Slovenian Tadej Pogacar capped a superb season by winning the European title on Sunday to add to his World Championships crown, before issuing a warning to his rivals by saying he still has room to improve and become even better.

This year's European Championships were billed as a three-way battle between Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard, but a dominant Pogacar blew away the competition with a devastating 75-km solo attack.

Belgian Evenepoel was second, while Dane Vingegaard did not finish the race.

Pogacar also beat Evenepoel to claim a second-consecutive men's road race world title last month, becoming the first rider to win the Tour de France and the World Championships road race the same year twice in a row.

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