Tadej Poga\u010dar claimed the European title in France on Sunday, despite some nasty actions from roadside spectators.<\/p>\n
The Slovenian attacked early and rode solo for much of the race, facing fans who placed stickers on his back, made kicking gestures, and even exposed themselves. Footage shows two men attempting to distract him on the Val d\u2019Enfer climb, but Poga\u010dar ignored them.<\/p>\n
Pogi followed up his world championships victory in Kigali with a 75-km solo ride to claim his first European title in France. The 202-kilometre course started in Privas, featuring the Col du Moulin \u00e0 Vent, multiple laps including the C\u00f4te de Saint-Romain-de-Lerps, and finishing on the steep C\u00f4te de Val d\u2019Enfer.<\/p>\n
Tadej Poga\u010dar tries something totally new with massive solo breakaway<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n With 77 km remaining, Jonas Vingegaard abandoned, and Poga\u010dar launched his decisive attack. Remco Evenepoel briefly held his wheel before dropping back to ride solo for a podium spot. Behind them, Christian Scaroni, Paul Seixas and Juan Ayuso battled for the final medals, with Seixas surging on the last climb to claim bronze.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s race on Saturday, it was Dutchwoman Demi Vollering<\/a> that took the white-and-blue jersey, in front of Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma, with the Netherlands\u2019 Anna van der Breggen taking third.<\/p>\n The situation with Poga\u010dar is just the latest in fan-related incidents in recent years. During the \u2018cross season, Mathieu van der Poel has been the repeated victim of fans throwing beer at him. In the finale of his solo E3 Saxo Classic victory, a spectator, presumed to be Belgian, spat on Dutch star van der Poel. He didn\u2019t react during the race but commented afterward: \u201cThere are people who shouldn\u2019t watch. But I can\u2019t change that myself.\u201d He added<\/a>, \u201cThat it keeps happening? Unfortunately, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n There was also the strange time at Paris-Roubaix when a spectator threw a cap into his wheel. Thankfully the Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck rider was fine.<\/p>\n With the Euros over, the pro road season is winding down. There is still the last big race of the year\u2014and the final monument on Saturday, Il Lombardia. Poga\u010dar will be going for his fifth win at the Italian classic. You can catch all the action on FloBikes.com<\/a>, and Canadian Cycling Magazine will have a full report with photos after.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, check out these idiots below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Affiliate links present. Canadian Cycling Magazine may receive commissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar claimed the European title in France on Sunday, despite some nasty actions from roadside spectators. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[96175,49,48,635,19488,13633,5901,82,1422],"class_list":["post-193022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2025-european-continental-championships","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-demi-vollering","tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-remco-evenepoel","tag-sports","tag-tadej-pogacar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193022","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=193022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}