Tour de France: Cycling's Greatest Individual Time Trial Explained
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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The Importance of Power Shifts
There's a limit to how much power your muscles can produce. The moment we hit an up-do-es or a joupe-plan, cold or tormelé, those big guys are going off the back. Even in the stood of fronts, Matio Fauna Poole is a comparatively big guy. And so Perry Rubé, which is a flat race, absolute power is winning that race. So most of the road starts to go up. The power to weight starts to count for more.
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