{"id":354271,"date":"2025-12-18T23:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354271\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:34:15","slug":"tadej-pogacar-just-committed-the-fashion-faux-pas-he-swore-he-wouldnt-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354271\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar just committed the fashion faux pas he swore he wouldn\u2019t do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar may win almost everything he enters\u2014but he\u2019s also known for his quiet respect toward other top riders. But on Wednesday, he may have done something he tries to avoid.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Rune Herregodts told Het Nieuwsblad<\/a> about a little-known habit of the current road world champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring training, we sometimes switch from a traditional bike to our time trial bike during a session. Tadej always changes his jersey at that moment so he doesn\u2019t wear the rainbow jersey on his time trial bike,\u201d he said. \u201cHe also hides the world champion stripes on his shorts by folding them over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gesture was made out of respect for fellow star Remco Evenepoel\u2013the then, and now, the current TT champ.<\/p>\n

But on Wednesday, Poga\u010dar<\/a> was spotted on the road doing exactly what he\u2019d sworn he wouldn\u2019t. Egads! The Team UAE Emirates trained on his TT bike wearing the full rainbow kit, rainbow shorts and all.<\/p>\n

It reminded some of the time when there was no TT championship\u2013only road. Which meant yes, the road world champion would also have a matching skinsuit. Well, to be fair\u2026the road world champion does have a skinsuit, or speedsuit\u2026but not to be worn in time trials.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pogi is already laying out his 2026 campaign. Whether or not he will one-up his 2025 season\u2013which was remarkable, is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n

He will kick things off at Strade Bianche before heading to Milan-Sanremo and Ronde van Vlaanderen. And then, he will try to win Paris-Roubaix\u2013something he seems very keen on doing. Pogi was out doing a recon recently in some pretty miserable weather. Then he will head to Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge to round out the Classics.<\/p>\n

Afterward, Poga\u010dar will test himself on new terrain with the Tour of Romandie and Tour de Suisse. These are both stage races he has yet to tackle. Then, he will defend his Tour de France crown in July. Beyond the Tour, the 2026 UCI road world championships in Montreal are already on his radar, though his post-Tour calendar remains a mystery.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the sartorial slip-up. Cycling blogger Luk\u00e1\u0161 Ronald Luk\u00e1cs, who is always on top of jerseys and kit was on the ball and posted an image on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar may win almost everything he enters\u2014but he\u2019s also known for his quiet respect toward other top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,90387,5901,82,1422,25751],"class_list":{"0":"post-354271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-rainbow-jersey","12":"tag-remco-evenepoel","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tadej-pogacar","15":"tag-world-champion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}