The world champion, Tadej Pogacar , pulled ahead of the 19-year-old French debutant Paul Seixas in the final climb to secure his third straight Liège-Bastogne-Liège title on Sunday, his fourth overall victory in the race. Pogacar finished the 259.5km race in five hours, 50 minutes and 28 seconds to win the 13th Monument title of his career and his third of the year after the Tour of Flanders and Milan-San Remo. “It means a lot to win again one of the biggest races of the year, of cycling … there’s a lot of pressure on me to deliver, I’m really happy that we succeeded,” said Pogacar, who is now one Liège title short of Belgium’s Eddy Merckx, who won the race a record five times between 1969 and 1975. Seixas kept up with Pogacar when the Slovene stuck to the plan that brought him success in the last two years and launched his attack on the climb at the Côte de la Redoute, staying on the four-time Tour de France winner’s wheel for nearly 20km while others fell behind.…