Tour de France: Too Fast to Be Clean?(statista.com)

6 pointsby SQL2219vor 4 Jahren2 comments

https://www.statista.com/chart/22981/average-speed-of-tour-de-france-winners-by-decade/

2 comments

k82avor 4 Jahren

So just because average speed is marginally (!) higher than it was 20 years ago it's "too fast to be clean"? Great "data journalism" there. If anything, it looks pretty stable since the 2000s.

What about improvements in technology, what about different routes and distance each year, improvements in training, number of time trial or mountain stages, maybe there is more riding as a peloton in recent tours, resulting in higher averages?

perrygeovor 4 Jahren

The tour started in Denmark for 3 stages this year and has been relatively flat. Not to mention blessed with tailwinds. Looking at the average speed without considering the conditions is a pointless analysis, but to cry doping as a result?! This is garbage "journalism".