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01 Horses for courses

ill your Little Geraint become a professional cyclist when they grow up? Are they looking to win the Tour de France? Or perhaps looking to be an über domestique, protecting the leader from the wind and reeling in any breakaway? If so, it’s good to work back from the physical identikit required to race at WorldTour level. Which is where recent research featured in the comes in. A team of Spanish researchers analysed the anthropomorphic characteristics of 76

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