The Sky Contador method, the key to stop Pogacar?

This is believed by a former member of the British team. The Sky Contador method, the key to stop Pogacar?

Maybe many do not remember him, or do not even do it with love for their relationship with doping. But Bobby Julich was a great runner and his traps have nothing to do with the knowledge he may have about sport.

Once a podium in the Tour de France, then he was sports director at Team Sky. And it is precisely his passage there of what he spoke now in Vélo, remembering how a plan was designed to stop Alberto Contador and his brutal accelerations.

“Professional doctor is full of talented corridors supported by experts, it will surely be full of coaches and scientists analyzing each Pogacar movement to find the best tactic to stop it,” said the American.

“when I was in Sky we had to do that with one of the most explosive climbers of his generation, Alberto Contador,” he continued. “It was not easy, when he decided to attack almost no one could stop him,” he continued.

“Accountant could accelerate in a way that almost no one could follow him without bursting physically and mentally.

“Tim Kerrison, Sky chief coach, analyzed the data and devised a plan. He did it watching videos on TV, even without having the accountant numbers, he could calculate them using information that was known publicly,” he explained.

“The solution was to let accountant left, that no one lost morals and then rolling in watts that Froome could endure as they brought him back. Froome practically did not lose again against Alberto and that was the beginning of the era of the Sky potentiometer,” he completed.

A decade later

In that same way Skjelmose won in Amstel, the first date in which the Slovenian showed vestiges of being “human.” And while that tactic was not possible for an end as an arrow, the doubt has been installed on whether it could be repeated.

Even so, Julich believes that Tadej’s unpredictability can be the key to fail to neutralize it. “I think they will soon run a more unpredictable way, once the classics end,” he said.

“And the problem is that if he decides to measure his efforts and wait to define closer to the goal, it will be even more dangerous than when he attacked from afar,” the Texan released.

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