Is this the Colnago bike on which Tadej Pogačar will cement his triple crown?

Colnago V4Rs Tadej for 2024 worlds
(Image credit: Colnago)

Racing for Slovenia, Tadej Pogačar will take to the start line for the men’s world championship road race in Zurich on Sunday on a special, limited edition Colnago V4Rs Tadej.   

Pogačar is hot favourite to win the road race on Sunday, adding to his wins in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France earlier this year. If he wins, he will be only the third male cyclist after Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche to to take cycling's triple crown by winning the Giro, Tour and Worlds in one year. Annemiek van Vleuten is the only woman to achieve the equivalent in women’s racing.

Paul has been on two wheels since he was in his teens and he's spent much of the time since writing about bikes and the associated tech. He's a road cyclist at heart but his adventurous curiosity means Paul has been riding gravel since well before it was cool, adapting his cyclo-cross bike to ride all-day off-road epics and putting road kit to the ultimate test along the way. Paul has contributed to Cyclingnews' tech coverage for a few years, helping to maintain the freshness of our buying guides and deals content, as well as writing a number of our voucher code pages. 

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