Tadej Pogacar wins UAE Tour with dominant solo triumph at Jebel Hafeet
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The UAE Tour has come to an end and the winner doesn't come as a surprise. Tadej Pogacar was the man to beat throughout the whole week, and he performed as expected. Today he won stage 7 with a comfortable solo victory at Jebel Hafeet, the race's queen stage.
The stage started off the way several others ended, with a mass crash. Chris Froome, Arvid de Kleijn and Niklas Behrens were among those involved and forced to abandon the race, whilst Carlos Rodríguez already failed to start the stage due to a collarbone fracture from a previous crash.
The breakaway of the day consisted of 12 riders including the likes of Jonathan Milan and Alexey Lutsenko who tried to surprise his GC rivals. But as it would turn out, the group would be caught very early on as Soudal - Quick-Step and Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe triggered echelons on a day where the wind blew hard.
A few of the day's main favourites such as Lennert van Eetvelt and Felix Gall were not part of the front group, but Pogacar was, as well as a few more GC contenders. Milan went on to win the intermediate sprints and seal the poitns classification, and when the climb to Jebel Hafeet started Florian Vermeersch and Rune Herregodts put themselves in front, splitting the group to only about a dozen riders, and Tadej Pogacar then launched his attack with over 7 kilometers to go.
The World Champion was at first followed by Oscar Onley and Giulio Ciccone, but quickly dropped the two and went on to win at Jebel Hafeet once again, confirming at the same time the expected overall win.
Behind Onley would crack, and Pello Bilbao jumped from behind to catch up with Giulio Ciccone. The Italian would win the sprint for second place; whilst the likes of Iván Romeo, Oscar Onley and Finn Fisher-Black finished amongst the first.
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- Great picture, so alike and yet so different, Mads has the physique of a weekend amateur in comparison. You have to wonder how much better he could still be. I know it’s difficult not to be taken in by MVDP’s performances but it feels like reporting loses some of its purpose as a result, compared to other teams, we hardly hear about the Alpecin in-race work or riders.Mistermaumau30-03-2025
- agreed. flanders is a beast. i like tadej, but i’m full on rooting for mathieu next sunday.OCexile29-03-2025
- Indeed, strong as ever on the flat, maybe stronger on climbs. There are very few records within reach for contemporary riders (Cabendish had to extend his career to get his and took twice as long as Merckx to equality), this would be one that would be very hard to take away.Mistermaumau29-03-2025
- I thought newspeak was condensing any statement into the smallest number of pertinent words.Mistermaumau29-03-2025
- flanders is mvdp’s favorite race and he’s one win away from being the lone record holder with 4 wins. i’d be very surprised if the gap that pogačar opened in him there 2 years ago wasn’t THE major focus of all his training. and when mathieu has a goal, he turns himself inside out to achieve it. we’ll see next week if he got there, but i’d agree with van avermat’s assessment of van der poel’s fitness.OCexile29-03-2025
- It’s almost like newspeak. It’s classics season, Pogacar’s main rival has always been van der Poel. Then grand tour season will begin, and we will pivot mid sentence and Pogacar’s main rival will have always been Vingegaard. What a season this promises to be. Let’s hope they stay healthy (and Vingegaard gets past the concussion).RidesHills29-03-2025
- Great that he’s decided to do Flanders though his weight remark is irrelevant, Mads is proportionately heavier and MVDP has the same weight but is around 10cm shorter.Mistermaumau29-03-2025
- Yeah, looks slow up there.Jumpyjohn28-03-2025
- lol His aim was well off! MVP was well past him before the guy decided to spit.Cyclingsbestfan28-03-2025
- But you know that’s what makes this website live ;-)Mistermaumau28-03-2025