Has it been shown to do so in an athlete population other than the original "Young male students majoring in physical education..?" (the most famous 1996 study) Or " Fifty-five untrained college-aged subjects?" (2015 study by Foster, et al.)

My PubMed skillz may be lacking, but I couldn't locate a study of Tabata intervals performed on highly trained subjects. Particularly those not foreign to other forms of high intensity training stress.