- Virtual cycling Upload the Tourmalet from the living room
Curious things about confinement and caged professional cyclists, wasting watts between four walls. No less than Thomas de Gendt, the peculiar and dapper Lotto-Soudal racer, ended up expelled when he was riding on a virtual platform. His 'sin', going suspiciously too strong.
It happened last Tuesday, when the Belgian was training on his roller with the famous Zwift simulator, the most used by professionals. Rolling on the virtual island of Watopia, trying to keep his shape until everything goes back to normal, Thomas received a funny warning on his screen: "Either you missed your call to be professional or something is wrong with one of your devices."
Suspicions were unleashed by De Gendt when he started to raise the watts considerably, staying above 550 for a long time . Something really complicated for a 'mortal'. The Belgian did not hesitate to turn to Twitter to contact Zwift and ask about what happened. "I was kicked out of the race due to my superhuman power. Can you fix the statistics for me?" He wrote wryly.
Among the many peculiarities of the cyclist who spends his vacation periods traveling, together with a friend, for example the towns of Spain by bicycle, some showed them his team a few days ago. Billiards, playing PS4, and the Rubik's Cube , which he is able to complete in less than a minute, are De Gendt's hobbies in these confined times. "I am addicted, in fact, I have a good collection," he confessed.
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