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Tour de France: What to know about this year's showcase cycling race
- Currently underway, the Tour de France covers a 3,338-kilometre three-week route from Lille, France to Paris, France while riders consume a pasta-equivalent per hour.
- Advances in nutrition, equipment, and training have doubled carb intake since the low-carb era, with riders now doing weekly gut training to enhance performance.
- AFP reports riders consume up to 120 grams of carbs hourly, a feat Pogacar says was impossible five years ago, equating to about six bananas or 200 grams of pasta.
- This year's Tour de France features unprecedented in-race gorging, with riders consuming up to four times normal food intake, requiring intensive digestion training, as Pogacar and Ferrand-Prevot highlight.
- Beyond the race, nutrition advances and dual carbohydrate transporters are transforming cycling training and performance, decreasing reliance on doping and pushing sport evolution.
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The Toronto StarTour de France: What to know about this year’s showcase cycling race
By JEROME PUGMIRE and SAMUEL PETREQUINAP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — Tadej Pogačar will look to add to his place in cycling history with a fourth Tour de France title. The 26-year-old Slovenian rider last year became the first cyclist to secure the Giro d’Italia and Tour double in the same season since the late Marco Pantani in 1998. His main rival will be Jonas Vingegaard, the Dane who has won the Tour de France and wants to challenge for the v…
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Tour de France: What to know about this year's showcase cycling race
PARIS (AP) — Tadej Pogačar will look to add to his place in cycling history with a fourth Tour de France title. The 26-year-old Slovenian rider last year became the first cyclist to secure the Giro d’Italia and Tour double…
It all started with the idea of a young Géo Lefèvre, editor of the cycling section of the newspaper L’Auto. The newspaper was having trouble with its competition, especially with the newspaper Le Vélo. To boost sales, he wanted to organize a demanding endurance race spanning several days across France, one that would dwarf all previous events of its kind with its gigantic dimensions. However, the editor-in-chief, Henri Desgrange, a former great …
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