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06-20-2012, 12:59 PM
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The figure I've heard for Track events like pursuit or team pursuit is 18,000 calories during a full day of competition.
There's a movie of the Race Across America- west coast to east with as many or as few breaks as you want- where the two competitiors were fairly close Pete Penseyres had a special diet of tofu and sprouts, John Howard was having the support crew drive ahead to truck stops for twinkies and big macs.  Howard won. When he was asked later about the horrible diet he said you couldn't make the ride without being in great shape, and what was needed was Big quick calories.The other one I was impressed by was Francesco Moser doing some early physiological testing. Maxed out every test the docs had and wasn't really working hard. On tests that had driven soccer players and runners to near collapse(over an hour on the three steps thing with only a modest increase in heart rate.). He came back with a bike and ran over an hour with a pulse around 180-185 and a max close to 200. Recovery time was getting back to 140 between the bike and chair, back to his resting of 35bpm in under 10 minutes. He was insanely fit,a bit of a physical oddity and probably doping. Hard to tell which had the most effect. Other top cyclists have an abnormal lung volume and the stuff used at the time helped the blood absorb oxygen. Steve B 
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06-21-2012, 06:43 AM
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would be surprised if ANY of the cyclists AREN'T cheating in some form.........PED.......Blood transfusions.....something. Just hard to believe results.............
in MOST sports anymore. The money is just too strong for the high performers to believe any results anymore.....
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06-21-2012, 06:00 PM
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The money isn't that big in cycling.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121693264451182277.html 4 million for the best paid guy, and lots of good riders under a million. And some of the guys that basically are there to lug waterbottles around and give up their bike if the main guy needs one quick make as little as 45,000. I know a guy that collects race worn jerseys and buys them from the riders paying before the race and collecting after. He gets big names for $500-1000. Like the guys making over a million. When he was asked how much it would cost to get one of the domestiques jerseys he said "most of those guys might just strip naked on the spot for fifty bucks"  And the stuff he was buying in europe was incredible. They've caught on now and the prices are more realistic, but still cheap compared to baseball stuff. He got the flag that was on the back of the car to start the tour every year from something like 1910 till WWII for about 12 thousand. Much less for world championship trophies and stuff like that. Steve B
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06-23-2012, 08:31 AM
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As a five year + cancer survivor myself it is sad for me to see someone who is so upfront in the fight against cancer get caught up in a scandal like this.
His organization has done so much good and now it seems his personal scandals will probably affect his organizations work. SAD.
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06-23-2012, 10:22 PM
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Very sad if it does affect his organization, like him or not he's done a ton of good things. Steve B
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