Primoz Roglic set for one more Tour de France bid after Red Bull
Primoz Roglic is not ready to call time on his career. According to MARCA, the Slovenian is expected to race on for at least one more season, with his future likely to be away from Red Bulll-Bora-Hansgrohe.
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According to MARCA, the 36-year-old wants a team where he can still feel like a leading figure, not simply a veteran name on the roster. The Tour de France is central to that thinking.
Roglič was part of Red Bull’s Tour team last year, but the race never really became his. He lost time early, drifted away from a clear general classification challenge and then tried to hunt stages instead. Even so, he still finished eighth overall in Paris. Inside the same team, Florian Lipowitz rode the race of his life, taking third overall and the white jersey.
With Remco Evenepoel arriving for 2026 and Lipowitz no longer a prospect but a proven Tour podium rider, there was no obvious place for Roglič in this year’s Tour plans. The team has built its campaign around Evenepoel and Lipowitz, leaving Roglič looking elsewhere for the kind of leadership role he still believes he can fill.
The plan now is not to slip quietly towards retirement. Roglič wants to keep racing at the highest level, but with what MARCA describes as “a different way of approaching the season”: less workload, more precision and a carefully managed preparation.
In practical terms, that would mean fewer long spells away from home and a more selective calendar. Roglič is said to favour quality over quantity, all with one race in mind.
The Tour remains the obvious target. It is also the race that has given him some of his hardest days, most famously in 2020, when he lost yellow to Tadej Pogačar on the time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles. Pogačar won his first Tour there. Roglič was left with one of cycling’s great what ifs.
Where he goes next remains open. What seems clear, according to MARCA, is what he wants from a new team: “trust, leadership and a project that sees him as more than just a big name.” Or, as the Spanish outlet puts it, Roglic wants “to feel needed.”
If that move materialises, 2027 could yet bring one final Tour push for Roglic.
It is the one prize still missing for the Slovenian after four Vuelta victories and one Giro d’Italia title, although winning it now looks close to an impossible task in a field stacked with riders such as Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Paul Seixas and Isaac del Toro.
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