Tadej Pogacar won the Tour of Flanders this Sunday. For an eighth victory in a cycling monument.
The duel was expectedTwo weeks after Mathieu Van der Poel’s victory over Milan-Sanremo before Tadej Pogacar. In this Tour of Flanders 2025 high -flying, it is the Slovenian who won, taking revenge on his rival and his transalpine disappointment.
Mathieu Van der Poel, three times winner already on the round, could legitimately consider himself a natural favorite of the day. Only the interested party played bad luck being caught in an ugly fall in the first part of the race, then betrayed by a facetious wind. If he only lost a minute on Tadej Pogacar in this misadventure, putting hardly only 10 kilometers to start back, the Batavian has thus left valuable forces in the battle.
In the ultimate fight for winning, the Slovenian made the difference with brilliance. It is in the famous old Quaremont at 18 terminals of the goal that the interested party wore the estocade, sowing competition to win with 1’01 ahead of Mads Pérdersen and Mathieu Van der Poel, who ranks out of the Top 2 on the Tour des Flanders for the first time since 2020 – Wout Van Aert finishing fourth in the same second.
Pogacar, proof by 8
Of the five monuments in cycling (Milan-San Remo, the Tour des Flandres, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour de Lombardie), Tadej Pogacar displays three to its record, for a total of eight success and with the Ronde on its credit twice.
If Milan-Sanremo missed a fortnight ago, the Slovenian virtuoso will try to unlock a new monument next week during Paris-Roubaix. Mathieu Van der Poel once again will be his first rival. Strongly next Sunday!
