{"id":1528,"date":"2026-04-06T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:13:09","slug":"pogacar-still-too-strong-for-van-der-poel-evenepoel-responded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Pogacar still too strong for Van der Poel, Evenepoel responded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Tadej Pogacar is expanding his collection of monuments. Two weeks after winning his first Milan-San Remo, the world champion unsurprisingly won the Tour of Flanders for the third time in his career after a lively race. Mathieu van der Poel, as often happens, finished behind him. For his first participation, Remco Evenepoel showed his grinta to achieve an excellent third place.<\/p>\n<p>The last rider to drop out after the flight of the Pogacar-Van der Poel tandem, the leader of Red Bull &#8211; Bora offered the Belgian public a nice resistance act by remaining less than ten seconds behind the two men for long kilometers, before definitively exploding during the last pass on the cobblestones of Old Kwaremont.<\/p>\n<h2>Heading for Paris-Roubaix for Pogacar<\/h2>\n<p>It is in the same place and as usual that Tadej Pogacar chose to leave Mathieu Van der Poel company. The Dutchman quickly let go of the Slovenian&#8217;s wheel and, if he did not completely explode at first, had to resolve to surrender at the top of Paterberg a few kilometers later, leaving Pogacar free to reach the finish line alone and without ever being worried.<\/p>\n<p>With this twelfth victory in a Monument, the Slovenian overtakes Roger de Vlaeminck and is now alone second in the all-time rankings behind the \u201cGoat\u201d Eddy Merckx. Next week, the UAE leader will try to finish the game once and for all by winning the only monument that eludes him: Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tadej Pogacar is expanding his collection of monuments. Two weeks after winning his first Milan-San Remo, the world champion unsurprisingly won the Tour of Flanders for the third time in his career after a lively race. Mathieu van der Poel, as often happens, finished behind him. For his first participation, Remco Evenepoel showed his grinta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}