Pogačar is eyeing a career-first European road title
There are not many events missing from Tadej Pogačar's palmarès, and with that in mind, the Slovenian has added the European Championship road race to his 2025 programme.
The now-four-time Tour de France champion was expected to make his return to the Vuelta a España for the first time since his Grand Tour debut in 2019 with a view to overall victory, but he pulled out after a triumphant but wearing Tour. He was expected to finish his season at Il Lombardia after the Canadian one-days, which he still intends to do, but a week before the fifth Monument, he'll now travel to the Drôme-Ardèche region where the Classics-style European champs road race is too tempting to miss.
Pogačar has raced for the elite continental title once before at the 2021 event in Trento, Italy, finishing fifth in an attritional race won by Sonny Colbrelli from a two-man move with Remco Evenepoel.
