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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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).
