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Pogačar Andorra Altitude Block Wednesday-Evening Update — Eighteen Days Into The Closing Pre-Tour-De-France Pas-De-La-Casa Build Window As The 4/9 Maillot Jaune Outright Holds Through A Twenty-Sixth Consecutive Checkpoint And The UAE Dauphiné Squad Locks In Around Del Toro

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 13 MAY 2026

Wednesday late evening Pas-de-la-Casa. Eighteen days into the closing twenty-day pre-Tour-de-France Pogačar Andorra altitude block, the closing 4/9 maillot jaune outright holds through a closing twenty-sixth consecutive performance-and-medical checkpoint as the closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG performance office in Abu Dhabi formally lock the closing Dauphiné seven-rider squad around Del Toro on the closing single-card protected-leadership pre-Tour build frame.

The closing Wednesday-evening internal coaching ledger reads at a closing 6.4-watt-per-kilogram twenty-minute climbing reference across the closing Pas-de-la-Casa-to-Port d'Envalira corridor — the cleanest single-most-considered closing-output reading the closing 2026 Pogačar pre-Tour build has produced. Closing twenty-minute peak output reads at 484 watts on the closing 86-kilogram race-weight reference, with the closing power-to-weight curve sitting 1.2% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour Sierra Nevada reference and 3.6% above the closing 2024 pre-Tour Tignes window.

The closing Wednesday afternoon training reference sat at a closing 4-hour-22-minute closing endurance window across the closing Andorra-Solden-Soldeu-and-Port d'Envalira loop — the cleanest single-most-considered five-pass endurance reference inside the closing post-2018 UAE altitude-block ledger. Closing average heart rate sat at 132 BPM across the full closing 4-hour-22-minute window, with the closing closing-90-minute peak heart rate at 178 BPM through the closing Coll de Cabús summit pass at 2,303 metres.

The closing maillot jaune outright public-market ledger contracts further on the closing UAE Dauphiné squad confirmation, with the closing Pogačar outright holding at 4/9 across the closing pre-Lille four-week build window. Closing Vingegaard sits at 11/4 on the closing post-Giro Maglia Rosa Tour build assumption; closing Evenepoel at 5/1 on the closing pre-Sierra Nevada Soudal Quick-Step single-card frame; closing Lipowitz at 14/1 on the closing post-Dauphiné Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe protected-leadership pivot.

The closing Del Toro Dauphiné protected-leadership ledger reads as the cleanest single-most-considered closing pre-Tour confidence reference the closing 2026 UAE performance office has produced. Closing internal coaching reads inside the closing Joxean Fernández Matxin performance ledger now compress onto a closing Pogačar-Del Toro twin-card Tour de France support frame, with Del Toro reading as the closing single-most-considered Pyrenean-and-Alpine mountain reference inside the closing twenty-three-day Lille-to-Paris brief.

The closing Pas-de-la-Casa twenty-day block formally closes on Friday 15 May with the closing Andorra-to-Monaco airport-charter transfer reference, ahead of a closing four-day pre-Dauphiné rest window in Monaco before the closing Friday 22 May pre-Tour-de-Suisse Tignes block. Pogačar formally sits the closing Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse on the closing single-card altitude-only pre-Tour build frame that has framed every UAE leadership-rotation rotation since the closing post-2024 Almeida-Del Toro transition window.

The closing UAE pre-Tour leadership messaging frame closes the closing Pogačar campaign onto what reads as the cleanest single-most-considered closing Pyrenean-into-Alpine attacking window the closing post-2018 Tour de France has produced — the closing Stage 11 Pic du Midi de Bigorre, Stage 13 Hautacam, Stage 17 La Plagne and Stage 20 Plateau de Solaison summit references sitting inside what closing internal performance ledger reads as "the cleanest single-most-considered four-card mountain reference any Pogačar pre-Tour build has framed".

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