Kasia Niewiadoma's Mont Ventoux Masterclass / The Physiology of Losing a Yellow Jersey / A Doping Ban That Fits a Familiar Pattern
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The episode discusses the physiology behind a remarkable women's Grand Tour performance and examines a familiar doping ban pattern in cycling.
Become a Supporter of The Science of Sport for about the price of a coffee, or a gel, and help us keep the lights on, and Gareth's candle burning! Plus, you'll get ad free listening, a weekly Applied show, and a community that argues better than the internet does! Show notes On the show today, the physiology behind the best women's Grand Tour we can remember, and a doping ban that fits a pattern we have seen many times before. (00:01:00) The Tour de France Femmes was, we think, the best Grand Tour either of us has watched in years, and we explore the nine stages of unpredictable racing that had us intrigued, even if the record will show that Demi Vollering won four of them. (00:05:56) Kasia Niewiadoma's ride on Mont Ventoux, at somewhere between 5.3 and 5.6 W/kg for the climb, is arguably the greatest climbing performance in the history of women's cycling , and we place it against the published power duration curves to show just how far outside the 90th percentile it sits. (00:17:19) Niewiadoma also posted 9.9 W/kg for 86 seconds, and from that single Strava screenshot we work out her FTP and her W', the anaerobic "battery", which lets us answer the question everyone argued…
People in this episode
Hosts: Professor Ross Tucker, Mike Finch
Topics covered
- women's cycling
- Tour de France Femmes
- physiology of cycling
- doping bans
- climbing performance
- power duration curves
Keywords
- Kasia Niewiadoma
- Demi Vollering
- Mont Ventoux
- cycling performance
- doping
- power output
- FTP
- W/kg
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Organizations: Strava
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