Tadej Pogacar luxury watch thieves given four-year jail sentence

Tadej Pogačar on the attack at the Tour of Flanders
Tadej Pogačar on the attack at the Tour of Flanders (Image credit: Getty Images)

A French court has sentenced two men who stole Tadej Pogačar’s watch during this year's Paris-Nice to four years in prison.

The men stole the Richard Mille watch, with a reported retail price of 165,000 euros, from a team hotel in Valbonne during the race in early March.

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.