Performance development with wheel races

Tour de France, Giro, Vuelta, and classic European races show a unique progression of road cycling speed in the last 20 years. A French group has studied the development of the performance of cycling icons and large cycling tours in the last 116 years. It showed various development periods over time, with a fourth period after 1993, a performance improvement of 6.38% compared to the third period. The possible reasons for this performance jump are discussed under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20473822/

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Relationship of skin fold thickness & competition time at mountain bikers

No Correlation of Skin-Fold Thickness with Race Performance in Male Recreational Mountain Bike Ultra-Marathoners For elitic runners from 100 m to the marathon, depending on the route and the sex, there is a connection between certain skin fold thicknesses and the competition time. We examined in mountain bikers on the, Swiss Bike Masters’ whether there is a connection between skin cold thickness and final time.We found no correlation between skin cold thickness and closing time, while training volume and speed correlated in training with the competition time, to be found under https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/no-correlation-of-skin-fold-thickness-with-race-in-ultra-marathoners/889cc4a821121f9a63017a11db3461d003b45d4e

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What does the performance affect long-distance swimming?

What Influences Race Performance in Male Open-Water Ultra-Endurance Swimmers: Anthropometry or Training? We have examined in male long-distance swimming at ‘Zürichsee swim’ if we find a connection between training and physique with the closing time. Surprisingly, variables of body construction such as muscle mass or body fat had no connection with the floating time, but the average speed in swimming in training, read below https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/epprint/34491/

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