The latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is already inflicting its disruptions on pro cyclists, with three 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto Soudal riders forced to swap🎶 high-altitude Rwandan air for a 𒈔tent-based simulation. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Victor Campenaerts has made se𒁃veral forays to Africa for altitude training in♏ recent years, notably heading to Namibia to prepare for his successful 2019 UCI Hour Record Attempt. 

Ahead of the 2022 season, he had planned to travel to Rwanda with teammates 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Florian Vermeersch and Brent Van Moer, as an add-𓆏on to a ful🌠l Lotto Soudal training camp in Spain in January. 

However, travel restrictions and quarantine requirements have🧔 made ꧙the trip impossible. 

"We don't want to take any risks, certainly not now that we're in✨ wave 26," Campenaerts toldꦰ . 

"Currently, you also have to quarantine for three days when you arrive in Rwanda. If tha💛t continues, we will be further from home."

Instead, Campenaerts, Vermeersch, and Van Moer will leave the Lotto Soudal training camp on January 19 and head to a different hotel just🃏 down the road in south east Spain. 

They will simulate the effects of altitude training by sleeping and eating in hypoxic tents. Also known as hyperbaric chambers, these tents simulate the atmospheric pressure of high altitude, with the reduced oxygen satuꦏration forcing the body to produce more red blood cells. 

"We can spend our t🃏ime there at a simulated he𝐆ight. We have all booked our own room plus a fourth room that we can set up as a living room," Campenaerts explained.

"We will also eat in that living room, to live ♐at maximum height."

Campenaerts is no stranger to hypoxic tents. Two years ago, his winter regime consisted of sleeping at a virtual altitude of 4,700 metresꦏ and even spending an hour a day at 10,000 metres - more than a kilometre higher than the summit of Everest.

The use of altitude tents is𓂃 permitted by WADA, though they have caused concern in the past, with WADA considering banning them back in 2006. The organi🅰sation's ethics committee deemed them "probably contrary to the spirit of sport", though no action was taken. They have also been banned in certain countries. 

Campenaerts himself courted controversy two years ago when he suggested the practise enabled him "168澳洲5最新开奖结果:to feel like a rider who took EPO".