Strade Bianche 2025
This year’s Strade Bianche can be summarized in two bullet points:
- Tadej went looking for berries in the ditch, way too early in the season. Luckily his crash didn’t ruin his season, nor his chances to win this race. He “only” suffered a few scratches all over his body, a cut on his hand, and a ruined rainbow jersey kit.
- All it took was one attack on the Colle Pinzuto gravel sector to drop Tom Pidcock for the victory. Viva il re, Tadej!
With Tadej Pogacar in the peloton, professional men cycling has become boring.
He’s just too strong! - Wilfried Peeters (That quote was a decade ago in reference to Fabian Cancellara. It definitely applies now to Pogacar.)
If you want to see some excitement this year, look for Tadej and Mathieu in de Ronde van Vlaanderen, and when Tadej isn’t participating.
I doubt that Jonas Vinegaard and team Visma-Lease-a-bike can challenge the almighty UAE team and Tadej in the Tour de France. Also for Remco Evenepoel, the difference is big, with the new cannibal, a reference used for Tadej, to the goat, Eddy Merckx.