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The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar <\/strong>(UAE Team Emirates – XRG) is the king of the White Roads<\/strong> by adding his fourth victory and leaving behind the three triumphs of the Swiss Fabian Cancellara<\/strong>. True to his style, the two-time world champion attacked from afar, on Monte Sante Marie, and rode alone during the last 80 kilometers of the race.<\/p>\n The one from the UAE arrived with a minute advantage over the cyclist who challenged him the most, the Frenchman Paul Seixas <\/strong>(Decathlon), which prevented the Emirati team from scoring a double by leaving behind Isaac Del Toro<\/strong>the Mexican cyclist who had a great season last year. <\/p>\n The ‘Sterrato’ Classic has an indisputable owner. The race that takes place in Siena <\/strong>and this edition celebrated its 20th anniversary, celebrating the return of the Slovenian legend, the same one who, despite not competing since the last ‘Il Lombard\u00eda’, in October 2025, did not give a single option to the surprise. The world champion started his season in style, as if it were a d\u00e9j\u00e0 v\u00f9 from the past.<\/p>\n Nobody had won three in a row. No one had triumphed four times before. The Swiss Fabian Cancellara was the only one who held on with three. And the beast of contemporary cycling (winner in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026) had time to play with the television cameras and face the traditional final climb by Via Santa Caterina<\/strong>in the heart of the city of Siena, celebrating alongside an Italian public dedicated to the absolute dominator of the circuit, smiling despite the physical wear and tear accumulated after 202 km of travel.<\/p>\n It was a substantially shorter circuit this year. And that is why perhaps the fastest ever, with a average of 42.6 Km\/h<\/strong>. 13 km were cut compared to the previous season. Not even with those there was any room for uncertainty. All under the control of a Pogacar that, unlike the last edition, did not fall and needed a great comeback. In this one, a hard one with 3,530 meters of elevation gain and 20 km less of ‘sterrato’, he was the absolute leader. <\/p>\n Because it allowed, as usual, the initial escape of those who deludedly dream of an impossible bell if Pogacar is registered. And on Monte Sante Marie, the part that seemed decisive, with 1 km at 10.5%, the pace set by the Swiss Jan Christen<\/strong> (UAE) served on a silver platter the attack on Pogacar, which repeated the area in which it already exhibited its full potential in 2024. <\/p>\n He began his personal career, his particular ‘show’. Fierce attack that seemed effortless. The 27-year-old cyclist covered almost 80 kilometers alone. He enjoyed the leadership again on Tuscan soil. From the warmth of the Italian public. And he raised his arms, bow included, after overcoming the legendary final climb that made him a historic cyclist on this classic of white roads. Pogacar<\/strong> he came back in style. Poker. Nobody better than him in the Tuscan ‘sterrato’. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) is the king of the White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}He went winning and comes back winning<\/h2>\n