Dig out your Sola: The impact of Pogačar’s new coach Javier Sola

Iñigo San Millán, Pogačar’s trainer for over five years, has been crucial to his success. But change was afoot for 2024. San Millán took up the position of director of performance at football club Athletic Bilbao last October (he still retains consultancy status at the UAE team though) while Spanish coach Javier Sola took on Pogačar. The 38-year-old began working with UAE in 2023 and his palmares features numerous Olympic, European Championship and Paralympic medals. He specialises in human performance and biomechanics. Pogačar sounds positive about the change. “Inigo and I had a good relationship, his training was super good for me. But maybe sometimes you need a change of pace, different stuff, different styles of training,” Pogačar said in a press conference after winning the Giro d’Italia by nearly…

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