Slovenian adds to victories in Tour and GiroAustralia’s Ben O’Connor second in Zurich
Ripping up the script is the Tadej Pogacar way, and on Sunday the Slovene’s unique approach to bike racing won him the world road race championship in Zurich, thanks to an audacious, borderline foolhardy attack 100km from the finish.
Finishing solo, just 33sec ahead of the Australian Ben O’Connor, Pogacar joined Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche, the only others to have landed men’s cycling’s toughest prize, the “triple crown” of Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and world road title in the same season.
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