This year’s edition of the last Monument of the season, Il Lombardia, was déjà vu all over again: It was won by Tadej Pogačar after a 36.6km solo ride that no one could follow, with Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) finishing second, at 1:48, and –…
From now on, I will use a template to write the first line of every story about a Grand Tour or one-day race in which world, and now European, champion Tadej Pogačar rides. It will read like this: Tadej Pogačar won the [name of race]…
The 2025 UCI Road Race World Championships, which ended Sunday with the Elite Men’s race, were remarkable not only because they were the first to be held on the African continent – though that was surely special.
Sport is really a simple affair. The team with the better players wins most of the time, and the strongest athlete usually wins the individual competitions. So it wasn’t really a surprise that Tadej Pogačar won Sunday’s Elite Men’s World Championship Road Race by a…
