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Tour de France Wrap: The Moments That Decided The Winner

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The Power of Venergo's Climb

Venergo was quoted as saying that he was looking at the numbers on his meter and they were, he thought that the meter was wrong. Yet he didn't slow down, which is interesting because normally he must be thinking goodness me, this looks suspicious. So I like a good hypothesis. We don't call it theory here. We call it an hypothesis. And so in the end, it's interesting and I say that the suggestion is that the power had to have been 390 watts or so on the flat and downhill bits and 430 on the uphill. That equates for Venergo to 6.5 and then up to about 7.37.4 for the steep part of the

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