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[Opinion] Winning the Tour De France with Data

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Matt Seaton, for the Atlantic, reports on how the statistical approach impacted cycling and led to Tour de France winning. The riders now train with the data, they race with the data, they publish their data on Strava and similar training apps, they probably dream about their data. So we know that during a crucial mountain stage in last year’s Tour de France—won convincingly by Pogačar on his way to overall victory—he produced approximately 7 wa…

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Tadej Pogacar, first ultra-dominant on the first part of the Tour de France and especially in the Pyrenees, sometimes seemed disinterested in the stage victory at the end of the 3 weeks. Wearyness or fatigue...

The Australian rider reveals that the Slovenian has voluntarily chosen to keep public opinion and his team-mates alive. Tadej Pogacar won four stages in the last Tour de France, an impressive record but below his previous performances. The previous year, the Slovenian rider had won six stage wins before winning his third jersey [...] The article Pogacar could have dominated the Tour de France further according to Storer appeared first on Le Sing…

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ladepeche.fr broke the news in on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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