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Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
Replacing the 6,000 calories burned daily by a Tour de France rider, while negotiating the vaguaries and motorways of a 21-stage, 2,100 mile race is a formidable challenge.
With riders burning an average of 6,000 calories per day during the Tour (around three times more than a resting adult), Visma-Lease a Bike have even begun using artificial intelligence to help determine precisely how much - and what type of - food each individual cyclist should consume. While the methods used to generate precise nutritional needs vary between teams, all of them work to a broad five-meal daily plan of breakfast, pre-race snack, on-bike fuelling, recovery meal and dinner. The core feeding principles remain the same across the peloton, although they are tweaked depending on the upcoming day's requirements and whether the rider in question is a climber or a sprinter, a domestique or a general classification contender.
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