Pogačar Andorra Altitude Block Thursday-Morning Update — Nineteen Days Into The Closing Pre-Tour-De-France Pas-De-La-Casa Build Window As The 4/9 Maillot Jaune Outright Contracts To 2/5 Through A Twenty-Seventh Consecutive Checkpoint And The Closing Tuesday Port-D'Envalira-Soldeu Loop Lifts The Closing Endurance Window To Four-Hours-Thirty-Six
Thursday early morning Pas-de-la-Casa. Nineteen days into the closing pre-Tour-de-France Pogačar Andorra altitude block, fifty-one days from the closing Saturday 4 July Lille Grande Départ. The closing twenty-minute peak output now reads at 486 watts on the closing 86-kilogram race-weight reference, with the closing power-to-weight curve sitting 1.4% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour Sierra Nevada reference and 3.8% above the closing 2024 pre-Tour Tignes window. The closing 4/9 maillot jaune outright contracts to 2/5 across the closing major UK and Italian books on a closing twenty-seventh consecutive clean checkpoint reading.
The closing Tuesday Port-d'Envalira-Soldeu endurance loop closed at four-hours-thirty-six on a closing 1,718-metre average altitude reference across the closing 137-kilometre Pyrenean corridor. The closing peak output across the closing Port-d'Envalira summit reference now reads at 6.84 watts per kilogram on the closing 31-minute climbing-window reference, 1.7% above the closing 2025 Tignes Col-du-Petit-Saint-Bernard reading and 2.9% above the closing 2024 Sierra Nevada Cumbres Verdes reading. The closing post-loop recovery window reads at 92 hours since the closing Sunday Itzulia training-corridor block.
The closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG UAE Team Emirates-XRG performance-staff brief from the closing Pas-de-la-Casa Hotel Sport Wellness now formally locks the closing Stage 12 Toulouse-Luchon-Superbagnères first-mountain Tour reference at the closing single-card protected-leadership signature output curve. The closing Sergeant operating-model brief opens the closing post-Dauphiné-handover window with Pogačar absent from the closing 7-14 June Voiron-Voreppe pre-Tour reference, and the closing 21 June Slovenian-national-championship Ljubljana road-race brief carries the closing single-card pre-Tour build-out reference.
The closing combined Tour-de-France-and-Vuelta-Tour double signature output curve now reads at 67% on the closing internal expected-value model line, the cleanest single-rider pre-Tour readiness reference any post-2024 Pogačar pre-Tour build has produced. The closing 2026 Tour de France pre-race public-market ledger contracts to Pogačar 2/5, Vingegaard 4/1, Evenepoel 9/1, Del Toro 14/1, Lipowitz 16/1, with Almeida formally sat across the closing post-Romandie 2026 calendar.
The closing Andorra block carries the closing post-Sierra-Nevada signature into the closing Stage 12 Superbagnères mountain-summit reference, with the closing 2025 Tour Stage 14 Pla-d'Adet output reading at 6.92 watts per kilogram across a closing 38-minute climbing-window peak. The closing Pas-de-la-Casa apartment-block — formally booked through the closing Saturday 24 May reset — carries Pogačar through the closing Tuesday 19 May Andorran-national-championship ITT preparation window, with the closing 24-kilometre Sant Julià-de-Lòria ITT reference opening at Pogačar 4/11 outright across the closing British and French books.
The closing power-to-weight curve sitting 1.4% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour Sierra Nevada reference mirrors the closing post-2022 Vingegaard-Hautacam reference that closed the closing 2022 Tour Stage 18 Hautacam-summit-attack reading at 7.04 watts per kilogram on the closing 1.8-kilometre punchy-ramp reference. The closing 2026 Pogačar twenty-minute peak output of 486 watts on the closing 86-kilogram race-weight reference reads as 5.65 watts per kilogram on the closing twenty-minute reference, with the closing thirty-minute climbing-window output reading at 6.74 watts per kilogram on the closing Port-d'Envalira loop.
The closing Andorran-national-championship Tuesday 19 May ITT defence places Pogačar onto a closing single-card pre-Tour ITT signature output reference at the closing 24-kilometre Sant Julià-de-Lòria circuit, the cleanest pre-Tour ITT brief any post-2024 Slovenian Pogačar pre-Tour build has produced. The closing twin-card Andorran-and-Slovenian national-championship brief — with the closing 21 June Ljubljana road-race defence at 1/7 outright — closes the closing 2026 Pogačar pre-Tour calendar at the cleanest single-card pre-Tour readiness reference the closing post-Romandie 2026 calendar has produced.
The closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG Dauphiné squad — confirmed Wednesday evening as Del Toro, Sivakov, Soler, Vine, Bjerg, Politt and Arrieta — closes the closing single-most-considered pre-Tour protected-leadership ledger at the cleanest single-card pre-Tour readiness output across the closing post-Pogačar-pivot reset. The closing combined Pogačar-and-Del-Toro twin-card Tour signature output curve reads at 81% across the closing combined Stage 12 Superbagnères and Stage 17 Col-de-la-Loze mountain-summit references, the cleanest pre-Tour twin-card output curve any post-2024 UAE pre-Tour build has produced.