The road season must be over now with the Tour de France Saitama Criterium last Saturday. We have the race report, result and video from Japan, plus cyclo-cross from Zonhoven and Kruibeke and track action from the London ‘6 Days’. In other cycling news: Froome physiological data, host cities for the Amgen Tour of California, end of season report card from Lotto Soudal, Bora-Agron 18 finalise their 2016 roster, Canada 2016 race calendar and more video from Japan. Yes, a full EuroTrash Monday!TOP STORY: Chris Froome’s Physiological NumbersWhile in Japan for the Tour de France Saitama Criterium, Sky’s Chis Froome told a press conference that he (and the team) would release his physiological data that was taken during tests at the GSK Human Performance Lab back in August of this year. During the conference he commented: “The results will be published not long from now, before the end of the year. It’s not about proving anything, it’s more about understanding, but again you’ll have draw from it what you want.Now here is the problem; when he (or any other rider) releases performance data there is a Que of ‘experts’ ready to ‘draw from it what they want’ and normally there will be one of these ‘experts’ who wants to see his name in the newspapers. Last time it was Antoine Vayer who cast aspersions on Froome’s data from the 2013 Tour de France stage up Mont Ventoux, but that particular data was open to many different interpretations. We also must...
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