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- to be competitive for GC in any grand tour he would have had to dump at least 15lbs. and if he did THAT would he have been competitive in races like Roubaix? would he have been able to sprint? this is the problem of racing in an age of SPECIALISTS.
- Not so long ago the West was outraged at how Chinese (mostly) kids were getting pushed, trained and selected into elite level sports but as this (and American obsession over (young) age best statistics shows, we are all too happy to do the same to have our shot at success. Is it any wonder that so many early performers go through a miserable experience later in life.
PS from having had a very good look at youth athletics world bests for years, I can only confirm that hardly any early achievers nade it through to the very top and very few of the world’s best and biggest winners left a big mark in the youth record books.
- That's not what an expert on eating disorders said, in reference to cyclist's losing weight.
I think it was an interview with Rohan Dennis several years ago.
Eating in an orderly manner is not an eating disorder.
And a cyclist who just won the Tour doesn't have an eating problem as that manifests in heath issues, and you don't win the Tour with health issues.
I am glad she's not planning on keeping that weight long term, though, as there can be health issues from being too light too long.
(I don't even like her, for moral reasons.)
- As has been said, girls are extremely influenced and sensitive about weight and any glorification of weigh loss does a lot of damage. I don’t think many teen boys are that into trying to become skeletal because a few of the middle ranking cyclists are. As pointed out, male rider diets have gone in the opposite direction and all the winning riders look the healthier (and better) for it and seem to be performing better. Maybe Pauline will ride even better with the right 2-3kg back in place.
- Yeah, people who don’t look at this close up just won’t see. What’s more, despite the POINT these pros are making, everyone keeps going back to discussing pros and NOT the people they worry about influencing which is why the whole discussion started in the first place.
- But that industry has done more and has been more successful at showing you don’t have to follow that path for success, all I see here is guys saying if that’s what it takes you have to do it. Not so sure they’d be as quick to encourage their own children to do the same so we already have a philosophical problem.
- Or Jonas Vinegaard...
- No one is more sexist against women than other women. It's almost always other women putting down each other, hidden behind the viel of sexism.
- Horners point wasn't about body weight and losing weight it was about tactics. He started with the pointing out the statement made by Demi right after the race to her teammate about being stupid and too heavy. The entire point Horner is trying to make is power to weight ratio matters regardless of your size and understanding that should drive your tactics. If you have better Power to Weight you can have your team pull you to the last climb and attack. If not, you have to use your team to attack and wear your opponent down. This is exactly what Visma tried to do in the mens race but failed to wear Pogi down. His point is FDJ and other teams tactics sucked.
- It's obviously hard to say, he would do well I'm sure but I think the best climbers today would drop him. He was also a heavier rider even though he was only 5'11", his weight hovered around 160 lbs. I believe Tadej or Jonas would put ten minutes into him on every HC 2,000+ meter mountain stage finish. Maybe with better nutrition he could have dropped 20 lbs in today's environment and been more effective.
