Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar won an epic men's road race at the cycling world championships on Sunday going solo from 66km out in the 267km slog over the hills around Kigali. Behind the World Cycling Championships: Pedalling to survive To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. The boys tried to stop me but I felt so good," said Pogacar, a four time Tour de France winner. For Pogacar the gorilla mascot he picked up for his win may not be the last of yet another dominant season. In the women's race Saturday, rank outsider Magdeleine Vallieres of Canada pulled off a surprise win.