The incredible statistic that Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel and Remco Evenepoel have created in pro cycling
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Since the 2022 season, only six riders have won a monument, World Championship or Olympic Game race. This adds to a total of 20 races, and out of these 17 have been won by either Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel.
There have been only three exceptions to this 'rule': Matej Mohoric winning the 2022 Milano-Sanremo, Dylan van Baarle winning the 2022 Paris-Roubaix and Jasper Philipsen winning the 2024 Milano-Sanremo.
Shockingly, only three riders have won every single other monument, World Championship and Olympic Games event - the most important one-day races in the cycling world. Mathieu van der Poel, freshly a winner of his second Milano-Sanremo, has also won the Tour of Flanders on two occasions within these years, he has won the past two editions of Paris-Roubaix and also won the Glasgow World Championships in Glasgow.
Remco Evenepoel on his hand also won the World Championships Road Race back in 2022 with a stunning solo attack, this past summer he has become Olympic Champion in Paris and he has also won Liège-Bastogne-Liège on the two occasions that he has raced it - 2023 and 2024.
Lastly Tadej Pogacar, who is racking up these kinds of wins more than most riders do average wins, has already built up a palmarès consisting of the following: World Championships Zurich 2024, a Liège-Bastogne-Liège title, a Tour of Flanders title and four Il Lombardia editions (*just from 2021 onwards).
Whilst different tactics are now more functionally succeeding in pro cycling, as well shown by Pogacar's Cipressa attack this weekend which saw the climb decide the race for the first time in almost 30 years, we are set to have the same faces battle for the upcoming monuments. Whilst the likes of Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen promise to deliver strong performances, Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar feel like the ultimate favourites for the Tour of Flanders. Tadej Pogacar will be the main favourite for Liège once again as it stands and at Paris-Roubaix both van der Poel and Philipsen have finished first and second over the past two editions.
Although it is definitely possible that at Il Lombardia a new winner will be crowned, the World Champion at this point has already won the past four editions and if he steps on the start line once again it will be complicated for anyone to enter this exclusive list of riders.
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