Tadej Pogačar wins Tour of Flanders solo

Mathieu van der Poel and Wout Van Aert battled valiantly but were eventually distanced

Tadej Pogačar wins Tour of Flanders 2025
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World Champion Tadej Pogačar has won the Tour of Flanders for a second time after a ding-dong battle with spring rival Mathieu van der Poel.

The Slovenian had tried over-and-over to distance the Dutchman but Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) had stuck to his wheel throughout until Pogačar finally snapped the elastic on the penultimate climb of the day.

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Having trained as a journalist at Cardiff University I spent eight years working as a business journalist covering everything from social care, to construction to the legal profession and riding my bike at the weekends and evenings. When a friend told me Cycling Weekly was looking for a news editor, I didn't give myself much chance of landing the role, but I did and joined the publication in 2016. Since then I've covered Tours de France, World Championships, hour records, spring classics and races in the Middle East. On top of that, since becoming features editor in 2017 I've also been lucky enough to get myself sent to ride my bike for magazine pieces in Portugal and across the UK. They've all been fun but I have an enduring passion for covering the national track championships. It might not be the most glamorous but it's got a real community feeling to it.

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