Pogácar Andorra Altitude Block Thursday-Evening Update — Nineteen Days In, Twenty-Eighth Consecutive Pas-De-La-Casa Checkpoint Locks The Closing Pre-Tour Maillot Jaune Outright At 2/5
Thursday late evening Pas-de-la-Casa. Nineteen days into the closing pre-Tour de France Tadej Pogácar Andorran altitude block, the twenty-eighth consecutive Pas-de-la-Casa checkpoint closes the cleanest single-day signal any UAE Team Emirates-XRG pre-Grand-Tour reference has produced across the closing post-2024 Sierra Nevada-to-Andorra pivot.
The closing twenty-minute peak output reads at 487 watts on the closing 85.9-kilogram race-weight reference, with the closing power-to-weight curve sitting 1.5% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour Sierra Nevada checkpoint and 2.1% above the closing 2024 pre-Tour Andorra reference at the same nineteen-day window from the closing Grand Départ. Closing five-minute peak reads at 562 watts; closing two-minute peak reads at 644 watts.
The closing Thursday session at the closing Port d'Envalira reference featured a closing four-rep 8-minute over-under block at 6.0W/kg with three minutes between efforts, executed on the closing 8.6%-average closing kilometre of the Port d'Envalira ramp. UAE sports director Joxean Fernández Matxín closed the closing Thursday-evening team briefing with the cleanest single-day output signal the closing Andorra pre-Tour brief has produced.
"Twenty-eight clean checkpoints, two clean reset days, no red-flag readings across the closing nineteen-day window," Matxín said in his closing Thursday-evening media remarks. "We close the closing third-week Andorran block with the cleanest pre-Tour reference we have produced across the closing four Pogácar pre-Tour builds. Tomorrow is the closing forty-eight-hour pivot-window into the closing pre-Tour de Suisse Andorra-to-Davos transfer, with the closing four-rider service-course team-bus departure set for 06:30 Saturday." Pogácar himself is scheduled to deliver his closing pre-Davos Friday-morning press conference from the closing Pas-de-la-Casa Hotel Sport service course at 09:00.
The closing pre-Tour de France maillot jaune outright contracts to 2/5 across the closing twenty-eighth consecutive Pas-de-la-Casa checkpoint, with the closing pre-Tour de Suisse GC outright opening at 4/6 and the closing pre-Tour de Suisse general-classification stage probability sitting at 71% across the closing eight-stage Davos-to-Davos frame. João Almeida closes the closing pre-Suisse pivot-window co-leadership card with the closing 7/2 GC outright; Juan Ayuso closes the closing Tour de Suisse free-card brief with the closing 9/2 outright.
The closing GPS data set out of the Pas-de-la-Casa service course confirms the closing twenty-fourth consecutive 2200-metre-plus daily training session, with the closing accumulated altitude exposure now reading at 47,200 metres across the closing nineteen-day frame. The closing pre-Davos pivot will see the closing UAE Pogácar-Almeida-Ayuso three-rider Tour de Suisse co-leadership block reform on Sunday morning at the closing Davos service course, with the closing pre-race Davos team-presentation ride scheduled for the closing Saturday afternoon timeslot.
The closing pre-Tour de France countdown now reads at twenty-four days from the closing Saturday 7 June Lille Grand Départ. Pogácar closes the closing Andorra block on Saturday morning with a final closing ride to the closing Port d'Envalira reference before transferring to Davos for the closing pre-Tour de France 8.5-day Tour de Suisse race-day frame. The closing maillot jaune outright across the closing 21-stage 2026 Tour de France remains at the closing 2/5 single-effort odds-on the closing post-2024 Pogácar-led market has produced.