Tadej Pogacar turns up to Slovenian award ceremony in a haircut by 15-year-old rider from his own youth team!

The highlight of the celebratory evening marking the 75th anniversary of KD Rog in Ljubljana's Grand Plaza Hotel was the awarding of Rog's Golden Bicycle which was (unsurprisingly) won by Tadej Pogacar, a graduate of Rog's cycling school. He enjoyed the flattering prize together with his fiancee Urska Zigart, who received the same honor in women's category.

Naturally, for such an important event, you have to dress up from head to toe. Tadej Pogacar is well aware of that and so he entrusted the arrangement of his hair to... a barely 15-year-old hairdresser!

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The day before the gala event, Tadej visited the younger cyclists who train and compete for the Pogi Team in Ljubljana. Questions were thrown at him regarding his successful season, which went down in Slovenian history. Time passed quickly, and Tadej then informed his younger colleagues that he unfortunately had to leave, as he would like to go to the hairdresser before they all closed.

He quickly got a hint that Maj Štepic, a fifteen-year-old boy who offered Pogi an affordable but excellent haircut.

Pogi, who reportedly makes no less than €8 millions per year, had no choice but to accept the offer. As a result of the collaboration, a completely new hairstyle was created on Pogi's head. Judge the result for yourself:

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