Cycling, Pogacar king of the Monuments. But a gaffe arrives at the ATP in Monte Carlo

Rome, 8 April 2025 - The challenge of this season in the Classical Monument It seems to be the sole responsibility of Tadej pogacar e Mathieu van der Poel: the momentary head to head reads 1-1, with the Dutchman winning the Milan-Sanremo 2025 and the very recent Slovenian winner of the Giro delle Fiandre 2025The latter also prevails in the total calculation, which stops at 8-7 waiting for the next round, that of the Paris-Roubaix 2025 di Sunday April 13.  

Pogacar's Monument Classics Stats

  Of course, if the runner's goal isUAE Team Emirates-XRG are the 19 Monument won by Eddy Merckx, the road is still long for him and for all the others. In the all-time rankings, the world champion is currently seventh, tied with Rik Van Looy and just one success away from Fausto coppi, Constant Girardengo e Sean Kelly. If these are statistics relating to the amount of victories, where pogacar shines when it comes to continuity, well photographed by some percentages. Starting from the podiums, in 17 participations, the Slovenian climbed onto the podium 11 times higher, with a frightening percentage of 64,7%. If the count is triggered after the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2019 , Milan-Sanremo 2020, respectively the first appearances in the two races, the percentage even soars to 73%. Moving on to the victories, 8 triumphs su 17 tokens they mean 47%, that becomes 50% if we only consider the completed races: the only retirement of pogacar in a Monument is what happened to the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2023, when a fall caused him to fracture his wrist which would slow down his preparation also in view of the next one Tour de France 2023. If you want to be right about the second places, curiously the Slovenian's count is stuck at a clean zero. Speaking of zero: on the story between pogacar , Paris-Roubaix There is little to say today, with the debut expected next Sunday. The Slovenian's 'worst' record is the one related to the Milan-Sanremo: 5 participations and as a best result the third places collected in the last two editions. The opposite is the Milan-Sanremo, in which the native of Command boasts an extraordinary 100% of victories over 4 tokens, from 2021 al 2024 included. For the Tour of Flanders, won in 2023 and in 2025, we move on to a 66% in which the fourth place of the 2022while for the Liège-Bastogne-Liège the successes of the 2021 and 2024 su 5 appearances stop the current count at a 40%.

Pogacar's Monte Carlo Misadventure

  Apparently, the relationship between the two is much more complicated. pogacar and tennis. Monday April 7 Slovenian, resident in Montecarlo, took a free afternoon to watch the match between Lorenzo Mustetti e Bu Yunchaokete, valid for the first round of theAtp 1000The world champion showed up late at the camp dedicated to the King Rainier III of Monaco and tried to take his place without waiting for the change of sides or the end of the set. pogacar he came in while Bu he was about to serve, receiving two rebukes in one fell swoop: one from the Chinese player and the next from the chair umpire Aurelie Tourte. Instead, it is smiling musetti, who won the match in a comeback, confessing to having found the right energy right after having spotted (the undisciplined) pogacar in the stands.

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