There were potatoes eaten with the skin on, steak for breakfast, mountains of pasta, fruit-only diets, long rides with almost nothing in the stomach, the obsessive quest to shed every extra kilo… […] Read more →
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Tour de France: when the gut becomes the weak link
During a Tour de France stage, the legs are not the only ones to suffer. While muscles constantly demand more blood, the skin tries to dissipate heat, and the brain […] Read more →
Nina Voit, the woman who listens to the body before the numbers
For three weeks, Tour de France riders subject their bodies to a series of physical demands that few human beings would be able to endure. They eat to generate watts, […] Read more →
What if modern cycling was simply… faster?
Tadej Pogačar’s demonstration at Strade Bianche and the astonishing performance of young Paul Seixas bring a crucial question back into focus. What if the models used for twenty years to judge cycling […] Read more →