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MicH skrev:
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> I remember one occasion when a female Irish rower
> qualified for the TT in the olympics (admittedly
> she'd been a triathlete before "wasting" 10 years
> on rowing). Now she didn't do very well, but how
> many of us would qualify? It would have to be
> worth at least top 20 in CV...
Then again, rowers tend to have very high VO2max and absolute power figures, if not W/kg, so you'd expect top rowers to hold their own in a TT if they have any cycling experience at all. In general, I think that you could "transplant" any successful athlete from any sport into cycling, as long as the power/duration profile was sufficiently similar. That's likely why Sanna Kallur performed comparatively well in a single-lap velodrome sprint - it wasn't all that different from a running sprint in terms of power and duration.
I only ride road, so I don't know much at all about riding offroad, but I'd bet that a lot more than purely W/kg matters. If you replaced the cranks with electric motors on two identical bikes, and put yourself on one and last year's CV winner on the other, would you cross the finish line riding abreast? I don't think so...
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> I remember one occasion when a female Irish rower
> qualified for the TT in the olympics (admittedly
> she'd been a triathlete before "wasting" 10 years
> on rowing). Now she didn't do very well, but how
> many of us would qualify? It would have to be
> worth at least top 20 in CV...
Then again, rowers tend to have very high VO2max and absolute power figures, if not W/kg, so you'd expect top rowers to hold their own in a TT if they have any cycling experience at all. In general, I think that you could "transplant" any successful athlete from any sport into cycling, as long as the power/duration profile was sufficiently similar. That's likely why Sanna Kallur performed comparatively well in a single-lap velodrome sprint - it wasn't all that different from a running sprint in terms of power and duration.
I only ride road, so I don't know much at all about riding offroad, but I'd bet that a lot more than purely W/kg matters. If you replaced the cranks with electric motors on two identical bikes, and put yourself on one and last year's CV winner on the other, would you cross the finish line riding abreast? I don't think so...

