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Was Tadej Pogačar's 2024 racing season the greatest in cycling history? After adding a fourth Il Lombardia title to round-off his stellar year, Rouleur looks at how the Slovenian's 2024 racing season stacks up against cycling's best Photos: Zac Williams/SWpix.com   Words: Stephen Puddicombe Now that Tadej Pogačar has hung up his cleats for the off-season and enjoys a well-earned rest, we can start to ask the question: have we just witnessed the single greatest season by a professional cyclist in the history of the sport? That might initially sound hyperbolic, and perhaps a matter of recency bias that overlooks and downplays the many great achievements of the distant and not so well remembered past. But the more you delve into the sport’s history, the greater Pogačar’s feats in 2024 become. In terms of sheer quantity of wins, we haven’t seen the likes of this for many years. Last Saturday’s Il Lombardia triumph was his 25th of the season, the highest total any rider has mana

https://flandriabikes.com/pages/building-a-super-team-champions-and-tragedy 1962 had been a stellar year for the team, having won 101 races, but after the departure of Van Looy and his key lieutenants, the team needed to be rebuilt. Now under Flemish control, the team decided that a different approach was needed. Unlike all the other teams, Flandria decided that the squad would no longer be built around a single team leader. Strength in depth was more considered more important and the team became known for encouraging and nurturing new talent, and instilling in the riders that it was the success of the team, rather than individual success that mattered. This was to be achieved through the characteristically Flemish virtues of hard work, tenacity and mental toughness. Aspiring young Belgian cyclists dreamed of joining the Flandria squad, and when they were lucky enough to get signed, they felt they had no alternative but to produce results that would honor the Flandria tradition. Walter

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