A mysterious account named “mou” has leaked on a cycling forum in March training information about Tadej Pogacar that were really close to what the Slovenian produced as power in stages 14 and 15 of this Tour de France.
It seems that Tadej Pogacar changed his trainer this year. After a long collaboration with Inigo San Millan, a doctor that worked in the past for teams like ONCE, Saunier Duval and Astana, the Slovenian rider chose another coach for 2024 season, in the person of Javier Sola.
“Matxin is the best scout in the world and has top contacts in the world, as a tactician he is 0 and persistently interferes in the work of DS”, says the alleged UAE insider.
“The only DS expert in that team at an acceptable level is Fabio Baldato”.
“If Pogacar is so far was trained by a quasi-trainer [San Millan] who only prescribed endurance rides of 5W/kg and FTP 15 min intervals 2 times a week after zone 2 and the rest of his training was based on prescribing training from training peaks, imagine what can happen when a top-level coach takes over [Sola]”
“If one Yates progressed from 32 years old after 1 year of working with him, how much Pogi will progress, UAE has the best TT setup in the world, Pogacar finally has a coach who trains him with a Core device for heat training and for the first time you could see Pogacar in Strade Bianche to wear Core attached to a heart rate strap, he finally has real training and intervals for hills for the first time in his career and he will have properly conducted altitude training after the Giro”.
“I can’t tell you how I know all that, but believe me I have insight firsthand in all that, how else would I show you Pogacar’s part from training on 24.2.2024 and that his 349w is 5.33w/kg as a base training and FTP 431w, that he will be 20% better is frankly a little too hasty, but if could predict for the Giro Pogacar will be at 65 kg, at both TTs he will win, at 15 min he will have 7.3 w/kg, at 20 min 7 w/kg, at 30 min hill 6.7 and at 40+ min hill he will have 6.5 w/ kg and on the Tour kg less and the strength is the same”.
What’s interesting about this “insider” and what partially legitimizes his “leaks” is that he is followed on his X account by Jeroen Swart, who is Performance Coordinator at UAE Emirates.
“Pogacar does not dope, that is 100% for you, there is no greater talent that can appear, he is the GOAT who finally shines when he was taken over by an excellent coach from 16.11.2023 and who will only improve in the years to come and finally UAE ends to be an amateur team”, says another post of “mou”.
