Fuel to the fire: How hyper-tailored nutrition entered the peloton

“Of all the riders on the team, when it comes to nutrition, I’d say he’s the most straightforward,” Gorka Prieto-Bellver, nutritionist at UAE Team Emirates, was reported as saying earlier this season. “There are some who are way fussier, the ones who insist on having white pasta all the time and you just can’t convince them otherwise. But Tadej is the complete opposite. You’ll tell him, ‘You’ve got to eat this’ and he’ll eat it.” With 84 professional victories to his name, there’s little to complain about, except perhaps the Col du Granon stage at the 2022 Tour de France where he famously ran out of energy. That was two years ago. This season there’s been little sign of Pogačar hitting the wall, helped by an increasingly meticulous on-bike feeding…

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