Tadej Pogacar is red-hot favourite to match a feat only ever achieved by cycling icon Eddy Merckx as the Slovenian superstar bids to win the Tour of Lombardy for the fifth consecutive year.
No-one but Merckx has ever won three Monument races in the same season but world champion Pogacar is on course to cap another remarkable year by equalling that record at the "Race of the Falling Leaves" on Saturday.
