EGAN’S FIRST COACH
PABLO MAZUERA
A well-known Colombian song announces, ‘The roads of life aren’t as I imagined them.’ Pablo Mazuera should know: he took a few of them before discovering his vocation, in his late 20s, for producing world-class cyclists. It turns out that where Egan Bernal came from and where the next Egan Bernal might come from may not be unrelated – not if the six cyclists doing their stretching in front of us, on a hillside near Paipa, 180km northeast of the Colombian capital, Bogotá, have anything to do with it. Bernal’s first sponsor is hard at work nurturing the next generation of South American talent.
The main thing Pablo Mazuera learned from his first chosen path - taking a business administration degree, an experience he describes as “torture” - was that there had to be a more enjoyable way to earn a living. “I’d been a DJ as a kid, so I took myself off to Florida’s Full Sail University for a year and became a sound engineer. I got a job at Telemundo in Miami, then came back to Colombia and started a company called Mezuena Producciones, and started producing audio for advertising and for films.”
In 2010,
