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Belgian Greg van Avermaet’s Olympic Gold Medal winning ride on Strava

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Huge congrats to Belgium’s Greg van Avermaet for the win and Olympic Gold Medal. Above, the Strava overview of his race, and check out the video recap of the finish here on NBC Sports’ official event page here. Speed and Cadence graph below…

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Allan
Allan
7 years ago

Would have loved to see the power numbers…

sad
sad
7 years ago

im fit, bike all week, and cant sustain these stats at 20C for 50km. These people are incredible.

atlbikeshop
7 years ago

where is the power data?

Saturninus (@Saturninus_)

Max cadence 173 ……. WOW !!! Mine is like 150 and I was boping in the saddle all the way.

Mr Ridealong
Mr Ridealong
7 years ago

The important data is missing. Power and heart rate…

ibcyclist
7 years ago

Looks to me like his fav gear is 53 x 15? Fun fact ….

Durianrider
7 years ago

Why no power data? Because the obvious will be clearly stated haha.

Robin
Robin
7 years ago
Reply to  Durianrider

Exactly what is “the obvious”? Do say it, instead of playing at the coy thing.

edge
edge
7 years ago

without power it’s just a course profile….next!!!

wheelz
wheelz
7 years ago

No power data. Lame. Who cares.

Loki
Loki
7 years ago

No power, who cares?
Why don’t we just have them ride indoors on spin bikes with power meters and the best output wins ? Do you even understand racing ? Oh, wait, maybe all you want to do is show how your armchair scientific analysis of his powers proves that blah blah blah.
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jlg
jlg
7 years ago
Reply to  Loki

Loki instead of insulting people, ask yourself why would you remove power and heart rate data.

Loki
Loki
7 years ago
Reply to  Loki

The insult was in direct response to the insulting dismissiveness of some of the posts. The expression ‘don’t complain about being tackled if you play rugby’ comes to mind; if you’re going to be rude and arrogant, don’t complain when someone responds in like. If it affronted you, my apologies, and I concede that it was a reaction to the perceived pubescent belligerence.

FWIW the conspiracy of his power and heart rate data was exactly what I was referring to in my last line – we don’t know, because it was removed. If it was there there’d be 100 theories of how it’s all bogus/he’s doped to the gills etc.

It’s just as likely that the data was removed to give his competitors no info as to hide any PE evidence (and it would be evidence, absolutely conclusive evidence).

Marin
Marin
7 years ago

That’s crazy. I did 180km ride yesterday with 30.5km/h average and 1600m elevation and I can’t say it was easy haha.

BH
BH
7 years ago

I should go pro… my average and max temperatures were MUCH higher! …thanks for nothing.

Westcountycyclist
Westcountycyclist
7 years ago

Is it possible to generate power numbers if we knew how much he weighed and did the math?

XtRD
XtRD
7 years ago

How does the speed rise so much when he’s ascending that small punchy hill around the middle and it doesn’t get that fast when descending the big hill they passed tree times?

Also, 173rpm?, that must be a glitch, a dropped chain or something, was he on a fixed bike or what?!?

John
John
7 years ago
Reply to  XtRD

Because of the corners in the descent of the big hill…

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