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Pogacar has extensively talked about how his improvement came in the last few years over the assimilation of better and more consistent training and eating habits, whilst his change of coaches to Sola has also played a meaningful role.<\/p>\n
Pogacar can in theory still improve<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he still has indications that he could improve a little bit. I think the margin for improvement gets smaller and smaller each year, but we also thought that before,” Jeroen Swart says. He is in charge of performance as a whole at UAE, and keeps up with Pogacar’s improvement as closely as with other figures.<\/p>\n
“Two years ago, we had no idea how much he could improve, and he has improved dramatically, but I think the changes now will be much smaller. It\u2019s more about being able to sustain that level.\u201d At his current level, Pogacar is able to win almost everything he sets himself in pro cycling, and so UAE does not necessarily need it to improve at the time being, but find ways to maintain it for a few more years.<\/p>\n
With Milano-Sanremo, Paris-Roubaix, Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and the Olympic Games, the Slovenian viably has goals left to achieve for the coming years, whilst records such as the Tour de France GC wins and even the total amount of monuments are also within reach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we do anything extraordinary, all of what we do is already in the literature, the science has been published. But I think what we do really well is that we do the basics exceptionally well, and I think most of your performance is in that,” Swart adds.<\/p>\n