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bar said:The 30 year-old [Nocentini] is having a great early season this year,
having won the Grand Prix Lugano and placing second at the Tour du
Haut Var and Paris-Nice behind Rebellin. Asked what he changed in his
off-season preparation, Nocentini had a surprising answer. "It's the
first time that I stopped drinking wine... I never had much alcohol,
but in the beginning of the year, I decided I should quit drinking
wine altogether. So that's what I did."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2008/mar08/mar20news2
This deserves a more serious response than the first one I gave.
It's interesting. But these guys are so close to the line in terms of
weight and everything else that for them, a few pounds is the difference
they're trying to achieve.
A small behavioural change like dumping the, hm, 10,000 calories or so
that he might be drinking if he had a glass of wine with dinner each
night for 3 months would be worth 3 pounds. That's a pretty big deal for
a Euro-pro.
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