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Primoz Roglic gave up ski jumping, beat Luka Doncic in Slovenia and now leads the Tour de France

Primoz Roglic‘s story is summarized in a comment below a 21-second video of a 2007 ski jumping fall titled HORRIBLE CRASH.

A cycling champion was born that day.”

Roglic, 30, has worn the Tour de France yellow jersey all week. A pre-race favorite, he dons it going into a summit finish Friday, the first of five mountain stages in a six-stage stretch that could decide who stands atop the Paris podium on Sept. 20.

A cyclist from Slovenia — population similar to New Mexico and land size that would rank 48th among U.