Cycling Plus

HOW DO I GO FASTER?

When the Olympic kit was dropped off with Team GB at the pre-Games camp – usually in Newport – and we headed to the velodrome, the times were always fast.

Is that because the kit was fast, or because the riders believed the kit would be fast? In mine and some others’ opinions, the placebo effect must have played some part.

Undeniably, some of the

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