is Jan Tratnik (Visma-Lease a Bike), who may also fill the nation’s single entry within the flat 32.4-kilometre Olympic time trial route in Paris.
Former Milan-San Remo winner Matej Mohorič of Bahrain Victorious and sprinter Luka Mezgec of Jayco AlUla spherical out the four-man choice.
Tratnik represented Slovenia together with Pogačar, the bronze medalist within the highway race in Tokyo, whereas Mohorič raced in Rio in 2016. Mezgec is making his Olympic debut.
Eugenia Bujak (UAE Team ADQ) and Urška Pintar from the Continental staff BTC City Ljubljana Zhiraf Ambedo, make up the ladies’s staff for Slovenia, introduced on Monday, competing within the 158-kilometre highway race and the 32.4-kilometre particular person time trial.
This 12 months’s Olympic Games marks the primary time that Slovenia has had this many athletes racing within the highway biking occasions.
However, the choice excludes Pogačar’s associate Urška Žigart (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), the top-ranked ladies’s WorldTour rider from the nation and the rider with probably the most factors in 2023 towards qualifying the 2 locations for the ladies’s highway race and time trial.
Pogačar expressed his shock by way of Instagram, writing “Wow, so gutted Urska Zigart, double nationwide champion and one of the best WorldTour rider in Slovenia was not chosen for Olympic Games. No phrases.”
With Roglič declining to compete in Paris after claiming the gold medal in Tokyo and highway race champion Richard Carapaz not making Ecuador’s choice, two new Olympic champions will probably be topped through the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
