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IMHO nationality was less important an issue in the sky thing than was and continues to be asserted. If a dutch, french or belgian team came on and literally said they reinvented the wheel in terms of prep, got jiffy bags and salbutamol puffers pinned on them, and won the tour several times...

Thanks! My admittedly limited understanding is that what you described relates to diffusion of oxygen into the muscle. It is indeed a real variable and improving it can enhance performance to an extent. I alluded to this upthread, but emphasized mitochondrial volume. However, generally speaking...

Not to be argumentative, quite the opposite really, and just curious: how would the intracellular thing work? Conventional wisdom is that basically endurance performance is a function of one's capacity to produce a lot of ATP for a long time via the aerobic pathways from fat and glycogen. That...

One with less wins overall and from less diverse races than he has now. It is the age of specialization and professionalism after all. Love it when discussants toss never measured 100+ml/kg/min vo2maxes derived from mid-tour performances like it ain't no thang.

Oh, it's that time of the year again. Relative performance differentials between riders are the essence of racing. However, it is the absolute performance levels that top riders have exhibited in the post covid (hahaha-) era that require an explanation. One strategy is to take a performance...

Which is reasonable because Sola, short cranks and all of them generational talents (identified post festum, ofc, but better late than never)

Yes, if the goal is to up one's level substantially, sooner or later you will need more oxygen delivered to the working muscles. Keeping oxygen delivery constant*, more mitochondria simply means higher fractional utilization. That is, slightly higher sustained outputs for similar durations or...

https://www.deutscherskiverband.de/w/clenbuterol-nachweis-bei-langl%C3%A4uferin-victoria-carl-nach-%C3%A4rztlicher-verordnung-durch-bundeswehrarzt-dsv-fordert-differenzierte-bewertung?redirect=%2F Official statement here E: If I get it correctly, Carl was prescribed one cough syrup product...

What about Hume and Ricardo? They were the worst, after all.

Superior mitochondria and zone 2 explains it all. He is just that good. The original explanation vindicated.

Yea. And what would the time gaps have been in the sky era in this sort of a climb? A wee bit less me remembers.

Vo2max does not translate into "a" unique power output level. It's a measure of how much oxygen can be consumed at most, not an output. It, or something very similar (in which case the apt term is vo2peak), can be triggered by a range of power/duration combinations as long as you exceed "the"...

Mentioning femke is apt. Every race has now turned into a parakeets heist (they were of the sino afrodisiac variety, as far as I can remember blackcat's memeing here).

Once upon a time long range attacks were rare, against all odds, and therefore cherished. Now it's the meh of the meh: oh great, what a rider, history in the makings, my words, goat, etc. Yeah, I'd take the sky era, or boonen/cancellara era, without blinking.

June: fans panic over one TT July: pogo cruises to tdf victory with a 9min margin and 1 w/kg cushion of safety