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Any news on Vollering?

Team wout > team visma

Yes indeed. My point was simply to affirm what is rational in the discovering food argument, and put it in context vis-a-vis the oxygen requirements implied by the new normal long climb numbers.

Upping on-stage carb intake will definitely improve performance acutely, ie during the stage, and over a gt, since it contributes to (or pre-empts) recovery. It might also ease the non-stage eating loads in a gt context. One key submax fatigue mechanism is glycogen depletion, so higher carb...

In today's stage thread someone posted a a table charting overall avg speed of 45+kmh for this year. Which is some 2-3kmh faster than any other edition. Was the table real or for the lulz? I know it's been fast but that would be quite a bump.

I might regret asking, but what entertainment? Everyone and their dawg knows for sure that in races he targets poga does whatever he pleases when he chooses to, and that's that. For me unpredictability is one of the defining characteristics of road racing, and now it's all but gone. Even if...

Well, he changed trainers. And also is a generational talent.

And he didn't even run that year. Those were the days.

The late 80s is a long time ago, but numbers-wise we have some info as to what GC racing did look like before serious oxygen vector doping. Lemond had a vo2max in the low nineties (and let the world know about it, too), but couldn't break 6w/kg on long climbs. He trained in a fairly modern way...

Also the Sky era was more constrained in terms of how much you could boost the engine. Hence the (unhealthy) focus on making the chassis as light as possible. GC top riders now even have some muscle, because on can again work the watt side of the equation. Then they were total stick figures just...

Numbers schnumbers but isn't it all very exciting? Maybe 2024 was finally the tour of redemption, 25 years late, but anyway. Which means this is year 2000 and great times are ahead.

TikTok made me do it

Visma control van had a busy night parsing the evenepoel thread. By 1pm today they had enough intel on evenepoel's weaknesses, and their AI analysis suggested going for it in the suolor.

Is this rabofail yet?

Yes, the famous incident that had nothing to do with cumulative fatigue induced by visma tactics getting the better of Pog. Wva just dropped him up a mountain because why not. But today it's a different wva, Pog and Vinge.