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Cycling Weekly, General News, Tour de France 2019 - July 26, 2019

Live and direct - how data could change the Tour

Bike race organisers have always struggled to bring more information to the viewer as filming on the go limits their options. But Japanese data company NTT are about to come in to the sport and change all of that.

Mmmmmwaaagh!” screams Star Wars’s resident walking carpet Chewbacca as he loses a game of holographic monster-chess to droid R2-D2. Watching the 1977 classic, it’s unlikely anyone thought, “but what would the 7ft Wookiee make of a bike race being played out in front of him in the same way?” At the time that seemed impossibly […]

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Cycling Weekly, Tour de France 2019 - July 25, 2019

Riding on thin air - how Tour riders deal with high altitude

With three summit finishes above 2,000 metres in this year’s race, Paul Knott looks at how the peloton have prepared for the heady heights of this year’s Tour

Riding high on the Tourmalet, the Tour de France passes through the fans near the top of the icon climb

The high-altitude aspect of the race is going to be a significant factor,” four-time champion Chris Froome replied when asked his thoughts about the 2019 Tour de France route. Alas the four-time winner never made it to the Grand Départ in Belgium this year, let alone the mountain ranges, due to his crash at the […]

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Cycling Weekly - July 25, 2019