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News By Miles CooperMarch 9, 2025

Epic Showdown: Pogačar and Pidcock Battle It Out at Men’s Strade Bianche

Epic Showdown: Pogačar and Pidcock Battle It Out at Men’s Strade Bianche
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2025-03-08T16:11:08.577Z

Epic Showdown: Pogačar and Pidcock Battle It Out at Men’s Strade Bianche

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Some other day, some other Pogačar victory, however it wasn’t moderately as easy as that sounds.

Thank you for becoming a member of us lately, for what guarantees to be an exciting Spring. Subsequent up in a fortnight’s time is Milan-Sanremo, a race Pogačar has but to win, and the place he’ll arise in opposition to the mighty Mathieu van der Poel for his or her first showdown of the spring. It has the possible to be an improbable version.

2025-03-08T16:05:45.257Z

On one hand, this was once the primary time for a very long time that Pogačar has appeared susceptible, and, after the whole thing went so easily with nearly no errors or misfortune all the way through all of ultimate 12 months, a reminder of ways issues can pass improper in biking. 

Then again, he possibly appears simply as invincible as ever. After profitable via one of these giant margin regardless of having fallen, you get started to wonder whether there’s any means that Pogačar can  be overwhelmed.

2025-03-08T15:58:22.502Z

2025-03-08T15:57:42.254Z

Team UAE's Slovenain rider Tadej Pogacar celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 19th one-day classic 'Strade Bianche' (White Roads) men's cycling race between Siena and Siena in Tuscany on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

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2025-03-08T15:53:08.339Z

Here is the remainder of the highest ten after Healy:

5 Bilbao

6 Cort

7 Vermeersch

8 Valgren

9 Van Eetvelt

10 Adrià

2025-03-08T15:51:24.069Z

That is the primary time we have ever observed a rider dressed within the rainbow stripes pass the road in first position on the males’s Strade Bianche, and the primary time a rider has defended his identify right here. Identical to ultimate 12 months, Pogačar continues to wreck document after document. 

2025-03-08T15:45:15.274Z

Ben Healy finishes 4th, at 3-22. That is a profession excessive finishes at this race for the Irishman. 

2025-03-08T15:44:19.444Z

Pogačar was once looking forward to his teammate on the end, and the 2 have a good time in combination. 

2025-03-08T15:43:47.819Z

Wellens finishes 3rd, at 2-11 from his teammate.

2025-03-08T15:43:29.863Z

Now right here comes Wellens for 3rd.

2025-03-08T15:42:58.798Z

Pidcock crosses the road now for moment, 1-23 in the back of. 

2025-03-08T15:41:59.612Z

At the back of, Pidcock is at the climb, about to seal moment. 

2025-03-08T15:41:45.464Z
POGACAR WINS

2025-03-08T15:41:37.499Z

He is easing up as he approaches the end, to benefit from the birthday party.

2025-03-08T15:39:31.883Z
1KM TO GO

Pogačar’s high-fiving spectators as he begins the climb.

2025-03-08T15:39:05.082Z

His profitable margin goes to faded compared to the 2-44 he received ultimate 12 months’s via, however remains to be going to be very giant – particularly while you imagine the whole thing he needed to covercome to get into this place.

2025-03-08T15:38:16.144Z

Ultimate 2km for Pogačar. He will be hiking By means of Santa Caterina imminently.

2025-03-08T15:35:13.828Z

Team UAE's slovenain rider Tadej Pogacar rides as he leads the race during the 19th one-day classic Strade Bianche (White Roads) men's cycling race between Siena and Siena in Tuscany on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

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2025-03-08T15:34:42.717Z

Issues are taking a look excellent for Pidcock when it comes to conserving on for moment position. Wellens has stopped making inroads, and is 45 seconds in the back of.

2025-03-08T15:34:05.377Z
5KM TO GO

1-06 for Pogačar over Pidcock. 

2025-03-08T15:33:31.782Z

Healy is now transparent and on my own in 4th position. He attacked Bilbao and Adrià on Le Tolfe.

2025-03-08T15:31:54.629Z

Pogačar’s lead is such that he’ll be capable to savour the crowds expecting him in Siena, on the now-iconic By means of Santa Caterina climb to Piazza del Campo.

2025-03-08T15:28:38.191Z

Here is the placement as we head into the finale:

Tadej Pogačar

1-08

Tom Pidcock

1-44

Tim Wellens

2-49

Roger Adrià

Pello Bilbao

Ben Healy

2025-03-08T15:27:03.857Z
10KM TO GO

Over a minute now between Pogačar and Pidcock.  Pidcock will likely be pondering extra about what is in the back of him that forward, with Wellens now inside 40 seconds of him.

2025-03-08T15:26:13.196Z

Pogačar is out the saddle and taking a look as robust as ever. That crash does not appear to have affected him in any respect.

2025-03-08T15:24:26.315Z

Pogačar’s safely via Le Tolfe. Simply 12km left for him to experience now.

2025-03-08T15:22:26.506Z
LE TOLFE

One ultimate stretch of gravel for Pogačar to finish now. He leads via 50 seconds.

2025-03-08T15:20:58.206Z

Pidcock will have to no less than be excellent for second-place – even though that is not assured. He is 45 seconds forward of Wellens, who’s over 20 seconds forward of the remainder of Healy, Bilbao and Adrià.

2025-03-08T15:20:02.368Z

40 seconds now for Pogačar. The space is getting larger and larger.

2025-03-08T15:17:54.702Z

He is completed Colle Pinzuto, leaving him with only one sector to move.

2025-03-08T15:17:34.232Z

Now 30 seconds for Pogačar. He is motoring to victory as soon as once more.

2025-03-08T15:17:05.982Z

Swift has been dropped, leaving Bilbao, Healy and Adrià to chase Wellens. 

2025-03-08T15:16:20.007Z

Within the chase crew in the back of, Pogačar’s teammate Wellens assaults and has an opening.

2025-03-08T15:15:04.183Z

17 seconds now. Even battered and bruised, Pogačar is unstoppable.

2025-03-08T15:14:23.917Z

Very quickly Pogačar  has unfolded an opening of 12 seconds.

2025-03-08T15:13:51.643Z

Pogačar’s long gone, he is distanced Pidcock!

2025-03-08T15:13:23.518Z

Pidcock is dropping the wheel…

2025-03-08T15:13:11.907Z

Pogačar assaults!

2025-03-08T15:12:58.668Z
COLLE PINZUTO

Onto the penlultimate sector now.

2025-03-08T15:12:35.724Z

Pogačar and Pidcock are at the ultimate loop, because of this they have simply long gone previous the nook the previous crashed on. He is via it safely this time.

2025-03-08T15:11:29.437Z
20KM TO GO

The race has settled down for now. Pogačar and Pidcock lead the chasing 5 via 57 seconds, and the next chase crew via 1-59.

2025-03-08T15:10:18.383Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 LR Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia and UAE Team EmiratesXRG and Tom Pidcock of The United Kingdom and Q365 Pro Cycling Team compete in the breakaway while fans cheers during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Fabio Ferrari PoolGetty Images

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2025-03-08T15:07:31.715Z

Pidcock led from a lot of the sphere and, even though now not attacking, did glance extra at ease than Pogačar.

2025-03-08T15:04:36.986Z
MONTECHIARO

The leaders are onto the 3rd to ultimate sector now, Montechiaro. There are numerous downhill stretches right here – will Pidcock glance to place him below force?

2025-03-08T15:01:57.925Z

Whilst it stays most unlikely that the 2 teams will come in combination, it does recommend that the main duo aren’t going too smartly – and subsequently that Pogačar is certainly now not feeling his very best after that crash.

2025-03-08T15:00:00.314Z

Nowadays, the chase crew is transferring faster than the main duo. The space has come all the way down to below one minute for the primary time in a very long time.

2025-03-08T14:57:20.072Z
30KM TO GO

The breakup of the damage has given actual impetus to the lead chase crew. The ones 5 riders are operating smartly in combination, and feature decreased their deficit to the leaders to 1-15, and are 30 seconds forward of the second one chase crew.

2025-03-08T14:54:47.390Z

15 seconds between the ones 5 riders and the remainder of the chasers – Vermeersch, Van Eetvelt, Cort and Valgren.

2025-03-08T14:52:56.996Z

Healy, Wellens, Bilbao and Adrià have long gone transparent from the remaining. They have stuck as much as Swift.

2025-03-08T14:51:59.634Z

It is all breaking apart in that chase crew. Healy is attacking on an uphill stretch. 

2025-03-08T14:51:30.195Z

Swift is suffering now, best 10 seconds forward of the chasers.

2025-03-08T14:48:39.405Z

Swift was once very unlucky with how the crash panned out. He was once 3rd in line when it took place, and so misplaced Pidcock’s wheel when Pogačar fell. As such he’s now in no-man’s land, and is prone to sooner or later be stuck via the chase crew, which is these days 30 seconds in the back of him.

2025-03-08T14:46:59.577Z

Team UAE's slovenain rider Tadej Pogacar rides as he sustains an injury on his arm after a crash during the 19th one-day classic Strade Bianche (White Roads) men's cycling race between Siena and Siena in Tuscany on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

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You’ll see right here the wear and tear incurred via Pogačar. It kind of feels most commonly superficial, however he should be hurting. If the adrenaline wears off, he’s not going to be moderately as sturdy as same old, and so Pidcock has a possibility right here.

2025-03-08T14:45:10.177Z

Slovenian Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates pictured after a crash during the men elite 'Strade Bianche' one day cycling race, 213km from and to Siena, Italy on Saturday 08 March 2025. BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM (Photo by DIRK WAEM / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP)

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The fallen Tadej Pogačar. An overly uncommon second when the Slovenian appears susceptible.

2025-03-08T14:42:58.412Z
STRADE DEL CASTAGNO

Pogačar and Pidcock are at the thirteenth phase now, Strada del Castagno.

2025-03-08T14:41:50.540Z
40KM TO GO

1 minute now between the main duo and Swift, and 1-35 between them and the chasing crew.

2025-03-08T14:40:44.645Z

Within the chase crew, Vermeersch is striking at the force. He’s stretched the gang out, however it kind of feels no one has been distanced.

2025-03-08T14:39:17.907Z

The pair stays in combination as they succeed in the tip of the sphere. Will that be the case once more after they go back to Le Tolfe in 30km?

2025-03-08T14:38:41.244Z

Pidcock is main the duo in this sector.

2025-03-08T14:37:58.751Z

There are massive crowds lining the street on Le Tolfe.

2025-03-08T14:37:34.329Z
LE TOLFE

Pogačar and Pidcock are on Le Tolfe. That is the primary of two occasions they are going to do that one – the following time, it will be the ultimate of the race.

2025-03-08T14:36:07.832Z

Again in the back of, Swift is 33 seconds adrift, and the 8-man chase crew in the back of him nonetheless in combination and an additional 50 seconds in the back of.

2025-03-08T14:34:49.283Z

Has Pidcock made the proper name right here via sitting up? He should have feared going into the purple via seeking to grasp off a charging Pogačar, however he had the Slovenian below severe force there. 

Pogačar is bruised, with some tears in his white international champion’s shorts. Will this compromise his possibilities of profitable?

2025-03-08T14:32:13.855Z

Pogačar is again with Pidcock, 46km from the end.

2025-03-08T14:31:55.473Z

Pidcock should have calcualted that it isn’t value taking up Pogačar in a mano-y-mano chase this early within the race.

2025-03-08T14:31:25.907Z

Actually, Pidcock is sitting up. 

2025-03-08T14:30:58.034Z

Simply 15 seconds now between Pogačar and Pidcock.

2025-03-08T14:30:13.047Z

Pogačar has already dropped Swift.

2025-03-08T14:29:51.352Z

The space between Pidcock and Pogačar / Swift is coming down. It was once 30 seconds, now it is 20.

2025-03-08T14:29:31.031Z

Pogačar is now again with Swift.

2025-03-08T14:29:22.101Z

It was once a excessive pace crash for Pogačar, however apparently now not a heavy one. He does not appear too harm, however has floor to make up, having misplaced extra time having to modify motorcycles.

2025-03-08T14:27:17.209Z

Pidcock is now out entrance on my own. Swift is moment, Pogačar 3rd.

2025-03-08T14:26:59.100Z
COLLE PINZUTO

We are at the gravel once more. Can Pogačar shut the space?

2025-03-08T14:26:25.393Z

He is again up and chasing, however that is some building.

2025-03-08T14:26:12.868Z

With 50km to move, Pogačar misjudged a nook and went down.

2025-03-08T14:25:43.370Z
POGACAR CRASH

Crash – Pogačar is down!

2025-03-08T14:21:54.048Z

The leaders have finished that sector. Nonetheless no new assaults. 

2025-03-08T14:20:43.813Z

Here is the brand new makeup of the chase crew in the back of the main trio:

Roger Adrià

Pello Bilbao

Gianni Vermeersch

Tim Wellens

Ben Healy

Michael Valgren

Lennert Van Eetvelt

Magnus Cort

2025-03-08T14:19:59.521Z
MONTEAPERTI

Onto the gravel once more, for the Monteaperti phase. This one’s best 600m lengthy.

2025-03-08T14:19:20.288Z

The 2 chase teams have come in combination.

2025-03-08T14:17:43.209Z

With 2 riders (Healy and a resurgent Valgren) within the chase, EF are main, and brining the space between themselves and Adrià/Bilbao/Vermeersch down. There are best 5 seconds between them. 

2025-03-08T14:15:28.007Z

That is an implausible experience via Swift, who, take into account, controlled to rejoin Pogačar and Pidcock regardless of being to start with stuck and dropped via them. He is now were given a head get started of over a minute forward of the chasers, so will have to be poised for a excessive end when (if?) he is dropped. 

2025-03-08T14:14:14.717Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 LR Tom Pidcock of The United Kingdom and Q365 Pro Cycling Team and Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia and UAE Team EmiratesXRG compete in the breakaway during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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Here is Pogačar and Pidcock, sooner than they have been joined via Swift.

2025-03-08T14:12:23.062Z
60KM TO GO

Here is the race state of affairs with 60km to move:

Tadej Pogačar

Connor Swift

Tom Pidcock

1-17

Roger Adrià

Pello Bilbao

Gianni Vermeersch

0-10

Tim Wellens

Ben Healy

Michael Valgren

Lennert Van Eetvelt

Mark Donovan

Pepijn Reinderink

2025-03-08T14:09:34.584Z

That chase crew in the back of them may be breaking aside, because the fatigued riders from the unique damage begin to pass backwards.

2025-03-08T14:08:58.399Z

Bilbao, Adrià and Vermeersch are 20 seconds forward of the remainder of the chasers.  

2025-03-08T14:08:08.410Z

There are a number of kilometres now of rolling terrain till the primary of the remainder seven gravel sectors.

2025-03-08T14:05:53.780Z

There are assaults out the chase crew in the back of. Bilbao, Adrià and Vermeersch have long gone transparent.

2025-03-08T14:04:56.650Z

Pogačar is doing many of the paintings, however Pidcock has come to take a flip now.

2025-03-08T14:02:40.800Z

3-time winner Fabian Cancellara is noticed on the feed zone, handing out musettes. His document of three wins is taking a look in severe threat, however Pidcock is giving Pogačar an actual battle.

2025-03-08T14:00:40.912Z

(From L) Team Q36.5's Thomas Pidcock, Team UAE's slovenain rider Tadej Pogacar and Team EF Education's Dutch rider Ben Healy lead the race during the 19th one-day classic Strade Bianche (White Roads) men's cycling race between Siena and Siena in Tuscany on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

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Here is Pidcock main Pogačar, sooner than the 2 of them went transparent of everybody.

2025-03-08T13:58:15.069Z
70KM TO GO

Teams 2 and three are about to return in combination. They are 49 seconds in the back of the main trio.

2025-03-08T13:57:13.517Z

Then comes a bunch of about 8, of the most efficient of the remaining in the back of Pog and Pidcock – Wellens, Del Toro, Healy, Van Eetvelt, Adria, Cort, Vermeersch, plus some other of the early damage, Foldager. 

2025-03-08T13:56:01.274Z

At the back of them, Askey, Donovan and Weiss are 38 seconds in the back of.

2025-03-08T13:55:42.978Z

The main trio are off the gravel.

2025-03-08T13:55:02.076Z

Pidcock loves Strade Bianche. While he will also be inconsistent in some races, right here he is been 1st, 4th and fifth in his 3 previous appearances.

2025-03-08T13:53:37.994Z

Swift has joined them. We’ve a number one trio.

2025-03-08T13:52:35.131Z

At the back of, Swift is the 3rd rider at the highway, nonetheless seeking to bridge again as much as them. And he’s only some seconds away.

2025-03-08T13:52:08.574Z

Pogačar takes another time as the street tilts up all over again.

2025-03-08T13:51:45.418Z

Now Pidcock does come to the entrance on a downhill phase of the gravel. It looks as if the Brit needs to place the force on all the way through terrain that fits him – descending.

2025-03-08T13:50:20.323Z

Pidcock is not coming via to take a flip – understandably, given who he is up in opposition to.

2025-03-08T13:49:31.656Z

There are nonetheless a couple of kilometres left of Monte Sante Marie.

2025-03-08T13:48:06.770Z

The pair have dropped the opposite breakaway riders, and feature now stuck and handed the only last chief, Connor Swift. 

2025-03-08T13:47:44.614Z

Nonetheless Pidcock can practice even though.

2025-03-08T13:47:34.091Z

Pogačar’s attacking once more!

2025-03-08T13:47:27.016Z

The ones assaults have been made with 78.5km to move – just a little later than Pogačar’s transfer to win ultimate 12 months.

2025-03-08T13:46:02.932Z

Pogačar and Pidcock have bridged as much as probably the most breakaway riders.

2025-03-08T13:45:47.861Z

Pidcock is on his wheel, however he is the one one.

2025-03-08T13:45:37.793Z

And now Pogačar counter-attacks!

2025-03-08T13:45:27.971Z

Pidcock assaults!

2025-03-08T13:45:17.246Z

It is now simply Pogačar, Pidcock, Healy and Cort with Wellens.

2025-03-08T13:44:05.327Z

Del Toro is completed, and now Wellens leads.

2025-03-08T13:43:22.475Z

The tempo set via Del Toro has observed him, Wellens, Pogačar, Healy, Pidcock and some other get a small hole.

2025-03-08T13:42:51.715Z

An overly small crew has now long gone transparent from the peloton.

2025-03-08T13:42:10.399Z

The peloton is getting smaller, however giant names are nonetheless there – Bilbao, Kwiatkowski amongst them, as are Adria, Gianni Vermeersch, Valter, Mollema, amongst a number of others.

2025-03-08T13:41:05.105Z

Del Toro remains to be main, however Pogačar additionally has Wellens again with him to take over if / when he wishes him.

2025-03-08T13:40:35.663Z

Pidcock ane Healy are up close to Pogačar on the entrance.

2025-03-08T13:39:36.131Z

Out entrance, the 6 escapees are again in combination. 

2025-03-08T13:39:05.601Z

The peloton is being stretched to verge of collapse. Riders are going out the again, and there are nearly some gaps close to the entrance.

2025-03-08T13:37:59.314Z

The breakaway crew is breaking apart. Askey and Swift have an opening.

2025-03-08T13:36:58.667Z

For UAE, Del Toro has taken over from Florian Vermeeresch. Pogačar has some critically sturdy teammates to lend a hand him.

2025-03-08T13:36:30.337Z

The peloton too are on Monte Sante Marie, and UAE are again in keep an eye on.

2025-03-08T13:36:15.034Z

In spite of their excellent paintings, Ineos’ chief Kwiatkowski best simply have shyed away from crisis, with reference to managing to stick upright as his wheel slipped from below him.

2025-03-08T13:35:26.515Z

Ineos have wrestled keep an eye on from UAE as they enar the sphere. 

2025-03-08T13:34:37.985Z
MONTE SANTE MARIE

The leaders are onto Monte Sante Marie, and the peloton will practice quickly.

2025-03-08T13:34:13.593Z

There will likely be a battle for Pogačar’s wheel sooner than they get directly to it. Pidcock is profitable it for now, last glued to the Slovenian as he had for far of the day.

2025-03-08T13:33:19.650Z

UAE Crew Emirates have surely upped the tempo within the option to it. The 3 domestiques main Pogačar have decreased the space between themselves and the leaders to 1-30.

2025-03-08T13:31:44.126Z

Monte Sante Marie is the sphere the place Pogačar introduced either one of his race-winning assaults, in 2022 and 2024. He hasn’t, like ultimate 12 months, already mentioned publicly his goal to take action this time, however that might smartly be the plan however.

2025-03-08T13:28:24.893Z
90KM TO GO

Bobbing up subsequent is the massive one – Monte Sante Marie. This gravel sector has a tendency to be the only the place the race explodes into existence, and they’ll start it in about 7km.

2025-03-08T13:25:31.157Z

The leaders have completed San Martino in Grania, which means they’ve now finished part of the day’s 16 sectors.

2025-03-08T13:23:33.723Z

It’s already a lowered peloton this is making their means alongside the San Martino in Grania sector. There can’t be greater than 50 riders in it.

2025-03-08T13:22:31.617Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 Roger Adria of Spain and Team Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe Ccompetes during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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2025-03-08T13:20:39.156Z

One rider now not with Pogačar in Tim Wellens. The Belgian is most often certainly one of his most powerful teammates, and would had been tasked with putting in an assault, however was once dropped previous within the day. 

2025-03-08T13:19:01.869Z

Pogačar has 3 males forward of him surroundings the tempo. It is fast, however now not too fast, and an assault does not appear drawing close simply but.

2025-03-08T13:18:03.379Z

The space continues to tumble, and is now underneath two mins. 

2025-03-08T13:17:34.364Z
SAN MARTINO IN GRANIA

We are on a brand new phase, San Martino in Grania. UAE Crew Emirates are main te peloton nonetheless. 

2025-03-08T13:13:11.040Z

Pogačar attacked from 50km to move in 2022, and 80km to move in 2024. There are actually 110km to move…

2025-03-08T13:12:13.513Z
110KM TO GO

The race is on, and the peloton is bearing down at the leaders. The space is all the way down to below 3 mins.

2025-03-08T13:07:16.401Z

The chasing trio has stuck the main trio, forming a brand new crew of 6.

2025-03-08T13:06:52.242Z
SERRAVALLE

The leaders are again at the gravel once more, and it is the one many have mentioned – Serravalle, a brand new addition to this 12 months’s version. 

2025-03-08T13:05:43.390Z

Issues for a couple of riders within the peloton. Krists Neilands has crashed out, whilst Valentin Madouas has had a mechanical.

2025-03-08T13:04:09.762Z

In Siena, the rostrum rite is being carried out for the ladies’s race, which got here to an exciting conclusion. In finding out what took place right here. 

2025-03-08T13:02:46.289Z
120KM TO GO

The ones 3 riders are about 5 seconds forward of a chasing trio of Swift, Petilli and Weiss.

2025-03-08T13:01:19.613Z

We are unsuitable about Askey – he in fact remains to be up there and proper on the entrance, following the transfer of Donovan and Reinderink.

2025-03-08T13:00:04.552Z

It is all breaking apart within the entrance crew now. Donovan and Reinderink have attacked out the entrance.

2025-03-08T12:59:24.365Z

That is a large disgrace for Askey, as he was once arguably the most powerful identify within the crew, and is in excellent shape having positioned tenth at Omloop and fifth at Ename Samyn.

2025-03-08T12:57:58.457Z

It kind of feels Askey was once additionally fascinated by an incident sooner or later. He is simply been swept up into the peloton.

2025-03-08T12:56:04.940Z

A crash within the lead crew – Philipsen’s concerned once more, and has long gone down with Worth-Pejtersen and Foldager.

2025-03-08T12:52:35.631Z

Philipsen is again with the leaders after puncturing previous. 

2025-03-08T12:49:59.011Z
120KM TO GO

Whilst the leaders descend the rest of the Pieve a Salti, the peloton are nonetheless at the uphill a part of it, 3-50 in the back of.

2025-03-08T12:48:14.547Z

Team UAE's slovenain rider Tadej Pogacar rides during the 19th one-day classic Strade Bianche (White Roads) men's cycling race between Siena and Siena in Tuscany on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

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Here is a glimpse of Tadej Pogačar at the gravel. No threat of the ones white Global Champion’s shorts getting muddy in lately’s prerequisites. 

2025-03-08T12:45:04.155Z
PIEVE A SALTI

They’re at the subsequent sector now, and it’s some other laborious one, lasting 8km and directed uphill. 

2025-03-08T12:42:41.437Z

They are finally accomplished with the Lucignano d’Asso, however will likely be again at the gravel once more in a while. 

2025-03-08T12:41:34.800Z

Extra dangerous good fortune for Philipsen within the lead crew, as he has some other flat tyre – his moment of the day. 

2025-03-08T12:38:50.424Z

The velocity is up and the space is beginning to come down in this gravel sector. The leaders had been introduced again to inside 4 mins.

2025-03-08T12:37:12.831Z
130KM TO GO

The riders are in essentially the most intense section of the race when it comes to gravel roads. The present sector of Lucignano d’Asso and the 4 that practice it quantity to 50km of gravel, within the house of simply 66km of racing. There’s a protracted option to pass when they whole the ultimate certainly one of this run, Monte Sante Marie, however the race is prone to already be in bits via then.

2025-03-08T12:30:47.743Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 A general view of the peloton passing through a landscape during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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2025-03-08T12:26:02.988Z

Closer to Siena, the ladies’s race is coming to an exciting conclusion. Learn all about it right here.

2025-03-08T12:22:04.419Z
LUCIGNANO D’ASSO

We are again at the gravel sector for Lucignano d’Asso, which, at 11.9km, is the longest of the entire race.

2025-03-08T12:20:36.387Z
140KM TO GO

4-45 is the space between the leaders and the peloton.

2025-03-08T12:19:39.036Z

Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team's British rider Tom Pidcock looks on before the 19th one-day classic 'Strade Bianche' (White Roads) cycling race between Siena and Siena, Tuscany, on March 8, 2025. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

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If any individual can save you Pogačar from profitable lately, you sense it might be Tom Pidcock, pictured right here firstly of the day. The Brit is the one different rider provide to have received this race inside the ultimate seven editions, and was once in combating communicate going into the race, mentioning that he was once right here to ‘try to win’

2025-03-08T12:14:05.166Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia and UAE Team EmiratesXRG C competes during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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2025-03-08T12:09:20.089Z

The leaders have crested Montalcino, and the peloton are about to practice. No longer lengthy now till the following gravel sector, Lucignano d’Asso, and then they arrive thick and speedy.

2025-03-08T12:06:48.057Z

The large query we’re all questioning as we get deeper and deeper into the race – when will Tadej Pogačar assault? Having long gone from 50km for this 2022 win, and 80km ultimate 12 months, will he attempt to outdo himself this 12 months with a extra from even additional out?

He mentioned previous to the race that he doesn’t intend to, however you’ll by no means moderately make sure that with the Slovenian, and if he feels within the temper, he may all the time assault spontaneously. All eyes will likely be on him.

2025-03-08T12:01:43.076Z
150KM TO GO

The leaders’ merit has grown out to 5-30 at the Montalcino, which they’re nonetheless hiking.

2025-03-08T11:58:18.946Z

2025-03-08T11:56:51.851Z

It’s now not simply the elements lately that shapes what the roads are like, however earlier days’ prerequisites. One rider participating, Quinn Simmons, noticed how every week of heat climate has made the gravel looser than same old.

2025-03-08T11:51:09.017Z
MONTALCINO

The leaders have simply begun hiking Montalcino. It is not on gravel roads, however it is nonetheless a troublesome climb however, averaging 4.8% for six.5km. 

2025-03-08T11:47:38.562Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 A general view of the peloton competing during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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2025-03-08T11:44:08.609Z
160KM TO GO

Over 4 and a part mins for the leaders. They are nearing the beginning of the Montalcino climb.

2025-03-08T11:43:12.920Z

There were a couple of crashes within the peloton, even though we’re at the tarmac slightly than the gravel. Diego Ulissi, Davide De Pretto, Natnael Tesfatsion and Alexy Faure Prost have all long gone down.

2025-03-08T11:39:20.103Z

The damage’s all again in combination now, as the 3 dropped riders go back. The race has calmed down sufficient for them to make it again up.

2025-03-08T11:37:09.889Z

And now it is all the way down to 7, as Philipsen has a puncture. That is some again good fortune for the 18-year-old, however an occupational danger at this race.

2025-03-08T11:35:42.624Z

The lead crew has already damaged up a bit of, with Petilli and Foldager each dropped and 30 seconds adrift. 

2025-03-08T11:34:23.644Z
170KM TO GO

The space between the leaders and peloton has stabilised. It is now slightly below 4 mins. 

2025-03-08T11:31:58.762Z

In spite of the intense issue and enormous time gaps ultimate 12 months, the organisers have for 2025 taken the stairs of constructing Strade Bianche even tougher. There hasn’t ever been an version with greater than the 81.7km sectors of gravel that this 12 months’s gifts, they usually’ve added a brand new, particularly laborious 9.5km Seravalle sector. 

It’ll additional beef up the problem of the race, however some concern that via making the race too laborious, probably the most subtlety that makes it one of these finely balanced race will likely be misplaced.

2025-03-08T11:31:45.130Z
LA PIANA

They are again at the gravel for L. a. Piana, even though this one has more uncomplicated gradients than the ultimate, extra downhill than uphill.

2025-03-08T11:20:41.370Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 A general view of the peloton competing during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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2025-03-08T11:14:48.110Z
180KM TO GO

Over 4 mins for the main ten, as they proceed to experience the Radi sector. The race is calm for now.

2025-03-08T11:14:02.905Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 A general view of the peloton competing during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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The peloton remains to be all in combination at this early section of the race.

2025-03-08T11:11:40.535Z
RADI

Time for the 3rd gravel sector, named Radi. It is a identical period to the former two, at 4.4km. Longer, tougher ones are to return.

2025-03-08T11:09:54.981Z

Additional up the street, the ladies’s peloton is already on the trade finish of the race. You’ll practice the entire motion right here.

2025-03-08T11:05:39.311Z

SIENA ITALY MARCH 08 Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia and UAE Team EmiratesXRG competes during the 19th Strade Bianche 2025 Mens Elite a 213km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m UCIWT on March 08 2025 in Siena Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

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Unsurprisingly, Pogačar’s UAE Crew Emirates teammates have taken accountability on the entrance of the peloton.

2025-03-08T11:01:43.382Z
190KM TO GO

Philipsen and the opposite 9 have a lead of 3 mins at the peloton, as they make there option to the tip of the Bagnaia sector.

2025-03-08T11:00:09.558Z

Possibly essentially the most fascinating identify within the damage is Albert Withen Philipsen. On the age of simply 18, the Dane is the youngest guy within the race, and enormous issues are anticipated of him sooner or later.  Actually, given the way in which riders develop into aggressive at more youthful and more youthful ages nowadays, giant issues are even anticipated of him within the provide. Can he keep out entrance for some time now that he’s slipped into the damage?

2025-03-08T10:56:56.428Z

Right here’s the 10 riders within the damage: 

Stan Dewulf (Decathlon AG2R L. a. Mondiale)

Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ)

Connor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers)

Mark Donovan (Q36.5 Professional Biking)

Johan Worth-Pejtersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Pepijn Reinderink (Soudal-QuickStep)

Simone Petilli (Intermarché – Wanty)

Albert Withen Philipsen (Lidl-Trek)

Anders Foldager (Jayco-AlUla)

Fabian Weiss (Tudor Professional Biking)

2025-03-08T10:56:41.438Z
BAGNAIA

They are on the second one sector, Bagnaia. This one’s uphill too, epitomising the whole thing that makes this race so laborious and so particular.

2025-03-08T10:51:46.055Z

Crucially, prerequisites in the market are dry. This can be a race the place climate has an affect possibly greater than some other, what with its direct correlation with the situation of the ones all-important gravel roads. On this case, they’ll be dry and dusty slightly than rainy and muddy.

2025-03-08T10:49:22.316Z
VIDRITTA

They are at the first phase now, the 4.4km Vidritta. 

2025-03-08T10:48:42.764Z

It is a sturdy damage that is long gone up the street. Lewis Askey, Mark Donovan and Connor Swift are all there. 

2025-03-08T10:47:05.149Z

That crew of ten is coming near the Vidritta, the primary of the day’s 16 gravel sectors. The riders will spend over a 3rd of the entire race on those roads.

2025-03-08T10:44:59.081Z
200KM TO GO

It kind of feels we now have our damage of the day then. We’re going to give a full-run down of who is in it in a while. 

2025-03-08T10:44:26.557Z

There are ten riders on this crew, they usually seem to have succeeded. There is a minute between themselves and the peloton.

2025-03-08T10:43:29.969Z

A bunch of riders are seeking to pass off the entrance.

2025-03-08T10:37:07.886Z
213KM TO GO

And they are off!

2025-03-08T10:36:41.608Z

Slovenian Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates pictured at the start of the men elite 'Strade Bianche' one day cycling race, 213km from and to Siena, Italy on Saturday 08 March 2025. BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM (Photo by DIRK WAEM / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP)

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At the present time with regards to races that includes Pogačar, the query doesn’t appear to be whether or not he’ll win, however via how a lot and thru how long-range an assault. And there will also be unquestionably that he’s the overpowering favorite. 

However it’d be silly to write down this off as a foregone conclusion. The difficult and selective terrain of Strade Bianche performs into his fingers, however the chance of mechanicals at the gravel roads does throw up a point of unpredictability and fortune. If Pogačar does get a puncture or crash on the improper second, issues may get very fascinating.

2025-03-08T10:30:49.251Z

Mohorič made up our minds to drag out having felt ill all the way through the evening. It seems like he will have to be positive for Milan-Sanremo in a fortnight.

2025-03-08T10:28:32.704Z

One rider now not amongst them is Matej Mohorič, who pulled out firstly. That’s an actual disgrace because the Slovenian would had been some of the favourites, having completed 5th ultimate 12 months and 6th the 12 months sooner than.

Pogačar and the opposite 173 riders participating are on the neutralised phase now, and can see the flag in a while. We’ll be racing quickly!

2025-03-08T10:19:07.102Z

Lately, the race has develop into one thing of a procession for Tadej Pogačar, together with his early assaults and lengthy solo victories in each 2022 and ultimate 12 months sucking probably the most drama out of the race. He’s at the startlist once more lately, aiming to win a 3rd identify and draw degree on Fabian Cancellara as the one different guy to have received 3 editions of Strade Bianche.

2025-03-08T10:10:40.934Z

What makes it so particular is after all the white gravel roads of Tuscany that provides it its identify. Those roads provide a singular problem that neither tarmac nor cobblestones can examine with, that produces a mix of issue, drama and visible spectacle that reliably makes for some of the very best races of the season.

2025-03-08T10:02:28.974Z

You sign up for us for what is not just some of the highlights of the spring, however of the entire season. 

Strade Bianche is an exception in biking, a race that, regardless of being quite new, has within the house of lower than two decades, develop into probably the most standard and sought-after races at the calendar.

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