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Cyclist Magazine

You snooze, you win

It is now clinically and academically accepted that while sleep is not fully understood, it eclipses almost every other factor in terms of importance for human health and performance. Witness Team Sky’s extraordinary efforts to transport a sleep-pod around Europe. They were the first in the pro peloton to have the epiphany that the team leader that sleeps best will almost certainly win a Grand Tour.

It’s such an important subject that over the next couple of issues I will look at the mysteries and mechanisms of sleep, and how a sleep

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