Wesley Stevenson

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More or Less · WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France · 19 Jul 2014 podcast

I mean, the mountains in the Alps and the Pyrenees look pretty mean and require 30 to 40 minutes of solid climbing. matched

So you might think the man with the muscles would thrive in this environment. matched

To answer this, you need to turn to a bit of physics and the two elements to cycling which determine the speed. matched

But why would it be a hindrance? matched

Bigger muscles produce more power, don't they? matched

And for sprinters, they need muscles for the burst. matched

The sprints at the end of each stage are often won in the last 10 to 15 seconds. matched

So is the best physique to win the yellow jersey somewhere in between the two? matched

Well, that's not so easy to say, because Paolo Minasper told me that depends on the course. matched

So the expert climbers sometimes do well and other years it's more suited to the time trialists. matched

One thing we do know is that sprinters won't win. matched

If you look at stage 10 of this year's tour, the first of the really mountainous stages, the sprinter Marcel Kittel was 32 minutes down on the winner of that stage, Vincenzo Nibali. matched

Compare that to one of the stages that Kittel won and Nibali crosses the line just seconds behind. matched

And that's why Nibali's a contender for the yellow jersey and Kittel isn't. matched

Now that's the music of Beethoven evoking thunder and lightning in his Sixth Symphony. matched

And we turn to an item that featured on BBC Radio in the UK recently about how solar activity might be triggering lightning strikes on Earth. matched

Anything that can help us predict the severity of lightning has got to be useful. matched

Something like 24,000 people a year worldwide get killed by lightning. matched

24,000 a year? matched

Good Lord. matched

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