Cycle racing

Two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar returned to competition in style after suffering a wrist fracture in April. He was in a league of his own in the national championship time trial on 22 June, finishing more than five minutes ahead of his nearest rival.

Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar, two-times Tour de France winner, remains No. 1 in the world, topping the UCI men's road cycling world ranking for a continuos 90 weeks and 100 weeks in total.

Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has recently recovered from a wrist injury he sustained when he fell during the Liege-Bastogne-Liege race.

Primož Roglič raised the Giro d'Italia 2023 trophy in Rome on 28 May after securing the victory in the time trial up the Monte Lussari just across the Slovenian border in the penultimate stage to take the pink jersey away from Brit Geraint Thomas.

Primož Roglič won the decisive penultimate stage of the Giro d'Italia on 27 May to snatch the leader's jersey away from Briton Geraint Thomas, helped by massive support from Slovenian fans in the 18.6 km time trial up the Monte Lussari just across the border.

Slovenian rider Primož Roglič is mounting an attempt at his first overall victory at the Giro d'Italia, arguably cycling's second most prestigious Grand Tour after the Tour de France. The 33-year-old is one of the two top favourites at the three-week race, his main rival being Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel.

Slovenia's cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar won the 87th edition of the Fleche Wallonne race on 19 April to become only the seventh rider in history to claim victory at all three Ardennes Classics.

Slovenian cycling star Tadej Pogačar bagged the 11th win of the season on 16 April when he soloed over 30 kilometres to win the Amstel Gold Race, a one-day classic.

The 24-year-old UAE Emirates rider finished in just over six hours, 37 seconds ahead of Ireland's Ben Healy. Tom Pidcock settled for third place.

Slovenian rider Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won the Tour of Flanders on 2 April, his fourth victory at long one-day races known as Monuments.

The two-time Tour de France winner won the race with a solo attack in the last twenty kilometres on the 274-kilometre race to finish 17 seconds ahead of last year's winner Mathieu van der Poel.

Mathieu van der Poel won Milan-San Remo on March 18 to claim the first 'Monument' of the season and the race his grandfather Raymond Poulidor took 62 years ago.

Tadej Pogačar and Primož Roglič switched places to secure the titles of two elite UCI World Tour stage races for a second year in a row on 12 March. Tadej Pogačar took the overall title in his Paris-Nice debut as Primož Roglič won Tirreno-Adriatico.