Feet in the dish. Stunning performances from Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard The last few years have not been without raising some questions. How can we explain such performance gaps with the rest of the peloton? carbon monoxide topic came on the table, as a track to explore. The Dane assumes that his team Visma – Lease a Bike uses it " for measure blood volume and the total mass of hemoglobin ». He explains this in an interview with Monde : "We inhale the carbon monoxide for the first time, before carrying out a training course at altitude. At the end of this, we repeat the operation to calculate our maximum oxygen absorption capacity » A simple informative objective, therefore. On the other hand, the double winner of the Tour de France (2022 and 2023) believes that competitors are a little more vicious. « Some teams misuse it by regularly inhaling low doses of carbon monoxide, which causes a significant gain in performance in their runners. This is not fair and it should be that the World Anti-Doping Agency bans it », he says. The World Conference on Doping in Sport, scheduled for December, may be the one to decide.
