168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome has warned of the long-term effects of COVID🗹-19,▨ arguing that many riders are struggling for months post-infection and highlighting the potential risks to the heart.
The168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Israel-Premier Tech rider contracted COVID-19 for the first time at this year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, forcing him to leave the race af꧟ter 17 stages and curtailing what had seemed like significant progress in his long-term recovery from his 2019 crash.
The four-time yellow jersey winner returned to action at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España but, despite finishing the 21 stages, heไ largely struggled and only finished in the top 100 on five occa♋sions.
"I came out of the season not feeling good," Froome said in his latest YouTube video. "I feel I really needed a br💙eak. COVID really knocked me for six."
"I just wasn't able to come back from that. I never felt like I had lots of energy on the bike. I went to the Vuelta to build through the🔜 race but all the way through I felt flat, flat, flat."
Froome also argued that his "ꦺVO2max was definitely affected by COVID".
Froome went to Israel for physiological testing earlier in the off-season and registered a VO2 max of 72.1, normalised to 75 if he were at race weight. In 2015, when Froome underw🐼ent testing in a bid to quell suspicion surrounding his performances, he registered a score of 84.6 normalised to 88.2.
Froome highlighted what he saw as a cardiovascular hit from COVID-19, which he felt also extended to other "strange" heart problems. Pericarditis has been identified as a potential post-COVID heart issue, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tim Declercq, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lizzy Banks and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maghalie Rochette among those having to tℱake 𒁃time away from racing.
"There's definitely a heavy impact on the heart, having COVID. It's not just ﷺlike having th🔜e flu, like a lot of people think, especially for pro riders," Froome said.
"From those I've spoken to within the peloton, a lot of guys are really struggling with after-effects two or three months down the line - feel♛ing fatigue, feel🌜ing as if they don't have the same energy levels, strange heart rate readings as well."
"It was good to goℱ to Israel, do a whole load of physiological tests, go and check VO2 max, which was definitely affected by having COVID. So some heart checks which was important as well ju🌼st to check that everything was all right."
Froome, who has also travelled to Singapore, Japan, UAE, and Miami in recent weeks, recently returned to training in Monaco and is joining Israel-Premier Tech's pre-season training camp in Spain this week. He has hinted that he could start 2023 at the Tour Down Under but Israel-Premier Tech's race schedule is still up in the air as they prepare to drop out of the WorldTour.&nb🔯sp;
"It's great to get back into regular training," Froome said. "My body feels so much cleaner, everything's starting to work better, I'm less sluggish, more energy. I don't know if it's just those endorphins that I really missed but it feels great to b🐽e back training."
