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The thing I can't make sense of is that we're seeing enormous increases in power output in the last five years, but we're not seeing corresponing paradigm shifts in other endurance sports. Looking at the world records and fastest times in the 5000m, 10,000m and marathon, as well as the longer...

It's not just the event that takes a physical toll though. Their training regimes are basically fine-tuned to get the athlete to an extreme physical peak that's totally unsustainable over time and requires a long period of recovery before peaking again. What makes Pogacar more suspicious is that...

Rozman sounds like he's just another member of the decades-old cast of no-name middlemen who are well below or even disconnected completely from the team's roster and leadership. Someone who flies totally under the radar or who has just enough of an excuse to always be around, but in a role...

Yeah, it might be hypocritical of someone who wants a totally clean sport to turn a blind eye to everyone spreading a bit of extra butter on their toast, but at the moment it seems like half the peloton is scraping on just enough butter that they feel they can safely get away with saying it's...

And ironically that was when the sport was seen as being at its absolute dirtiest in the eyes of the general public. The only thing functional testing taught us in the end is that over time, anti-doping is basically an unwinnable game, because you either 1) Convince the general public of the...

"Can I get a G and an S, Pat?"

I think Ricco takes this one for how shamelessly and compulsively he doped. Dopes, gets banned, comes back, almost kills himself with a bad bag less than a year later, gets banned again, effectively for the rest of his career, gets caught buying dope again two years into his ban. That man is a...

There's obviously a lot of people in here who don't have ADHD and haven't got the faintest clue what methylphenidate actually does for people with it. I take it daily and it absolutely doesn't improve my performance at all. The only thing I've ever noticed it do is sometimes making me feel worse...

Not sure what the fuss is about. That was another expectedly amazing ride from the biggest talent since Eddy Merckx.

There's a chance Dawg finishes ahead of Wiggins in 2012 if current Pog or Vingegaard are in the race. After all, Froome was doing all those weird little accelerations on the climbs to show the world he was the stronger climber. If Pog or JV ride off on their own, he probably follows and leaves...

Sort of on the fence about whether Wout Poels' 2016 LBL win and season in general qualifies. He was a big talent when he came onto the scene with Vacansoleil (and being a member of that team is a giant, bright red flag in its own right), but suffered a horrific injury after crashing in the 2012...

Because there's no need to overcome gravitational force and it's an event where riders maintain a constant speed except when cornering? Here's a nice calculator to show the relationship between watts and speed All other things equal, here's how much of a factor weight is: 60kg (ie. Remco) "If...

Weight famously important on a dead flat parcours.

The talent is undeniable considering he's a contender in every aspect of road racing (and such a world beater at CX and MTB that he's pretty much completed both sports already at 24) so it would be extremely interesting to see what he could do if he picked one type of race to specialise in...