It may be a major level in performance technology that was crossed on June 4. Already used in the race by the runners of the Team Visma | Lease a Bike In recent months, the “transformational” respiratory sensors had been suspended by theUCI Pending official validation. This is now the case since Tymewearthe brand at the origin of this innovation, shared with Outside Magazine A note from the UCI transmitted to Dutch training: “Considering that the sensor seems to be available in the trade and that the data it captures do not seem to infringe the integrity of the sport, the UCI has decided to allow the use of the sensor in competition”.
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“It will help us very much to improve our strategies”
These breathing sensors will provide Team Visma | Lease a Bike A new powerful data for training and race. The runners of the Dutch team will now be able to better understand physical pain, contrary to what they were experimenting before with power or heart rate data. Mathieu Heijboerdirector of performance of the Jonas Vingegaard thus informed British magazine on the real advantages allowed by such technology: “Measuring ventilation in the field, with the greatest possible precision to date, will bring us considerable knowledge on how the body manages efforts in competition. These efforts cannot be reproduced either in training, or in the laboratory. This will help us a lot to optimize training and improve our race strategies.”
Although it is still in the learning phase and the data collected is not yet fully exploitable, it is very likely that, for this purpose, we saw Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert or Simon Yates equipped with these sensors during the next Tour de France. If the results prove to be conclusive, there is no doubt that this innovation will quickly become widespread in all the teams of the professional peloton.
