{"id":202777,"date":"2025-09-29T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=202777"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:40:56","slug":"pogacar-wins-world-championship-road-race-vallieres-wins-womens-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/09\/29\/pogacar-wins-world-championship-road-race-vallieres-wins-womens-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Poga\u010dar Wins World Championship Road Race, Vallieres Wins Women\u2019s Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019t really a surprise that Tadej Poga\u010dar won Sunday\u2019s Elite Men\u2019s World Championship Road Race by a fair margin and in his usual manner, with a long, devastating solo ride.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A new reason to say \u201cWow!\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The defending champion took off from what remained of the peloton on the longest climb of the race, the Mont Kigali (5.9 km @ 6.9%), with 104.3 km left to ride on the 267.5 km course, accompanied only by his soon-to-be former teammate, Juan Ayuso and his UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG teammate Isaac del Toro. He shook off Ayuso on the steepest climb of the race, the Mur de Kigali (400 m @ 11%), dropped the ailing Isaac del Toro with 66.6 km left to ride, on the cobbled C\u00f4te de Kimihurura (1.3 km @ 6.3%), and then slowly stretched his lead over his pursuers to win his second World Championship in succession.<\/p>\n

The unlucky Remco Evenepoel finished second, 1:28 behind, and Irish rider Ben Healy came third, at 2:16. With his victory, the Slovenian became the first male rider to win both the Tour de France and the World Championship Road Race in the same year, two years in a row. The only other man who has achieved the feat at all was the great Eddy Merckx,<\/a> but not in successive years. Soon, there won\u2019t be any feats left for Poga\u010dar to achieve \u2013 not in road racing, at any rate. What will he try then? Formula 1? Boxing? Freediving?<\/p>\n

\u201cI was hoping that a small group would form like we did with Juan and del Toro, a perfect combo,\u201d he said after the race. \u201cI was like, this is a dream to ride together as far as possible as a trio, but Juan had a problem quite soon on the cobbles and del Toro had some stomach problems in the race, so I was left alone quite early, and I was solo like last year, just fighting with myself. But I\u2019m so happy I made it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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