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Tour de France: Cycling's Greatest Individual Time Trial Explained

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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The Importance of Precision in Cycling

In cycling, we have nothing like it. The only thing we've got to judge these incredible performances is the gaps between people on the day. There's no there's no longitudinal context. So Pagacha, when he won that two to France on that last time trial, maybe there he was at 6.2 watts a kilo for the last 30 minutes,. Maybe yesterday was at 6:1. Okay, he's not as good as he was. Then we can start to understand it. But everyone, Dumaland, I listened to a podcast yesterday saying, oh, people are getting hung up on the watts per kilogram. Nobody knows what they actually did. And so in

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