As the 2025 cycling calendar turns toward its final chapter,
\nUAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG stand on the brink of a potential milestone. With the
\nTour de France, Giro d\u2019Italia, and spring classics already behind them, only
\nthe Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, World Championships, and Il Lombardia remain among the
\nseason\u2019s biggest events. The team has already collected 72 victories this year,
\njust nine shy of matching their 2024 total of 81, which ranked as the third
\nmost wins by a professional team in history.<\/p>\n
Their first triumph of 2025 came in January, when Jhonatan
<\/p>\n Pogacar\u2019s remaining schedule for UAE includes the Grand Prix They still have a long way to go, but the combination of The question is no longer whether UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG
\nNarv\u00e1ez took stage five of the Santos Tour Down Under. Most recently, Brandon
\nMcNulty delivered both a time trial stage win and the overall title at the Tour
\nde Pologne. Between those bookends, the team\u2019s roster, led by Tadej Pogacar<\/a>,
\nJuan Ayuso<\/a>, Isaac Del Toro<\/a>, Jo\u00e3o Almeida<\/a>, and others, has dominated the
\nmajority of races they have started. In short, UAE have once again been the
\nteam to beat.The benchmark they are chasing belongs to Team Columbia \u2013 HTC,
\nwho recorded a staggering 87 wins in 2009, a season powered by Mark Cavendish<\/a>\u2019s
\n23 victories, the highest individual tally of that year, with Andr\u00e9 Greipel
\nadding 20 and Edvald Boasson Hagen contributing 12. That same team also holds
\nthe second spot on the all-time list with 82 wins in 2008. UAE\u2019s 2024 total of
\n81 sits just behind, making the prospect of surpassing Columbia \u2013 HTC\u2019s
\nlong-standing record a realistic target for the rest of 2025.<\/p>\n
\nCycliste de Qu\u00e9bec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al, where he will start as
\nfavourite, and Il Lombardia, where he will attempt to claim a fifth consecutive
\nvictory. Ayuso and Almeida are set to lead the team at the Vuelta, where they
\nwill aim to topple Jonas Vingegaard in the general classification while also
\nhunting stage wins.<\/p>\n
\nlate-season one-day races, stage wins at the Vuelta, and the monument in
\nLombardy presents multiple pathways to closing the gap to 87.<\/p>\n
\nare the strongest squad in the peloton; it is whether they can maintain their
\nrelentless winning pace in the season\u2019s closing months. If Pogacar, Ayuso,
\nAlmeida, and their supporting cast deliver as expected, there is a possibility
\nthat 2025 will finally be the year that Columbia \u2013 HTC\u2019s record falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the 2025 cycling calendar turns toward its final chapter, UAE Team Emirates \u2013 XRG stand on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-61109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}