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1 September 2026
Chip-timing data from 6,589 finishers of the Quebrantahuesos says the fastest riders open the first climb more conservatively but the riders with the flattest profiles of all finished slowest. Dr Fran Oficial-Casado of the Universitat de Valencia on what the largest pacing dataset in cycling can and cannot tell you.
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