I understand a new coach and training methods will help a rider improve by a few percent. But come on, you can have the best coach in the world but being on form full gas from February to October just isn't human, Im sorry. He doesn't show any signs of building form or fatigue, it just isn't normal and has never been seen before.
You can look to Ayuso, another rider coached by San Milan.
There isn't a 10 years rule? Like Riis didn't lost his TdF because he admitted he was doping more than 10 years later.
They managed to go past that for Armstrong, but I don't recall why exactly.
Any gains made by changing training methods will be very very marginal at that top elite level of the sport. He was already arguably the top rider in the world but since early 2024 he has gone to another stratosphere. None of that can be explained by training methods which is only a useful cover story for the rider to explain the turbo boost.
That's doping but Pogacar since 2021 has been good all season. In 2023, if he didn't crash, I'm pretty sure he would be a lot better but he still dominate the field in the spring, went toe and toe with Vingegaard in the Tour and even if he was exhausted, he won GdL.
Maybe because most TdF wins were not 10 years earlier than 2011 (or 2012. Time flies, I don't even know).
I don't believe in the "genius" of San Millan, i'm talking about the narrative that was pushed at the time, it was all over youtube/the press.
Please don't lie. You can disagree with me but don't disturb facts.
A lot of people dope and learn to dope better. That's not a refutation of UAE also learning to dope better.
Ayuso and Yates that's fair enough, but there are other reasons why those two kinda stagnated, everyone else is killing it. Are you going to argue that Politt and Del toro aren't ridiculous? Mc Nulty? Vine? Uae is even more blatant that Visma was in 2022 nowadays, and yes they are farming races, but so does every team that rakes up a great tally of wins during a season, the fact that they are farming wins in small races without a proper sprinter is another ludicrous thing they are doing.
I gave you 2 examples of probably 10 riders but I could give more.
His biggest rival in the Giro was Red Bull's sixth strongest GC rider. What the hell are you talking about, dude?
Vine has three times the number of PCS point in 2025 he had in the past seasons, Mc Nulty has more than doubled his tally from the past since 2024. UAE as a whole had their best season by far in 2024 (coming from what was already their best season ever in 2023) and they are going to do even better in 2025.
You raise some good points, you I just won't agree with that statement. Yes, he was good all season in 2021-23, but he showed signs of being human, and actually showed he was suffering. He was winning races but wasn't destroying the oposition in every single race.
Indeed, the snake that devours itself, a symbol of time's inexorability to consume temporality, and the alchemical opus circulatorium of the Great Work; a rotation of the four elements, a conjunction of opposites, earth to air, water to fire, by which transmutation into gold occurs. I dare say the magus, Gianetti, has been up to something for a while and Taddei his "prima materia."
You can challenge whatever you want. Pre-UAE Pogacar was above average at best. Just compare his results to Primozic who is 3 months younger.
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Remco's biggest rival, in juniors, retired...You can challenge whatever you want. Pre-UAE Pogacar was above average at best. Just compare his results to Primozic who is 3 months younger.
Tadej Pogačar versus Jaka Primožič | Same race results
Comparison of results between Tadej PogaÄar and Jaka PrimožiÄ in races where they both started.
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