Eating during Tour de France is key to winning
Read full article: Eating during Tour de France is key to winning(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)BRUSSELS (AP) - At the Tour de France, there are two types of eating. And theres food for fuel, gobbled hungrily on and off the saddle by the riders whose chances of winning can be damaged by not eating scientifically. In finishing only 12th at the Tour of 2018, Fuglsang says he repeatedly felt himself running short of oomph, partly a consequence of unbalanced nutrition. The leader of the Astana team warmed up for his ninth Tour by winning the Dauphine stage race in June. Hesseling says his eating plans for Fuglsang are detailed right down to the hour for big mountain stages that come in weeks two and three of the Tour.