{"id":191612,"date":"2025-10-05T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191612\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:27:08","slug":"tadej-pogacar-races-to-maiden-continental-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/191612\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar races to maiden continental title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshly minted world champion <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/tadej-pogacar\" 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noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> added a maiden continental crown to his palmar\u00e8s with his dominant win at the 2025 UEC Road European Championships on Sunday (5 October).<\/p>\n<p>The win comes a week after the Slovenian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/sports\/cycling-road\/\" 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noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road cycling<\/a> star clinched a second straight world title with a supreme performance in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>It was vintage Poga\u010dar on Sunday as he set out on his solo ride on the final ascent of the C\u00f4te de Saint-Romain-de-Lerps with 75km to go.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s two-time Olympic champ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/remco-evenepoel\" 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noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Remco Evenepoel<\/a> initially stuck to Poga\u010dar\u2019s wheel but could not keep up with the flying Slovenian.<\/p>\n<p>Poga\u010dar opened a 30-second gap on the chasing pack spearheaded by Evenepoel, which was narrowed to close to 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Tour de France champion found his rhythm as he opened a near-unassailable one-minute lead on the chasers.<\/p>\n<p>At the bell for the final lap, Poga\u010dar held a one-minute and two-second lead over Evenepoel with 17km left on the course.<\/p>\n<p>But the Belgian rider could not reel in the flying Slovenian and had to settle for the silver medal as he crossed the line 31 seconds adrift. The 19-year-old Paul Seixas raced home in third place, 3:41 behind Poga\u010dar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freshly minted world champion Tadej Poga\u010dar added a maiden continental crown to his palmar\u00e8s with his dominant win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-191612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191612","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=191612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}