We had three HC climbs yesterday and last mountainous stage is about as tough, with two of the Out of Category ascents complimented by a First Category mountain, combined for a route that again has the potential to make or break this tour for the two main general classification favorites, Alberto Contador and my own ... |
22 July 2011
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Experts at the University of Granada, in Spain, have recently broken the main line of thought concerning the top performances achievable by a climber. The team, which worked with 16 high-level climbers, says that no other factors influence the performance level of an athlete more than his or her own level of exhausti... |
8 January 2010
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Anthropologists and archaeologists have been scouting early human dig sites around the world for clues as to when the change from the primate-like state to a biped humanoid happened. They know that, in the grand scheme of things, ancient humans gave up their ability to use all of their four limbs to climb trees, in f... |
14 April 2009
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Duke University has shown in a recent experiment that small primates use up roughly the same amount of energy while climbing as they do while walking. The new finding could reveal why the tiny human ancestors chose to live a life in the trees more than 65 million years ago. The study involved five different species o... |
16 May 2008
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As weird as it may sound, there are some robots on the market that can actually climb on the top of the roof and make your cat jumpinto the fireman's lap, of course. The original window-climbing robot is called Climb @ Tron EX, also known as the robot Explorer. The amazing thing with this kind of robot is its c... |
21 September 2007
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