Pogačar joins Louison Bobet and Eddy Merckx as the only riders to have won both the Tour de France and Tour of Flanders cycling
Those were the words of Tadej Pogačar this week ahead of the Tour of Flanders, a race he did come to the finish alone in and a race he did indeed also win, not bad for a man who was stillIn scenes that will live long in the memory, the Slovenian 24-year-old, who now has two Tour de France titles and four Monuments to his name, attacked pre-race favourite Mathieu van der Poel on the final ascent of the Oude Kwaremont, nobody else in the lead group able to follow.
It was a day fraught with danger from the off, the breakaway taking many nervy kilometres to form and Van der Poel briefly behind a split, his teammates forced to burn matches just to get their leader back in the peloton. With the wicked narrow Molenberg came the first big move of the race, a group including Powless, Asgreen, Stefan Küng, Fred Wright, Mads Pedersen and Matteo Trentin riding clear, joining up with the breakaway and building a dangerous three-minute advantage over those in the peloton.
Under 30km to go and the gap to the front still around 40 seconds, Pedersen attacked from the lead group and seconds later Van der Poel from the chase, Van Aert unable to follow his great rival and Pogačar.
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