Securing a successful season on just your second race day: Tadej Pogacar pulled it off on Saturday. The Slovenian rider from UAE Team Emirates-XRG managed to win Milan-Sanremo in spectacular fashion—a race that was at the very top of his wish list.

Britain’s Tom Pidcock admitted it “hurt to be so close” after he was pipped by just 4cm by world champion Tadej Pogacar in an extraordinary Milan-San Remo.

Here is a loose rule that you can use to determine whether or not Tadej Pogacar is going to win a bike race: If you can see the flank of an asscheek protruding through his tattered skinsuit, nobody is beating him.

Anyone who thought Milan-Sanremo had already reached peak madness with the 2025 edition was proved wrong this year. Tadej Pogacar did the near-impossible and won La Primavera despite crashing hard shortly before the Cipressa.

Tadej Pogacar proved his class again in a high-quality with another solo ride en route to a major cycling trophy at the European championships in France on Sunday. Slovenia's Pogacar left time trial world, Olympic and continental champion Remco Evenepoel ...

Tadej Pogacar's victory on Saturday at Milan–San-Remo places the Slovenian rider in a position to potentially win all five Monuments in a single season — a feat that no cyclist has ever accomplished.

As the months, weeks and days leading up to Milan-Sanremo went by, it became increasingly clear that the signs were not especially favourable for Tadej Pogacar in his ongoing quest to win La Primavera.