Lombardia Promises Gripping End to Season in Pogacar Absence

Lombardia promises gripping end to season in Pogacar absence

With the injured Pogacar missing, the field will be wide-open, giving hope to any number of riders that they could write their name in Monument history. The 27-year-old Slovenian has been the dominant rider in cycling for the last half dozen years, and nowhere has that been starker than at the Classic of the Falling Leaves. He won the autumn Monument in each of the last five years -- the only man to have won a single Monument that many times con…

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Handed a golden opportunity by Pogacar’s injury, the peloton has largely failed to seize it. Flo Clifford explains what Pidcock must do in the final Monument of the year