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\u201cLast year I was invited to the training camp and it was already a dream. I want to make the most of this opportunity, carve out a place for myself and learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Learning the speed of the modern peloton<\/p>\n
For both brothers, the biggest adjustment is not ambition but pace. Pablo has seen first hand how rapidly the ceiling keeps rising at the top level. \u201cThis year I improved almost all my numbers in short efforts, also up to 20 minutes and even one hour. I also gained a bit of weight, which is power, but I still have room to progress. Last year, in the Tour de l\u2019Avenir stage I won, I did it by more than a minute over second place. This year, with those numbers, even slightly better, almost 10 riders could hold on in the group. Every year it gets faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jaime is clear about where his own learning curve lies. \u201cI know I can do well and that probably my biggest weakness is handling myself in the peloton, and that\u2019s something we\u2019re going to work on hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prospect of overlapping race days remains a long term motivation rather than an immediate goal. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting for him to be with us in the best team in the world and, even though it\u2019s another category, hopefully we can share some races,\u201d Pablo said, noting that development riders can step up when the race is not World Tour.<\/p>\n
A family pathway through UAE<\/p>\n
The Torres story extends beyond two riders. Their sister Celia is also set to join the UAE development system, completing a rare family pathway within the same organisation. \u201cMaking the step up to the UAE development team is a source of pride because it\u2019s one of the best in the world, and when I started competing in cycling I would even have paid to achieve it. I had one goal in mind, which was to try to step up to a professional team, and doing it with UAE is an honour,\u201d she told AS.<\/p>\n
What links all three is not hype but continuity. They live together, train together when schedules allow, and approach progress as something to be earned season by season. Jaime summed up the inspiration closest to home. \u201cI\u2019d love to have a career like his.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, the next step is simple. Keep learning, keep improving, and let time do the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cLast year I was invited to the training camp and it was already a dream. I want…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,190248,85,6494,19805],"class_list":{"0":"post-343491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-pablo-torres","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tadej-pogacar","14":"tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}