2010年7月27日 · A couple of years before Miguel Indurain won the tour de france he had been sick. When he recovered he trained smarter than anyone else in the history of the sport - noone else up until then had any idea. He recruited a team that would ride for him until they dropped (dead if necessary). They were paid 50 million dollars each for their efforts.

2012年9月24日 · In May 1994, Indurain tested positive for salbutamol following the Tour de L'Oise in France. Though the β2-adrenergic agonist, found in nasal inhalers, was on the banned substance list of both the IOC and UCI, both organization's permitted sportsmen with asthma to …

2011年8月5日 · 2. Contador is 28 years old, Indurain and Armstrong won their first Tour at age 27 3. Contador won all 3 GTs, a feat never achieved by either Indurain or Armstrong 4. Indurain never won his Giros with great time differences 5. Indurain didn't …

2013年3月30日 · I find the action against Armstrong extreme in comparison with the other superstars of cycling. There were strong suspicions of all three of them - Phenomenal timetrialists and very good climbers. Existing in the EPO, blood doping era. Associated with dodgy doctors. Armstrong was brought down...

2012年1月8日 · The average young untrained male will have a VO2 max of approximately 3.5 litres/minute and 45 ml/kg/min. Five time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain is reported to have had a VO2 max of 88.0 at his peak, while cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie measured at 96 ml/kg/min. Dæhlie's result was achieved out of season, and physiologist Erlend Hem who was …

2024年8月18日 · The race that brought us Joop Zoetemelk, Greg Lemond, Miguel Indurain, Laurent Fignon, Nairo Quintana, Egan Bernal, Tadel Pogacar and many more: Seems a shame not to have a thread for it Only one French club team (I seem to remember rather more, and presumably fewer national teams because...

2021年8月8日 · Indurain could keep up and usually even drop the best climbers up to the 1996 Dauphine. He was defeated at the 1996 TdF and withdrew from the Vuelta, after which he retired. The 1995 TdF was the one he dominated the most in the mountains.

2024年6月22日 · Miguel Indurain 1992 - 20 days Miguel Indurain 1993 - 20 days Marco Pantani 1998 - 34 days???Tadej Pogačar 2024 - 34 days??? If history teaches as anything is that when there is more than 3 weeks inbetween Giro and TDF is very hard to win the double.

2020年6月6日 · Miguel Indurain was at least 15 or so pounds heavier than Bjarne Riis. And given the fact that they are approximately the same height, Indurain would have to have put up way more watts just to keep up with him, let alone overtake him and win the '95 Tour , …

2024年4月30日 · Miguel's resting heart rate was 28 BPM, basically unheard of, perhaps the fittest athlete in history in his prime. He doped but wasn't an arsehole about it, you don't see federal authorities calling grand juries trying to jack up Miguel Indurain.