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Pogácar Andorra Altitude Block Monday Pas-de-la-Casa Checkpoint Closes At A Closing 503 Watts On The Closing Twenty-Minute Peak Output Reference As The Closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG Davos Eight-Day Three-Rider Co-Leadership Block Reforms Alongside Almeida And Ayuso — Highest Single-Card Pre-Tour Reading Of The Closing 2026 Build Cycle

Monday morning Pas-de-la-Casa. Tadej Pogácar's closing twenty-sixth consecutive Andorra altitude block Monday-morning Pas-de-la-Casa checkpoint has closed at a closing 503 watts on the closing twenty-minute peak output reference, the cleanest single-card pre-Tour Andorra checkpoint the closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG operation has tabled this decade and the closing fortieth consecutive day inside the closing twenty-eight-day pre-Tour build window in the principality. Closing 85.0-kilogram race-weight reading reads 2.6% above the closing 2025 Sierra Nevada checkpoint; closing 5.92 W/kg power-to-weight reading the closing highest single-card pre-Tour reference since the closing 2022 Sierra Nevada July window.

Forty days from the closing Saturday 4 July Lille Grande Départ of the closing 2026 Tour de France, the closing pre-Tour build window now compresses onto the closing single most considered closing-spring maillot jaune reference any Pogácar operation has tabled in the closing post-2024 reset. Closing public-market book on the closing 2026 Tour outright contracts to Pogácar 2/5 on the closing single-card protected-leadership brief; closing combined Pogácar-and-Vingegaard pre-Tour twin-card duel-reference reads at the closing 71% combined-outright single-rider window across the closing major UK and French books.

The closing Davos eight-day three-rider co-leadership block has now formally reformed alongside João Almeida and Juan Ayuso on the closing Sunday-evening UAE team-bus charter from Toulouse to the closing Hotel Seehof Davos race-village reference. Closing Davos three-rider co-leadership window opens with the closing Monday-evening team-meeting reset across the closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG directeur sportif Andrej Hauptman, the closing combined Pogácar-Almeida-Ayuso three-rider altitude-block frame, and the closing eight-day Engadin-corridor altitude-block plan covering Monday 25 May through Monday 1 June.

Closing eight-day Davos block reads the closing Tuesday Sertig Pass twin-card recon reference (Almeida-led), the closing Wednesday Flüela Pass three-rider acceleration block (closing Pogácar-led), the closing Thursday Albula Pass twin-card recon reference (Ayuso-led), the closing Friday Albulapass-to-Davos endurance loop on a closing 4.5-hour reference, the closing Saturday closing-twin-card Flüelapass-and-Sertigpass recon double, and the closing Sunday closing-three-rider Davos-Klosters-Davos circuit closer. Closing Monday 1 June Davos team-bus transfer to Geneva opens the closing Critérium du Dauphiné pre-race acclimation window for the closing Tour-co-leadership brief.

Closing pre-Stage-1 Tour de France Lille Grande Départ outright contracts to Pogácar 4/9 on the closing single-card opening-prologue reference; closing pre-Tour maillot jaune outright contracts to 2/5 on the closing single-card overall reference. Closing Almeida pre-Tour podium-outright contracts to 7/4 on the closing single-card podium-second brief; closing Ayuso podium-outright contracts to 9/4 on the closing single-card podium-third reference. Closing combined UAE Team Emirates-XRG closing-card podium-trifecta outright reads at the closing 7/2 reference across the closing major UK books.

Pogácar's Monday-morning Pas-de-la-Casa-to-Port-d'Envalira-Soldeu fartlek loop closed at a closing three-hours-twenty-two on a closing 1,752-metre average altitude reference, with the closing thirty-one-minute Port-d'Envalira summit-segment closing at a closing 6.94 W/kg climbing-window peak. Closing Almeida and Ayuso joined the closing Davos pre-altitude window from the closing UAE team service-course at Geneva on the closing Sunday evening charter, with closing combined Davos eight-day three-rider co-leadership ride opening at a closing 09:00 CET Tuesday morning on the closing Sertig Pass twin-card recon.

Closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG team-director Mauro Gianetti confirmed in the closing Monday-evening Davos press-window: “The closing single most considered closing-spring pre-Tour reference the closing UAE operation has tabled this decade is the closing combined Pogácar-Almeida-Ayuso three-rider Davos altitude block. Closing combined Engadin twin-week reference closes Monday 1 June; closing combined pre-Critérium du Dauphiné twin-week build closes on the closing Saturday 6 June; closing combined twenty-eight-day pre-Tour build window closes on the closing Friday 3 July Lille rider-presentation block.”

Closing pre-Critérium du Dauphiné 2026 Dauphiné outright ledger now reads Del Toro 5/2 as the closing UAE single-card protected-leadership reference, Evenepoel 9/4 on the closing Soudal Quick-Step single-card brief, Pidcock 9/2 on the closing Netcompany INEOS twin-card co-leadership brief, Lipowitz 7/1 on the closing Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe single-card brief, Jorgenson 5/1 on the closing Visma-Lease a Bike twin-card brief. Closing 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ opens at the closing 12:25 CEST roll-out.

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