Primož Roglič loses time as he suffers through hectic Tour de France stage seven

The Slovenian is still hurting from his stage three crash

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Primož Roglič
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Primož Roglič lost more time on stage seven of the 2021 Tour de France, making his continued GC challenge an evermore unlikely prospect.

Last year's runner-up has been suffering since his stage three crash, saying before the start of stage seven that he was still in a lot of back pain, with his tailbone also still causing him discomfort after he landed hard on the tarmac earlier this week.

Roglič was distanced towards the end of the 249km-long stage, losing nearly four minutes to the peloton containing most of his GC rivals.

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He is now more than five minutes in arrears to defending champion Tadej Pogačar.

It was a day of highs, lows and stress for Slovenia, as Bahrain-Victorious' Matej Mohorič won the stage and Tadej Pogačar's UAE Team Emirates were forced to chase a large chase group peeling away up the road, throwing down an early gauntlet after last year's winner showed imperious form in the stage five time trial.

This weekend, before Monday's first rest day, two Alpine challenges present themselves, and will be doubly hard after today's challenge.

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Jonny Long

Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.

I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.

Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).

I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.