Tadej Pogacar has achieved another phenomenal and historic world road race championship triumph, defending his rainbow jersey in Rwanda with a now trademark epic solo ride.

The great Slovenian attacked with 104km left on Mount Kigali on Sunday and went it alone 66km from home to destroy the field and become the first man to complete the world championship-Tour de France double in successive years.

With a tour de force that again raises the question of whether he might just be the greatest cyclist of all time, Pogacar had one minute 28 seconds to spare over Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel at the end of the 267.7km slog around Kigali which featured a merciless 5475m of climbing.

Evenepoel added silver to the gold he had won in the time trial the previous weekend, and was left musing with

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