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Scotsman
4 days ago
- Business
- Scotsman
Cycling Rich List 2025: Here are the 10 highest paid cyclists in the world
It's one of the most gruelling sports there is, but if you manage to become one of the world's top cyclists then you'll not be worried about paying the monthly gas bill. While the prize money on offer doesn't match the likes of tennis or golf , Tadej Pogačar still earnt €500,000 for winning the Tour de France last year. Unlike many sports, these competitors earn the majority of their cash from being paid a salary by their racing team - a figure they can then bolster with money-spinning advertising and sponsorship deals, personal appearances and shrewd investments . Here are the top 10 highest paid cyclists in the world in 2025. 1 . Tadej Pogacar - €8 million The red hot favourite for the Tour de France, Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar, is the best paid cyclist in the world - with an salary of around €8 million. He's already won three - in 2020, 2021 and 2024. He's got plenty more years of big bucks ahead too - he's under contract with the filthy rich UAE Team Emirates until 2030. | AFP via Getty Images Photo Sales 2 . Remco Evenepoel - €5 million Belgian Remco Evenepoel has won a saddlebag-load of trophies, including two UCI world championships, an Olympic gold medal and a European championship. His victory in the 2022 Vuelta a Espana was the first Grand Tour win for a Belgian since 1978. Soudal-QuickStep are thought to pay him around €5 million a year. | AFP via Getty Images Photo Sales 3 . Primoz Roglic - €4.5 million Slovenian cyclist Primoz Roglic has won five Grand Tours since turning professional at the relatively late age of 23 - a record tying four Vuelta a Espanas in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2024, and the 2023 Giro d'Italia. Signing up to Red Bull-Bora-Hansgroe gave him a big pay rise, to about €4.5 million. | AFP via Getty Images Photo Sales 4 . Jonas Vingegaard - €4 million Danish racer Jonas Hansen won the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Tour de France and is the only person who stands a chance of beating Tadej Pogacar in this year's race. UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike stump up around €4 million a year to keep him on their team. | AFP via Getty Images Photo Sales
SBS Australia
21-07-2025
- Sport
- SBS Australia
Pogacar "sad" over Evenepoel's departure from Tour De France
It's one of the world's most popular professional cycling races. The Tour de France not only tests the strength of individual elite athletes, but also their capacity to work as a team. This year, over 180 riders from 23 teams have joined the 21-day tour. By the end of the race they're expected to have travel around 3,300 kilometres across 11 regions in France. The Tour attracts ten million spectators each year and now as it reaches its midpoint, there have been some surprising moments. One is the withdrawal of Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel on the 14th day of the 21-day race on Saturday, after struggling with difficult mountain routes two days ago. The Olympian said he was already in a poor training condition before entering the Tour, with fatigue a factor. Evenepoel was seen as one of the big challengers for Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar who won his third Tour last year. Pogacar says he's disappointed that Evenepoel has had to leave the race. " In cycling you never know when it's your last day of riding, or riding the Tour or your career, so I'm really sad that he left the Tour." A few days earlier, the World No.1 cyclist also paid tribute to Samuele Privitera, a 19-year-old Italian cyclist who died after a crash in the Giro della Valle, another cycling race held at a similar time in Italy. "I was thinking in the last kilometre about him and yeah, how tough this sport can be - and how much pain it can cause." The Tour has also seen one spectator hit by a team car on Sunday. So why is the Tour de France this year so crash-prone? Adam Gill is a level-two cycling coach and owner of Bikestyle Tours, which organises holiday tours for fans. He says accidents are not uncommon in any given year. "It's, you know, the largest global bike race in the world to be successful at the Tour de France. It's unbelievably important for the teams and sponsors. So when you have 180 cycles on a small bit of road all trying to get to the front and when, sadly, accidents happen." He also says the improvements in technology also allow riders to compete at much faster speeds than even ten years ago. " So obviously, they're riding consistently at 50 and 60km an hour. You know, the margins of error are so small that it doesn't take much for someone to, touch the brakes and next, 30 or 40 cycles are hitting ground. And I think the speeds that they're going now are exceptional compared to what they used to a couple years ago." For elite cyclists, technology also means the intensity of their training has increased, meaning they are starting their careers at an earlier age. "They used to say that the peak rider age for a Tour de France rider would be in the late 20s, early 30s. That's definitely changed. The younger riders are doing a lot better, and that comes down to the science and their preparation for the races, they feel a lot better now, like in terms they can get a lot more carbohydrates and calories into the system, where that never used to be the case. So Nutrition has definitely improved. But again, you know, they got full time scientists working on their preparation, from training, the altitude, strength and conditioning, flexibility, nutrition." In Australia cycling remains a popular form of exercise. But now, researchers are studying if the sport also has a dark side. Dr Daniel Wundersitz is a research fellow at La Trobe University's Holsworth Biomedical Research Centre. " In Bendigo, Australia, we've noticed there's been a higher proportion of people showing up at the cardiology department with heart abnormalities, and it turns out that a few of them were cyclists. So we've done some research looking at the effect of endurance exercise on the hearts of cyclists and expanding it to runners as well." Dr Wundersitz says they are still not sure why more cyclists are showing up with heart abnormalities, and whether the sport has any role to play. But he adds cycling is still a great hobby as long as moderation is practiced. " So you don't want to go out and go, I'm going to now go and cycle for six hours in a day when you've never cycled like that before. For example, you want to slowly start, you know, go out for 30 minutes, say, hey, handle it. Make sure you recover especially if you're planning to go and do, say, a fun run or a charity event with friends from work or your high school friends, or whoever it is, you don't want to shock the system and do something you know, crazy, like what athletes in the Tour de France do without, you know, a long training background leading up to that."
The Guardian
20-07-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Tour de France 2025: Arensman wins blockbuster stage 14 in Pyrenees
Update: Date: 2025-07-19T16:00:09.000Z Title: Here's Jeremy Whittle's report from the Pyrenees. Content: Tadej Pogacar followed the Dutch Team Ineos rider home after Remco Evenepoel abandoned early in the stage John Brewin Sat 19 Jul 2025 17.57 CEST First published on Sat 19 Jul 2025 11.30 CEST 5.57pm CEST 17:57 5.39pm CEST 17:39 Tom Steels, the manager of Remco Evenepoel's team, Soudal-Quickstep, speaks: 'Like I said this morning, you hope for the best and hope it turns at the moment, but he didn't turn and he was suffering also. And then I think it's wiser not to continue and and just recover well. 'He's also, yeah, he still have some goals this year, maybe if he continue at the condition he had, that maybe the yeah, maybe the rest of the season has lost, so. I mean, yeah. and he was very disappointed.' 5.34pm CEST 17:34 Arensman, who has won on Sierra Nevada in Spain so is no mean climber, speaks: 'I don't know I can't really believe it's. I think still after being sick had a good preparation and going through my first Tour, I just wanted to experience everything and I had to be really patient the first week because it was all pretty good and I had to wait until the mountains and and then the first opportunity I got to I was already second. 'So that was already amazing and amazing experience in my first tour, but this is unbelievable now. Also, yeah, the way I did it, I think today, it's also Carlos [Rodriguez] in that group. And he did a really good job for me, but I yeah, I don't know. I I think I just had amazing Rels and in shape of my life. 'I thought with today and earners, three minutes, three and a half minutes is probably not enough. I have to move. Maybe it's suicide, maybe it's not, and I can't believe it. I was really fading on this last climb, the second half of the climb, but I don't know, but I think with all the fans they give me an extra few watts, I just could hold them off and some leave you know, it's crazy. 'I wanted to experience the biggest race in the world and then to win a stage in my first Tour and in this way is unbelievable, you know, it's crazy.' 5.25pm CEST 17:25 1. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates - XRG 50:40:28 2. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) Team Visma - Lease a Bike +4:13 3. Florian Lipowitz (GER) Red Bull - BORA - +7:53 4. Oscar Onley (GBR) Team Picnic PostNL +9:18 5. Kévin Vauquelin (FRA) Arkéa - B&B Hotels +10:21 6. Primoz Roglic (SLO) Red Bull - BORA - +10:34 7. Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale +12:00 Team 8. Tobias Johannessen (NOR) Uno-X Mobility +12:33 9. Ben Healy (IRL) EF Education - EasyPost +18:41 10. Carlos Rodríguez (ESP) INEOS Grenadiers +22:57 5.24pm CEST 17:24 1. Thymen Arensman (NED) INEOS Grenadiers 4:53:35 2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates - XRG +1:08 3. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) Team Visma - Lease a Bike +1:12 4. Felix Gall (AUT) Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale +1:19 Team 5. Florian Lipowitz (GER) Red Bull - BORA - +1:25 hansgrohe 6. Oscar Onley (GBR) Team Picnic PostNL +2:09 7. Ben Healy (IRL) EF Education - EasyPost +2:46 8. Primoz Roglic (SLO) Red Bull - BORA 9. Tobias Johannessen (NOR) Uno-X Mobility +2:59 10. Kévin Vauquelin (FRA) Arkéa - B&B Hotels +3:08 Updated at 5.26pm CEST 5.21pm CEST 17:21 Jonas Vingegaard speaks: 'Probably one of the toughest mountain stages I have done. A super-hard day. We wanted to try to win the stage. They couldn't follow Arensmam, he did a good performance on the final climb. When I realised Tadej woudn't try I thought I would do it myself.' 5.16pm CEST 17:16 Some bad news for Team Ineos, via Reuters: 'An Ineos-Grenadiers team car hit and knocked down a spectator during the 14th stage of the Tour de France cycle race, TV footage showed on Saturday. 'The team car was in the middle of the road to the Col de Peyresourde, about 200 metres from the top of the ascent, when it struck the spectator, who was cheering the riders on. Organisers told Reuters they were not aware of the accident while Ineos-Grenadiers were not immediately available for comment.' Updated at 5.23pm CEST 5.13pm CEST 17:13 And in the sprint through the mist, it's Pogacar – relentless – takes the bonus seconds from Vingegaard. Gall is fourth, and Florian Lipowitz comes in. Oscar Onley finishes fifth and is fourth on GC. Scotland's honour on this climb is repeated. Ben Healy, meanwhile, is back in the top 10 GC. Updated at 5.23pm CEST 5.10pm CEST 17:10 For once, the breakaway worked. What a win for him. One hundred metres from the line and he knows he's done. The Ineos drought is over. Updated at 5.12pm CEST 5.08pm CEST 17:08 0.5 km to go: Pogacar and Vingegaard thick as thieves. They won't be catching Arensman. Updated at 5.08pm CEST 5.07pm CEST 17:07 1 km to go: Arensman, into the mist and that steep final kilometre, and victory is in sight. What a ride from him. Updated at 5.08pm CEST 5.06pm CEST 17:06 1.5 km to go: The rest of the GC contenders shelling seconds as the two leaders cycle through incredible crowds. Arensman holds his lead. Big Sir Jim, on his fly-fishing trip with United execs, is surely watching. The Ineos drought might be over. Updated at 5.08pm CEST 5.04pm CEST 17:04 2.5km to go: Pogacar goes – and takes Gall – Vingegaard goes with Pogacar. Now another dig from the former champion. The gap to Arensman is 1.30'. Surely? Updated at 5.18pm CEST 5.03pm CEST 17:03 3km to go: Gall has 30 seconds on the GC group but must still make up 1' 40' or so on Arensman. Vingegaard attacks and Yates has no response. Pogacar holds the wheel, and looks unconcerned. Florian Lipowitz, in third, has to give everything to hold on. Onley is 15 seconds back – did he have a problem? Updated at 5.18pm CEST 4.59pm CEST 16:59 4 km to go: Rob Hatch on TNT says that Pippa York has been on to him and fears for Arensen. She knows how this feels, though had Pedro Delgado for company. Oh, those team Z colours. Arensman seems to hold on to time when Gall hits the harder gradient himself. Updated at 5.17pm CEST 4.56pm CEST 16:56 5 km to go: Gall has the gap down to two minutes. We await the Pogacar charge. Arensman, as the gradient rises, starts to look leggy. In the GC pack, Vaquelin looks to have cracked. Ben Healy is bouncing back, too. Updated at 5.17pm CEST 4.53pm CEST 16:53 6 km to go: Gall has a real job on his hands to close on Arensman, who has the race to himself. It's all on him though there are signs of fatigue as he reaches for a bidon. A truce called in the GC group? Perhaps. At least until the final metres and bonus seconds. Updated at 5.17pm CEST 4.51pm CEST 16:51 7 km: Felix Gall's break from the Pogacar group triggers a response. Adam Yates is pulling Pogacar up the hill. Gall overtakes the pursuers and now he is the main challenger to Arensman. Updated at 5.17pm CEST 4.48pm CEST 16:48 8 km to go: Two riders to work with for Pogacar. No real pressure on the chasing group. That's down to three men: Tobias Johannessen leads Rodriguez and Rubio as Paret-Peintre is shelled. Arensman is holding them off rather successfully. This is the ride of his life. Updated at 5.14pm CEST 4.43pm CEST 16:43 10km to go: Pogacar, Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz, the top three on GC are in the third pack on the road as Arensen sets off on his final dig. The gap to Pogacar is under three minutes. Soler is done for the day. Kuss is dropping back to help Vingo. Martinez, polka points pocketed, has cracked. 4.37pm CEST 16:37 12km to go: Warren Barguil goes out the back as Oscar Onley, his teammate, the Scot, the plucky Brit, and in the GC race, hangs on grimly. Arensman is metres from the final climb, the test of his destiny. Some rare good news for Big Sir Jim? We're about to find out. Updated at 5.14pm CEST 4.34pm CEST 16:34 13km to go: Vingegaard and Pogacar's pack gets in gear as they enter the preliminaries. Marc Soler leads Pogacar. The gap to the breakaway is over three minutes. Chickenfeed? Perhaps only for Pogacar. Simon Yates and Jorgensen have dropped off the breakaway, and that's bad news for Visma. Arensen has two minutes on the pack. Campanaerts is the last Vingegaard bag-man, battling himself to stay in the pack. 4.29pm CEST 16:29 15km to go: This stage was last a summit finish in 1989, and won by Scotland's Robert Millar, now called Pippa York. The race leader that evening was Laurent Fignon, soon to fall victim to the closest finish in Tour history. Lemond was just seven seconds behind. He would need just eight. 4.24pm CEST 16:24 20km to go: Lenny Martinez took eight points in the polka points race, and that means he has only dropped two all day. A big day for him. Let's see what Luchon Superbagneres brings. Via climbfinders: 'Luchon Superbagnères is a climb in the region French Pyrenees. It is 17.1km long and bridges 1161 vertical meters with an average gradient of 6.8%, resulting in a difficulty score of 892. The top of the ascent is located at 1795 meters above sea level' 4.20pm CEST 16:20 25km to go: The descent is rapid, the kilometres eaten up, the gaps promisingly large. It's at 20km that the climbing starts to begin before the true final haul begins. 4.15pm CEST 16:15 33km to go: Arensman, today's rocket man, has led them over the Peyresourde. In 2007, Alexander Vinokourov led over the top. Somewhere in the race caravan, he's leading Astana. His feat in 2007 was expunged for one of the odder doping sagas. The gap in 2025 is 1' 25'. Marc Soler is leading UAE's team over the top. They are two minutes behind the Martinez/Kuss group. Down to Louchon they go… Updated at 4.18pm CEST 4.07pm CEST 16:07 35km to go: Yates seems to step off as the groups join up. He's capable of being a lone wolf as he showed to such effect in that incredible Giro win. Ben O'Connor starts to lose pace, too. Back in the yellow jersey group, Nils Pollitt, having pulled the peloton along, is sat up, done for the day. But not for Le Tour. Big smile on his face as he clocks off. The gap to the very front is under three minutes. Riding for Big Sir Jim's Ineos, Thymen Arensman, has gone for it, and ends up taking 40 seconds off the rest. And climbing…what an effort. 3.50pm CEST 15:50 4okm to go: Calm before the storm, though the maillot jaune group is now back just three minutes, a totally bridgeable gap. Kuss and Simon Yates are up the field for Vingegaard, and can pace him to meet Pogacar for the final boss fight. Kuss is in the lead group, Yates the second group under 25 seconds back. A reunion surely imminent. 3.33pm CEST 15:33 50mkm to go: Behind the leaders, two groups – one is 1'50', the yellow is 3' 31', and Milan is just over 16 minutes back. The hard work starts soon, though. Into the valley the leading trio ride. Peyresourde is next, a category one climb. 3.27pm CEST 15:27 55km to go: Martinez, not so brave – or foolish - a descender – is caught by Kuss and Paret-Peintre, and a trio forms that can work together over the Peyresourde. Race radio informs the riders that this is a 'technical' descent. 3.25pm CEST 15:25 60km to go: Martinez, the lone rider, takes five points at the peak of the Aspin. To quote the sponsors, a famed hypermarché: 'He is thus the first rider to reach the 50-point mark and will receive the promised bonus to celebrate 50 years of the polka dot jersey!' Perhaps a free run on a pick n' mix, or those small bottles of beer they do. Updated at 4.46pm CEST 3.14pm CEST 15:14 65km to go: It's a 5km climb, the Aspin, and the people are out in force, and with far less mist to negotiate. Martinez is looking good on the climbs, less good on the descent. Kuss is 50 seconds back. Pogacar is looking comfortable enough as his team leads him up the climb. Updated at 3.42pm CEST 3.03pm CEST 15:03 70km to go: That Kuss group is closing on Martinez at just under 50 seconds. The Col d'Aspin beckons Martinez as he starts the second category climb and looks in good nick. He has 2,500 of climbing to complete by the end of the day. The Pogacar group, led by UAE lieutenants, is almost four minutes behind. Updated at 3.04pm CEST 2.49pm CEST 14:49 80km to go: Sepp Kuss, the American is in a pack just over a minute behind Martinez. Pogacar is four minutes behind. The weather has blown a hole in the race. They will regroup in the valley then…more climbing. 2.43pm CEST 14:43 90km to go: As the pack climbs over the summit, Julian Alaphilippe, the French veteran, grabs a cardboard sign to thrust down his jersey for warmth on the descent. A lack of L'Equipe newsprint for him to use. The digital media has many byproducts, not all of them as useful as that. There is sun at the bottom of the valley but first they must negotiate a squall of showers and some decidedly risky, skiddy ground. Michael Woods was second over the summit but nobody is pelting down the descent. It's far too dangerous. Meanwhile, the grupetto, featuring Milan, is dropping back and back. Updated at 3.14pm CEST
Express Tribune
20-07-2025
- Sport
- Express Tribune
Arensman soloes to Tour stage victory
Dutch rider Thymen Arensman climbed to victory on the gruelling stage 14 of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees on Saturday as defending champion Tadej Pogacar extended his overall race lead. Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, who had been third overall, pulled out of the race on the day's first climb of the daunting 2180m altitude Tourmalet. The Belgian Soudal Quick-Step rider appeared exhausted after Friday's uphill time trial. Arensman attacked on the third of four mountains on a colossal climb day while Slovenian Pogacar outsprinted Jonas Vingegaard for second just over a minute behind the winner. Crossing the line in the mist at 1840m altitude, Arensman flung himself to the ground exhausted after taking a first win on this Tour for British team Ineos. The 25-year-old produced a virtuoso climb amidst suffocating packs of near hysterical fans who had waited all day for the peloton to pass. Behind him Pogacar fought off a string of attacks from his arch rival Vingegaard on a day the Slovenian never looked like attacking for the win. Winner of the past two stages Pogacar pounced for the line from 50 metres with his trademark kick gaining another six seconds on the Dane. Pogacar, overall race winner in 2020, 2021 and 2024, now leads Vingegaard by 4min 13sec with Florian Lipowitz moving into third place at 7min 53sec. German Lipovitz of Red Bull rode on Pogacar's wheel until Dane Vingegaard, who won back-to-back Tour titles in 2022 and 2023, had attacked late on. After three days in the Pyrenees the riders next have a hilly stage 15 over 169.3km from Muret to the medieval fortified town of Carcassonne. Spectator hit by Ineos-Grenadiers team car An Ineos-Grenadiers team car hit and knocked down a spectator during the 14th stage of the Tour de France cycle race, TV footage showed on Saturday. The team car was in the middle of the road to the Col de Peyresourde, about 200 metres from the top of the ascent, when it struck the spectator, who was cheering the riders on. Organisers told Reuters they were not aware of the accident while Ineos-Grenadiers were not immediately available for comment. Olympic champion Evenepoel pulls out of Tour de France Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel pulled out of the Tour de France during Saturday's stage 14, a gruelling climb of the Tourmalet mountain in the Pyrenees. The double Olympic champion was third in the overall standings and had won stage five in the 21-stage race, but appeared exhausted after Friday's uphill time trial. The Soudal Quick-Step rider won both the Olympic road race and time trial gold in Paris, shortly after finishing third at the 2024 Tour de France and claimed the best young rider's white jersey. But an accident in Brussels in December involving a postal delivery van scuppered the 25-year-old's preparation for this year's Tour. The opening stages were contested near the Belgian border, but Evenepoel lost a minute of the first day after being caught in a cross wind split. This tactical error deprived him of a golden chance of taking the leader's yellow jersey in the first week, where he would pulverise the field on a 33km time trial. The team will now base its attention around fellow Belgian rider Tim Merlier, who has already won two sprint stages on this Tour.
NBC Sports
19-07-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Evenepoel, Skjelmose abandon Tour de France
Not all cyclists had a good day during Stage 14 of the Tour de France, including Remco Evenepoel, who abandoned the Tour while struggling through a brutal climb, and Mattias Skjelmose, who hurt his arm in a nasty crash.
