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Discgear said:
Armchaircyclist said:
Did any of you hear Sundby's claims about his lung capacity ? He claims that he has only 80% of an average untrained males ability to take up oxygen through the lungs.....
http://www.vg.no/sport/langrenn/martin-johnsrud-sundby/sundby-om-astma-problemene-markant-handikap/a/23600686/
And that's when he has not got asthma-problems...
After winning the tour in Canade and once again smashing all the competition, MJS complained to Aftonbladet that he had been so ill during the tour that he was close to being hospitalized, with very severe asthma.
Could you believe it? The Norwegian arrogance is through the roof.
i knew of the sundby alleged lung capacity for a long time... addressed it in a racing thread some days back:
viewtopic.php?p=1876766#p1876766
....and lastly, b/c my nrk feed was sputtering today, i was occasionally switching to eurosport. what a horrible commentary the english-speaking audience had been exposed to ! the lady assistant certainly knew her stuff, but the man had been peppering his audience with a lot false or incorrect info... like 'what a remarkable lung capacity sundby possess'. this is just nonsense if one bothered to read the norwegian media in which mjs claimed to have a natural lung capacity equal 80% of a non athletic male his age
while quite arrogant of him to talk so much, it may be true for what we know.
i posted earlier why his mannerism and imperious attitude reminded me of the armstrong's arrogance. no wonder martin worshiped the super jerk.
not all norwegian elite xc-ers come across arrogant. i get good vibes for instance about iversen, roethe, jespersen....the irritating part seems the lack of reflection in some like sundby. he talks and behaves like the old-fashioned sportsmanship is optional.
here's another examples. after the canadian tour, ustiogov told an interviewer that before one race, ustiugov found martin's ski poles in his box. startled somewhat, he decided to transfer them to the still empty petter's box. then he walk away meeting martin along the way. he said martin had a smirky smile...ustiugov decided to observe what will happen next. he saw petter walking to his box and getting a wtf reaction seeing someone's poles. sundby walked up to petter, they talked about something, smiled and sundby retired with his poles..
regarding the lung capacity vs the vo2 max. these are 2 completely different things. a lung capacity is measured by a spirometer - a very simple device one blows into as hard and as long as possible while NOT performing any physical activity. the forced out air is metered in liters and considered the volume vacated by one's lungs. for instance, during my competitive years, i was regularly blowing 170-180% the average capacity of the healthy males my age. btw, there are world class endurance athletes with
one lung. this is possible b/c human lungs, like our kidneys are of redundant (that is 100% x2) design. o
the vo2 max. otoh, is also measured in liters, but liter/min (absolute Vo2) or liters/min/kg (normalized to weight). it is measured by a gas analyzer calibrated for oxygen and CO2. VO2 max is the amount of oxygen (not air) that one's body can utilize (exchanged in the lungs, carried by the red blood cells and extracted by working muscles to produce aerobic energy) during a maximum exertion.
i simplified it, but hope it helped.
However, we are talking about a media trained person. Not only skier but also a representative of his sport, his country, different brands, and lastly businessmen himself. Also very well initiated in the risks, gains and taboos around doping, not at least how delicate the subject is in the communication with media and how it lands among the public and business partners.
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