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Saddling up on the high seas – the cyclists powering 50-MPH yachts

A world champion cyclist has swapped the velodrome for the cramped deck of the fastest yacht in the world. Why?

"It's RPM [revolutions per minute], power, watts, cadence, shaking, high turbulence, getting punch-drunk by whacking your head on the walls and trying to look at your numbers on your screen, and listening to all the comms of the sailors and what they're doing and trying to anticipate your energy levels coming up to the next manoeuvre." A former Olympic gold medal-winning rower, having been part of Great Britain's eight at Rio 2016, Gotrel has found it a "big challenge" to train a different muscle group, even if recreationally he considered himself a cyclist already. "I had a chat with [sprinter Elia] Viviani about some sprinting technique, and then there are Filippo Ganna and Dan Bigham who have been really good on some of the strategy and fuelling things and what they did to push on the hour record," says Gotrel

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