Diversions: Drugs and Power at the Tour de France

By Paul Kedrosky · Thursday, July 16, 2009 ·

Great and quant-friendly post up at Sports Scientists mulling the relationship among power output, drug use, and Tour de France climbing rates over the last decade. The conclusion -- alongside freakish power output figures over time -- is the unsurprising and sad one that performance-enhancing drug usage remain a problem in the world’s greatest cycling race.