Another weekend, another dominant victory for Tadej Pogačar . The previous weekend it had been the World Championships , now, clad in his renewed rainbow bands, the Slovenian stormed to the win in the road race at the European Championships.

There are almost 6,000km between Kigali, Rwanda, where the first triumph happened, and Valence, France where the latest conquest took place, but it was much the same. At the Worlds, Pogačar had attacked at 104km to go and was alone from 66km; at the Euros, he went alone with 75km to go. This is cycling by numbers stuff. Pogačar attacks, and the best riders in the world can't catch him.

It helped the déjà vu nature of Sunday that Remco Evenepoel of Belgium finished second once again, clearly the next best thing, but quite clearly next best, not

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