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    CLIMB LIKE A STAGE WINNER

    Aug 05, 2021 4 minutes
    Words Chris Matshall-Bell
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    Getty Images & Russ Ellis

    Summer is in full swing: we’ve enjoyed a brilliant Tour de France and the Vuelta is just around the corner. If you’re anything like me, these Grand Tours always leave you wishing, if only I could climb as well as the pro mountain goats! OK, so we can’t really hope to match the powerful rhythm set by the world’s finest, but we certainly can learn from them. That’s why we’ve asked a selection of climbing specialists for their advice on how every rider can climb faster – without losing weight.

    Being chivvied to shed kilos to climb faster is just too obvious, and too often leads to counter-productive crash diets, so we’re not going there. Amateur riders cannot reasonably be expected to reach

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