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<\/p>\nThe Slovenian superstar is the five-star favorite to win a second world title, but could an outsider pull off the shocker? His own UAE teammates might be his most dangerous rivals. <\/p>\n
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Evenepoel is a threat to win the road title. (Photo: Dario Belingheri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Published September 27, 2025 01:29PM<\/p>\n
The UCI road cycling world championships<\/a> reach a crescendo Sunday with the elite men\u2019s road race.<\/p>\n After a week of thrilling races, often times producing some surprising winners, the big question for Sunday is can anyone stop Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a>?<\/p>\n The defending champion is looking to cap what\u2019s been a near-perfect season with a title defense in Kigali. And while he faltered in the time trial, he rarely misses on cycling\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n Could Poga\u010dar misread the race?<\/p>\n Remco Evenepoel<\/a> looms as the biggest threat. Juan Ayuso<\/a> brings confidence, and Mexico\u2019s Isaac del Toro is the wild card unknown. Ben Healy could be the outlier no one\u2019s thinking of, while Team USA will count on Kevin Vermaerke and Quinn Simmons<\/a> to go deep.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s elite men\u2019s road race in Kigali could be one of the toughest in world championship history. The 268km circuit packs nearly 6,000 meters of climbing, with the C\u00f4te de Kimihurura will up the lactate lap after lap.<\/p>\n Cook up some popcorn and kick back, because this one will almost be seven hours long.<\/p>\n Day 1 \u2013 Sunday, September 21<\/p>\n Women Elite Individual Time Trial: Marlen Reussen<\/a> Day 2 \u2013 Monday, September 22<\/p>\n Women Under-23 Individual Time Trial: Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt<\/a> Day 3 \u2013 Tuesday, September 23<\/p>\n Women Junior Individual Time Trial: Megan Arens<\/a> Day 4 \u2013 Wednesday, September 24<\/p>\n Mixed Relay Team Time Trial: Australia<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Day 5 \u2013 Thursday, September 25<\/p>\n Women Under-23 Road Race: C\u00e9lia Gery<\/a><\/p>\n Day 6 \u2013 Friday, September 26<\/p>\n Men Junior Road Race: Harry Hudson<\/a> Day 7 \u2013 Saturday, September 27<\/p>\n Women Junior Road Race: Paula Ostiz<\/a> Day 8 \u2013 Sunday, September 28<\/p>\n 09:45 \u2013 Men Elite Road Race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Slovenian superstar is the five-star favorite to win a second world title, but could an outsider pull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,54263,82,88388,62849,68115,70573,54266,54267],"class_list":["post-174799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-tag-juan-ayuso","tag-tag-quinn-simmons","tag-tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Men Elite Individual Time Trial: Remco Evenepoel<\/a><\/p>\n
Men Under-23 Individual Time Trial: Jakob S\u00f6derqvist<\/a><\/p>\n
Men Junior Individual Time Trial: Michiel Mouris<\/a><\/p>\n
Men Under-23 Road Race: Lorenzo Finn<\/a><\/p>\n
Women Elite Road Race: Magdeleine Vallieres<\/a><\/p>\n