POLL | Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel, Mathieu van der Poel... Who will win the men's 2024 Velo d'Or?
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On the 6th of December, the Velo d'Or awards will take place on the Pavillon Gabriel, Paris. This will be the day where the road cyclists of the year award will be given and we take a look at the 10 contenders and their main results throughout the season.
In the list we have two UAE Team Emirates riders in Tadej Pogacar and Marc Hirschi; two Soudal - Quick-Step riders in Remco Evenepoel and Tim Merlier; two Team Visma | Lease a Bike riders in Jonas Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson; and then in addition also Mathieu van der Poel, Biniam Girmay, Primoz Roglic and Ben O'Connor. Logic would dictate that Tadej Pogacar is heading for certain victory after achieving incomparable success over this year when it comes to modern cycling. However it would be easy to forget about Remco Evenepoel incredible season finale which includes double Olympic success, or Mathieu van der Poel's two monuments and two world titles obtained in a single year. The fight for all positions is open and below we rate the best results of the year for each of the candidates:
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) - 1st Tour de France (+6 stage wins); 1st Giro d'Italia (+6 stage wins & KOM classification); Road Race World Championships; Liège-Bastogne-Liège; Il Lombardia; Strade Bianche; 1st Volta a Catalunya (+4 stage wins & Points & KOM classifications); GP de Montréal; Giro dell'Emilia; 3rd Milano-Sanremo.
Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) - 2nd Tour de France (+1 stage win); 1st Tirreno-Adriatico (+2 stage wins); 1st Tour de Pologne; 1st Gran Camiño (+3 stage wins).
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick-Step) - 1st Olympic Games Road Race; 1st Olympic Games Time-Trial; 1st Time-Trial World Championships; 3rd Tour de France (+1 stage win & Youth Classification); 2nd Il Lombardia; 2nd Paris-Nice (+1 stage win); 1st Volta ao Algarve (+1 stage win); 1 stage win Criterium du Dauphiné; Figueira Champions Classic.
Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) - Cyclocross World Championships; Gravel World Championships; Paris-Roubaix; Tour of Flanders; E3 Saxo Classic; 3rd Road Race World Championships; 3rd Liège-Bastogne-Liége; 2nd Gent-Wevelgem.
Biniam Girmay (Intermarché - Wanty) - 3 stage wins Tour de France & Points classification; Circuit Franco-Belge; Surf Coast Classic; 2nd GP de Québec; 3rd BEMER Cyclassics.
Primoz Roglic (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) - Vuelta a España (+3 stage wins); Criterium du Dauphiné (+2 stage wins); 1 stage win Itzulia Basque Country.
Matteo Jorgenson (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) - Paris-Nice; Dwars door Vlaanderen; 2nd Criterium du Dauphiné; 8th Tour de France; 9th Olympic Games Road Race.
Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) - Clásica San Sebastián; Bretagne Classic; Coppa Agostoni; Memorial Marco Pantani; GP Industria & Artigianato; Coppa Sabatini; Fan Drôme Classic; Czech Tour (+1 stage win); 2nd Amstel Gold Race.
Ben O'Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) - 2nd Road Race World Championships; 2nd Vuelta a España (+1 stage win); 2nd UAE Tour; 4th Giro d'Italia; 2nd Tour of the Alps; 5th Tirreno-Adriatico; Vuelta a Murcia.
Tim Merlier (Soudal - Quick-Step) - 3 stage wins Giro d'Italia; Road Race European Championships; Scheldeprijs; Nokere Koerse; Gooikse Pijl; Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen; 3 stage wins UAE Tour; 2 stage wins AlUla Tour; 2 stage wins Baloise Belgium Tour; 1 stage win Tour de Pologne.
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Who will win the 2024 Velo d'Or?
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To anyone suggesting they truly believe someone other than Pog should win this award... give over! Remco and MVDP were awesome but Pog had one of the greatest seasons in history.
who? who? whooooo! oh... Terrible doubts keep me from sleeping! come on... it's absolutely obvious (and deserved) who will win: the best season in the cycling history, even Eddy did not do better...
Only MVdP! The most versatile cyclist of the current times. 3x podium of World Championships in single year - is there anybody even close to him?
🥇 Tadej Pogacar 🇸🇮 🥈 Remco Evenepoel 🇧🇪 🥉 Mathieu Van Der Poel 🇳🇱
yup, that sounds right to me, too. last year i felt like should have been mathieu but seemed as if they just give velo d’or to whoever wins the tour, regardless. this year it’s ALL pogačar. remco’s gold medal sweep was so special he deserves to be recognized for it. maybe some year van der poel will win msr, flanders, roubaix, a couple tdf stages, AND another world road title. that oughta do it.
Yes, pretty good chance of that though it’s kind of insulting to MVDP who has done so much for making cycling about more than just road racing that he’s only ever been nominated to the top 3 once so far but they can’t let him win this year.
Is there any doubt? With a season of Merckxian proportions, it has to be Pogi
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- No. No he cannot.
Barney06-03-2025 - Storer got 3rd place ! Proofread your headline!frieders306-03-2025
- Those are all impressive names on the multi year win streaks. Sure there will be some impressive names missing because of injury, illness or bad luck, but the doesn't reduce the fact that it is impressive to win across a lot of seasons like that.mobk05-03-2025
- Some pro cyclists are little babies, and some people on the sidelines cheer this behavior in the name of "safety"!acem8205-03-2025
- If he wins by 3 minutes, punctures are not in the picture. Only crashesabstractengineer05-03-2025
- maxim is not Pogi's rivalabstractengineer05-03-2025
- Biggest rivals?? Puncturesslappers6605-03-2025
- Statistics say very complicated, is that before or after considering Remco’s setback? In any case, going for it will probably be a good base for maybe winning some other year. No need to force dreams.Mistermaumau05-03-2025
- Bit of a weird list if you compare the “insignificance” of certain wins against others, seems to be equating the latest off-beat village races à la Froome with monuments and WC. Also not really a reflection of talent or quality when injury or crashes can split your career into 2 series of 7 or 8 years to remove you from the list or even top, in that respect it’s interesting to see Primoz is still so high up ;-) Anyway, it’s only active riders, it’s only road results and it’s only pro so no mtb or cyclocross or junior results, a bit like considering winter Olympics aren’t part of the Olympics, which strangely we often do, maybe the time gap is too big for human memory to collate it all?Mistermaumau05-03-2025
- Sounds like it, not only conflict of interest, maybe racketeering, organised crime and corruption? But again, this is from reporters not journalists so it doesn’t really seem to have been investigated yet. If 2nd & 4th and director and jury president are surprised, WHO had the authority and took the decision, who (apart from own team-mates are these “many” riders and which phone card, bank account got credited with unusual sums around those days? That’s just for starters. The fact he’s already been fined seems this all somehow happened through some back alley.Mistermaumau05-03-2025