Tadej Pogačar is auctioning the jersey he wore to win Milan-San Remo earlier this month, and it is already set to make big bucks. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG top, which features Pogačar‘s world champion’s rainbow bands, as well as the signatures of the Slovenian and his team-mates, already has a leading bid of €60,100 ($68,800 or £52,000).
Pogačar won the race in a photo finish sprint with Tom Pidcock (Pinarello–Q36.5 Pro Cycling), but not before he had crashed on the run-in to the climb of the Cipressa. He was able to make his way back through the bunch and make the winning move on the climb, but the jersey bears the marks of that fall, adding to its story as a piece of cycling history.
The auction, which is running on the Galabid site, featured a starting bid of €1,000 and will run until the beginning of Paris-Roubaix on 12 April. The winning bid will be doubled by Pogačar himself, and the proceeds will go to the Tadej Pogačar Foundation, which has a wide overall remit but in this case will use the money to help children and young people in need, according to the auction write-up.
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It says: “At Milano–Sanremo 2026, Tadej Pogačar crashed 32 km before the finish, continued with a damaged bike and a torn jersey, and still won.
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