With European temperatures soaring this year, and stage 3 of the Tour de France already in jeopardy thanks to wildfires, it’s no surprise to see teams and riders employing every trick in the book to keep cool. Core temperature has a huge impact on performance, with most riders adding body temperature sensors into their burgeoning repertoire of metrics.
A cool drink doesn’t really cut it nowadays, though it does help (either when ingested or simply dumped over one’s head); nowadays there are plenty of other ways to beat the heat, even if the UCI has decided to ban the good old fashioned ice sock (though sort of incidentally, through the ‘no stuffing anything down your jersey’ rule which we suspect won’t be enforced on road stages).
