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Can there be two speeds in a clean peloton? Performance strategies in modern road cycling
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Authors: Karsten Øvretveit1
1K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing,
Corresponding Author:
K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway, PB 8905, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
[email protected]
Karsten Øvretveit, MSc3, is a physiologist and PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research areas include genetic disease risk, physical performance, motivational dynamics, and human nutrition.
Can there be two speeds in a clean peloton? Performance strategies in modern road cycling
ABSTRACT
In the history of professional cycling, riders have always sought competitive advantages. Throughout 20th century, many relied on performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) which gave rise to a phenomenon called “two-speed cycling”. Throughout its modern era, professional cycling has seen anti-doping efforts repeatedly intensify on the heels of several large doping scandals. Over the past decade, the sport appears to have transitioned away from large-scale systematic doping and towards novel
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| AN APOLOGY TO VICKY PENDLETON |
In our World Track Championships preview in the March 20 issue of Cycling Weekly, we rated the chance of a British gold medal in every event with a score out of five.
Unfortunately, as sometimes happens in print, a gremlin got busy and two of the stars we'd intended to give Victoria Pendleton in the sprint got wiped off. It was correct on this website. But in the magazine - despite the fact the words talked up her chances - it looked like we'd given her one measly star. We'd intended three (which was still a little on the mean side, admittedly, but we were not under-estimating the threat posed by Natallia Tsylinskaya, who eventually crashed out).
At the pre-championship press conference she was asked how her form was. "Horrific according to Cycling Weekly," she said.
As it turned out, Pendleton breezed through the championships without losing a race. Some of the clashes looked pretty one-sided too as she made her opponents look pedestrian.
After she'd clinched gold, a reporter for a well-known cycling news website, asked: "Does this prove a point to the British magazine that wrote you off?"
While we'd love to flatter ourselves and think that we inadvertently played a part in adding to Miss Pendleto
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