Tadej Pogacar spent 2025 doing exactly what he did in 2024: destroying the competition. A fourth Tours de France title, three Monuments in a single season, back-to-back world titles, and a maiden European crown: the Slovenian superstar is moving closer and closer to GOAT status. He didn’t just win, he bent very different races (white roads, bergs, Alpine giants, Kigali’s walls, Lombardy’s rollers) to the same conclusion. Only Mathieu van der Poel, and Remco Evenepoel on a time trial bike, were able to get the best of him at any point this year.
On the Passo di Ganda, 37km from Bergamo, Pogacar did what only he seems able to do: stand the race on its head and ride home alone. The win made him the first rider ever to take Lombardia five straight, delivered his 10th Monument, and capped a year in which he also stood on the podium at all five Monuments, numbers that pull his name closer to Merckx and Coppi rather than his own generation.
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