What is this? These are elite riders. Of course their numbers are off the chart. But please do learn how to use 'orders of magnitude' corretly.
When Pogacar did his 2020 performance, people said that Pogacar was special in how he would recover from lactic acid and how that was his unique unusual physical trait that would 'explain' his performance.
Come *** on!
And wasn't it for a long time that people said that VO2Max wasn't as important and useful because several people were dominating with lower VO2max values than others?
Watch this:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dWMdqOkK1Q