Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar joked that he could now retire happy from cycling after winning the Tour of Flanders classic for the first time on Sunday. Know more:
AUDENARDE, Belgium—Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar joked that he could now retire happy from cycling after winning the Tour of Flanders classic for the first time on Sunday.
The 24-year-old Slovenian clinched victory with a superb solo attack to add Flanders—one of the five “monument races” in one-day cycling—to his glittering list of wins. Pogacar dropped Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel about 18 kilometers from the end of the 273.4-kilometer trek from Bruges to Audenarde and beat him by 16 seconds.
Called “Ronde van Vlaanderen” in Dutch, the Flanders race is renowned for having narrow short hills and cobbles.