Team Sky released Chris Froome's diet, power output and heart rate information from the Giro d'Italia.GETTY IMAGES
Team Sky has taken the "unprecedented step of releasing a cache of data" detailing Chris Froome's diet, power output and heart rate from the Briton's victory in May's Giro d'Italia, according to Tom Fordyce of the BBC. Froome said, "I'm happy to share data to back up some of the performances we have done out on the roads." Team Sky said that Froome used salbutamol during the Giro "to manage his asthma." He neither applied for nor used any therapeutic use exemptions. Salbutamol, used through an inhaler, "does not require a TUE" (BBC, 7/4). In London, Josh Burrows reported Richie Porte, Froome's teammate "turned rival," dismissed the racing data as "fake news." The "most surprising revelation" was that Froome entered the Italian grand tour "slightly heavier than his ideal racing weight, under-ate in order to shed the excess over the first two weeks, then fuelled more conventionally in the final week." Porte: "I think it's fake news. They put that out there in the hope that guys read that and under-fuel. We're all professional athletes who know how to fuel. We don't need to read online what Sky say they're doing. I've been doing this long enough to know how to eat" (LONDON TIMES, 7/5).
