Tadej Pogacar's 2024 season not enough for Sportsman of the Year - But Tom Pidcock wins major trophy at Laureus awards
CyclingTuesday, 22 April 2025 at 10:15
A few weeks ago the nominees for the Laureus World Sports Awards were revealed and fans of cycling could deposit their hopes on two riders who performed very well during the 2024 season: Tadej Pogacar and Tom Pidcock. One of them has won the category they had been nominated to, however it wasn't the one most would be expecting.
Pogacar's staggering 2024 included victories at the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, World Championships, Liège-Bastoge-Liège, Il Lombardia and much more. It was truly a season that could not be matched in the perspective of modern time cyclists, and perhaps the only comparable season in the history of the sport came from the benchmark of Eddy Merckx many decades ago.
Naturally the Slovenian was part of the Sportsman of the Year list together with Tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, Pole Vaulter Mondo Duplantis, Formula 1 Driver Max Verstappen and swimmer Léon Marchand. Duplantis was the winner of this award whilst USA's Simone Billes won in the women's category.
Real Madrid won the World Team of the year, Rebeca Andrade won Comeback of the Year, Lamine Yamal won Breakthrough of the Year and lastly in the World Action Sportsperson of the Year award there was a British victory with Tom Pidcock's name on it.
Although on the road the Briton's season was at best rocky, with a victory at Amstel Gold Race being the highlight of the year, the award majorly rewarded his achievements off-road which of course included a second Olympic Mountain Bike title at the age of 25.
Pidcock's ability to switch disciplines and be incredibly successful off-road did not go unnoticed, and he has been awarded for what was another spectacular triumph in the discipline where he continues to pile on success. This season with Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, on the road at least, he has already gone off to take several wins and most noticeably be a great rival to Pogacar himself at Strade Bianche.
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The Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year is Tom Pidcock 🏆#Laureus25 pic.twitter.com/GGFzOnSWL1
— Laureus (@LaureusSport) April 21, 2025
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- I'd win so much money off Blythe on this one!bobo07-05-2025
- "The Giro d'Italia 2024 saw a strong increase in audience figures across RAI networks, especially on Rai2 and RaiSport HD. The race also experienced a significant boost in online engagement, with record numbers of website visitors, video views, and media articles. The event reached over 700 million viewers worldwide...." Sorry, but Pogacar is boring only for ... envious? ex-riders.
maria2024202406-05-2025 - It's always the way in pro cycling - 1 rider wins and the rest,instead of working with each other to topple the better rider, they ride behind said rider collecting scraps that're left...
leedorney06-05-2025 - Better for the Giro? I'm sure viewers would rather see Tadej dominate the Giro from day 1, than see Van Hooydonck (if he were still racing for Visma) battle it out with whoever, maybe Uidtjebroeks (if he was in the Visma lineup).. pun not intended ,for the maglia rosa in the 21-day race.. A grand tour is not like a horse race. People want to see Tadej, Jonas, Remco, Primoz, MVDP, Van Aert etc... If not, I'll just watch the Tour of California.FredMan06-05-2025
- Respect to Caleb Ewan for making the decision to bow out of professional cycling. He's the only one that's knows what's best for him at this point in his life, and I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.
santiagobenites06-05-2025 - Yeah, a big one 😁
DareDevil06-05-2025 - That's a surpriseleedorney06-05-2025
- You were doing so well up until the last paragraph :-). So Almeida did not win a single stage race with UAE and now because of contract uplift he can win prestigious races? Come on. The man was being shaped to get to this level and took 2 years. After leaving QS he had lost his punch, he is not a sprinter of course but he had a good kick, he also lost a bit his TT performance, was a disaster going downhill. All this time he was improving his climbing and now he is recovering all the aforementioned qualities he had before. He is not putting on a show because of contract negotiations, he simply evolved also due to changing trainer. I think he will do a hat-trick in Tour de Suisse and then go with no pressure to the Tour. Depending on how well Jonas or Remco recover and how tired Roglic is from the Giro, a podium might fall on his lap. Then Vuelta maybe UAE can compensate his performance by making him the solo leader if Pogacar is doubting. However, where I am really interested to see Almeida is the World Championships. I am hoping the race is split early and then we see Almeida picking up corpses along the Rwanda streets up until he reaches an empty Pogacar and then tips him over the line. Then I wake up and life continues.Indioshak06-05-2025
- Jonas had also had a speed wobble on that same descent. They have both improved their descending skills since then, and in 2024 took scary risks on downhills.Hill3306-05-2025
- Should be a good one! It's been since 2022 since we have seen peak Pogi vs peak Vingo. 2023 Pogi had injuries and a suboptimal preparation. 2024 Vingo had even worse injuries and a poor runup to the Tour. UAE team has gotten stronger since 2022, while Visma maybe less strong.mobk06-05-2025
Would be interesting to see the profile of voters.