Waiting for autumn classics, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar At just 26 years old, he is looking to complete a great season. After dominating with an iron fist every race he’s entered this season so far (he’s won all but two), ‘Pogi’ looking to dominate the elite men’s road test this Sunday.
This Sunday at Switzerland This will be the sixth road test of a World Championship that Pogacar competes with, with third place last year as its best result.
With permission from his main rivals, in which the Belgian stands out Remco Evenepoel and the dutch Mathieu Van der PoelPogacar is the main candidate for the gold medal and to become the new world champion.
If this is achieved, it will achieve a historic milestone, the Cycling the Triple Crownwhich has several meanings, but the most common is the one that refers to the able-bodied cyclist win the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the World Championship in the same season.
A triplet achieved by only two cyclists in the entire history, which already indicates the difficulty of the achievement: the Belgian Eddy Merckx and the Irishman Stephen Roche. The corridor of Dundrum He reached the top in 1987, in the only World Championship he won -he also achieved bronze in 1984-, going on to compete in nine World Cup editions.
For his part, the true ‘Cannibal’ of cycling He achieved this in 1974, his third and final Giro-Tour double: 1970, 1972 and 1974, and won two more world champion titles, in 1966 and 1971.
Source: La Verdad
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