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Pogacar continues to dominatepublished at 19:38 GMT
Matt Warwick
BBC Sport cycling reporter
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Tadej Pogacar once again dominated the men’s cycling scene, with commanding victories earned with ever-more explosiveness and greater finishing time margins.
The world’s greatest male cyclist did what everybody thought he would do this year and won his fourth Tour de France – plus another seven World Tour races alongside it, and the Road World Champion’s rainbow jersey during its first hosting in Africa.
But two of the sport’s biggest race wins still allude the 27-year-old, in the monuments of Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix, both won in 2025 by Dutch monster Mathieu van der Poel.
Just as Pogacar equalled Chris Froome’s Tour title total of four, the British legend was quietly let go from the now-defunct Israel-Premier Tech – a team at the forefront of the sport this year for all the wrong reasons, as a rider contract lawsuit and pro-Palestinian protests dominated the Vuelta a Espana.
La Vuelta was a Grand Tour which saw a major achievement in Tom Pidcock’s third place, an antidote after the devastating last-minute defeat for 19-year-old Cat Ferguson in the Tour of Britain Women in June.
A British Women’s World Tour win was finally sealed thanks to Anna Henderson’s victory at China’s Tour of Guangxi in October, which also saw Briton Paul Double take the men’s race.
Meanwhile, Simon Yates produced a monumental comeback on the punishing gravel of the Colle delle Finestre to win the Giro d’Italia in May.
