Tadej Pogacar completes a dominant overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya while Mads Pedersen triumphs at Gent-Wevelgem.
Tadej Pogacar completed a dominant overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya by winning the final seventh stage, while Mads Pedersen outsprinted Mathieu van der Poel to triumph at the one-day classic Gent-Wevelgem.
Denmark's Pedersen, 28, outlasted reigning world champion Van der Poel in a two-man showdown to win in Belgium. "I had to believe in my sprint because we couldn't start to attack each other, the bunch would pick us up. With the shape he showed lately, it was hard to believe," said Pedersen. But, determined to celebrate a successful week with yet another stage win, no rivals were able to deny him at the end of a hilly 145km route.