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The episode discusses a new concussion sensor trialed at the Tour de France, Spain's surprising victory over France in the World Cup, and the implications of sports science in cycling.

Become a Supporter of the Science of Sport and you'll get the Applied show every week, ad-free listening, and a seat in the best community in sports science, all for the price of a coffee a month (or a gel if you're a cyclist). Here are all the membership benefits , join now! Show notes This week our headline topic is a "concussion sensor" being trialled by some teams at the Tour de France, and why it is a welcome innovation, but one that, for now, invites potentially dangerous false hope. We also take a spin through the rest of the week in sport, covering football, cycling, tennis and track and field. Oh, and hotdogs. (00:00:20) The World Cup nears its finale, and Spain utterly outplayed France to reach the final, making fools of our predictions after Gareth handed France to Ross. We get into why the France-Spain dynamic flipped so completely, the scarcity of penalty shootouts this tournament, the mooted expansion to 64 teams, hydration-break ad money paying for the broadcast rights, the ref cam, and the goal-line technology row over the England-Norway "wire" incident. (00:16:18) Following our David Bailey podcast , we ask whether the peloton is simply scared of Tadej Pogačar…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ross Tucker, Mike Finch

Topics covered

• concussion sensor
• Tour de France
• Spain vs France
• sports science
• marginal gains
• football
• cycling

Keywords

• concussion sensor
• Tour de France
• Spain
• France
• sports science
• marginal gains
• World Cup
• football
• cycling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tour de France, Spain, France, England, Norway

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