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It’s hard to believe that the 2025 men’s and women’s WorldTour circuits kick off in just a few weeks. It seems like only yesterday that Kasia Niewiadoma burst into euphoric tears atop Alpe d’Huez after winning the Tour de France Femmes. Or Tadej Pogačar won one of any number of races with a dominating, long-range attack. Or Mathieu van der Poel and Lotte Kopecky did the rainbow jerseys proud at the cobbled Classics.

There were season-altering crashes, that incredible, down-to-the-wire duel at the Giro d’Italia Women. There were Olympic shocks and triumphs. History was made at the men’s Tour de France, while Grace Brown mic-dropped her career in memorable fashion. How do you sum up the arc of a whole season of racing: dozens of events across hundreds of race days, and thousands of individual stories of victory and defeat?

You can’t. This is just one person’s imperfect, incomplete impression of an incredible season. There are many more moments I’ve forgotten or failed to include, but these are some of the ones that stood out to me. What else was there? Let us know in the comments.
There are no bigger superstars in the sport than Tadej Pogačar and Lotte Kopecky. The Slovenian signaled the dominance of his 2024 season from his very first race. Strade Bianche, held March 2, marked Kopecky’s third win of the season.

Both riders were historically great. Kopecky won 16 races – one out of every three times she pinned on a number – and podiumed six more times. No, she didn’t win the Olympic road race. But she repeated as World Champion, almost won her first Grand Tour, and finally got that Paris-Roubaix cobble.

Pogačar, of course, was even better if that’s possible. In 58 days of racing across 12 events, he won 25 times, becoming the first male rider to win the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, and World Road Championships since 1987. He was stunningly dominant, winning seemingly at will and with attacks from distances that would be ridiculous for any other racer.