‘He is the standard’: Pidcock says Pogacar forcing him to be better rider
Tom Pidcock believes Tadej Pogacar is forcing him to become a better rider as the Slovenian continues his remarkable dominance of the cycling season.
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Tom Pidcock believes Tadej Pogacar is forcing him to become a better rider as the Slovenian continues his remarkable dominance of the cycling season.
The 28-year-old Dutch rider produced a string of aggressive attacks before the decisive move on the epic 256.6km race which included 54.5km of rough cobbles.
UAE Team Emirates star Tadej Pogacar won the Tour of Flanders on Sunday with a searing solo attack in the final 20km on the one-day race to equal the great Eddy Merckx's achievement almost half a century ago.
Tadej Pogacar claimed his third Monument classic after a brutal attack on the Old Quaremont hill helped him win the Tour of Flanders on Sunday (Apr 2).
Eurosport expert Adam Blythe says he was “shocked” by Mathieu van der Poel’s (Alpecin-Deceuninck) attack that saw him win Milano-San Remo for the first time. Van der Poel was part of a high quality quartet that consisted of himself, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers). Ad It was Pogacar and UAE Team Emirates who did most of the damage to the rest of the peloton, before Van der Poel went for a big attack of his own just before the crest of the Poggio climb and held on to win by 15 seconds from Ganna and Van Aert.
Mathieu van der Poel won the Milan-Sanremo on Saturday to claim the first Monument of the season, 62 years after his grandfather won the race.
Sixty-two years after his grandfather Raymond Poulidor won Milano-San Remo, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) put in a pulverising performance to win the first Monument of the season on the via Roma in style. The Dutchman attacked from a leading quartet near the top of the Poggio to open up a small but decisive gap over Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Italy’s Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers).
Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel won the Milan-Sanremo on Saturday to claim the first Monument of the season, 62 years after his grandfather won the race.